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Broken Country
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  • paperback· 351 pp9781420520729
First published 2025

Broken Country

By Clare Leslie Hall

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Behind closed doors

*“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.

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Second ChanceRelationshipSmall Town RomanceSettingChildhood Friends to LoversRelationshipForbidden LoveRelationshipSlow BurnRelationshipSecret RelationshipRelationshipWidower HeroCharacter
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