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Broken Country

by Clare Leslie Hall

First love and buried history

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First love and buried history

A death in the village frames a story about how unresolved attachments can reach into a settled family life. Beth’s present with her husband Frank is disrupted when Gabriel Wolfe, her first love, returns with his son. The novel moves between past and present as old jealousies and secrets resurface, linking Beth’s earlier relationship to the choices she faces now. Family ties, grief, and the consequences of first love shape the conflict, while the opening question of who killed the farmer gives the story a mystery thread.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in family-centered fiction about past relationships and their effects on the present.
  • Readers who enjoy novels combining a love-triangle premise with a murder mystery.
  • Readers seeking a story that shifts between past and present.

Themes

First love and its lasting consequencesFamily relationshipsGrief and lossJealousy and buried secretsChoice and identity

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Book overview

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A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.




"The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him."




Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager--the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.




As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel's life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.




A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.

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