Broken country

Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return, and now Beth sits watching the man she loves stand trial for murder. Behind that courtroom lies the heady summer she was seventeen, when Gabriel made her think and feel differently, then left to become the person his mother expected him to be.

Frank picked up the pieces, and together they built a home and raised a son, a life Beth felt sure was the right one. Ten years on, Gabriel comes back, the connection is instant, and every certainty she had begins to give way. Clare Leslie Hall's debut, a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, is a love story set in quiet countryside that carries the tension of a thriller. It belongs with anyone who likes their romance with secrets, hard choices and real consequences.