Cracked earth

IT WAS A SECRET LOVE BEFORE IT BECAME A PUBLIC SCANDAL.
Everyone in the village said Gabriel's return wouldn't lead to anything good. And now, as Beth watches the man she loves stand trial for murder, she can't help but think they were right.
She was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. That intoxicating, intense summer, Gabriel made her think, see, and feel differently. She believed it was the beginning of a wonderful love story that would last forever. But when Gabriel left to become what his mother expected him to be, Beth was shattered.
Frank was the man who picked up her pieces. Together, they built a home very different from the one she had imagined with Gabriel. And there was a time – several years, in fact – when she was happy. Watching her husband and son cross their farm on the tractor, she felt very certain that, despite everything that had happened, this was the life she was meant to live.
But Gabriel returned, and Beth's conviction about who she was and what she wanted crumbled. Even after ten years, their attraction was instantaneous. She knew it was wrong, and she knew many people would be hurt. But how could she resist giving her first love a second chance?
A love story with the pulse of a thriller, THE FRACTURED EARTH is a captivating novel about impossible choices and their devastating consequences.