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Before We Were Broken: A Christian Psychological Suspense Series
Paperback
Series: The Before We Were, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 16 2026
Pages: 516
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She survived the crash, but someone doesn't want her to remember why.
When Reese Delaney wakes in a North Carolina hospital with no memory of the past seventy-two hours, her husband, beloved pastor Jensen Thorn, is at her bedside. He says she lost control on a mountain road in the rain. He says he found her and called for help. He says he loves her.
He has been saying the right things for eleven years. But her body tells a different story.
The bruises don't match the accident. A text on her phone, sent by Reese herself, at 1:47 in the morning, reads: He's going to k*ll me. The nurses call Jensen a devoted husband. The congregation calls him a man of God. And somewhere in the wreckage of a memory she cannot reach, a woman who was smarter and braver than anyone knew left a trail of evidence for the woman who would wake up without her.
Reese just has to remember in time.
As her memories return in shattering, terrifying fragments - a locked office, a locked safe, a wall her body remembers before her mind does - she begins to see the marriage that existed behind the sermons, the isolation, the control, and the theology weaponized into a cage so beautifully constructed that the congregation gave it a standing ovation every Sunday morning.
And she begins to understand that the man who quotes Scripture from the pulpit and holds her hand at her bedside is the same man who planned, on a rainy Tuesday night in the Blue Ridge Mountains, to make sure she never woke up at all.
With a detective who believes what the bruises say, an attorney who calls the psychiatric petition exactly what it is, and a shelter director named Phee who holds the door open at midnight and says no one is getting through this door tonight - Reese Delaney is doing something she hasn't done in eleven years.
She is fighting back. But the clock is running. The evidence is fragile. The church is powerful. And Jensen Thorn has been managing his narrative for a very long time.
He's counting on her silence.
She's counting on the truth.
Before We Were Broken is a propulsive, emotionally devastating Christian psychological suspense novel set against the stunning backdrop of the North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains. Clean. Gripping. Deeply human. And impossible to put down.
For readers who believe that faith should protect the vulnerable, and that silence is never the same as peace.
Book One of THE BEFORE SERIES. The story has only just begun.
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