Published: March 4, 2025
Length: 320 pages
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Historical Fiction
Characters: Gabriel, Frank and Beth
POV: Beth’s, 1st person

Content:
꧁•⊹٭ love triangle ༊*·˚. presente and past timeline ༊*·˚. mystery ٭⊹•꧂
⚠️ 🅆🄰🅁🄽🄸🄽🄶 ⚠️
∗ infidelity ∗

Review

Although the writing was in fact amazing and compelling, and it did have me turning pages, I wasn’t completely in love with the storyline. I’m doing my best at not being so judgmental when reviewing this. So bear with me! 😅

If life taught me a lesson is that you can’t judge others when you’ve never been in their shoes. Also, be careful of throwing stones, we all live in a glass house too. We are all human beings after all. We make mistakes, we make poor decisions, we make others suffer. The bottom line is, did you learn your lesson?

That being said, it was still not easy for me to read about Beth’s story because Frank was a very good man, a too good husband to her and also a good dad. He loved his wife with all his heart. He would give her the moon if he could to. Damn! He gave her more than that. And that’s what makes SO hard for me not to judge Beth. I believe her vulnerability made her take pretty poor decisions in life. And sadly, those decisions affected everyone around her. However, she’s learned her lesson and that’s life. Learn with our mistakes and not repeat them. I’m genuinely glad she’s got another chance for happiness. We can see she is a different Beth after everything and because of that this book was worth it. It definitely evoked strong emotions and made me cry in the end. I wonder how long it will be before my heart lets this one go… I’m giving this all the stars regardless

“Lives should be measured in intensity.
Remember mine
For its glory-stretch of furious light
and wondrous beauty.”

“This is a love story with too many beginnings. I refuse to think about how it is going to end.”

“You have to fool yourself into thinking you already are the thing you want to become.”

Blurb

“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.