Finalist for the 2015 Wishing Shelf Awards. Goodreads Reviews

“Broken is graphic, shocking, raw, disturbing, intense, appalling, shameful, and so very, very sad.”

“This story has the complexity of The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, but written with the flow of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.”

“Your heart will have been on such an emotional rollercoaster by the end of this book, it may take some time to learn how to beat steady again.”

“There are a few really great lines/thoughts here. Little treasures I wanted to underline or come back to later. Some really great words.”

“Hypnotic and addicting.”

“Heart wrenching.”

“Raw.”

And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.
Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, “Lies.”

When William, a young journalist, seeks out Elizabeth, an acclaimed author, in hopes to write her biography, the recluse grants him twenty-four hours to hear her story. What unfolds are a wide range of traumas that teeter on the edge of macabre and psychological thriller.

While toggling the lines of insanity, Elizabeth examines her neglect, rape, abuse, torture, and pedophilia-filled past. The more Elizabeth delves into her psyche, the more William witnesses the multiple mental conditions Elizabeth developed to cope with a life without love, comfort, protection, trust, physical human contact, affection, therapy, or medication.

With the use of existentialism, I wrote Broken in an attempt to philosophical determine what I had become and why. Instead, I found the awareness I needed to seek help. Broken is the road map I took to arrive at “Awareness.”