Broken - Mary Brock Jones

A fabled, earth analogue paradise or a planet facing disaster?

Arcadia is the most perfect Earth Analogue world in all the Alliance - a world on which plenty are eager to settle in place of the present owners if they keep abusing their world. That's what the Galactic Alliance has threatened, and the Alliance never makes false promises. Arcadians must change how they treat their world, or they will be removed. But too many Arcadians refuse to believe the threat is real, and a band of conspirators will use any means possible to hold onto their wealth and profits, including kidnap, blackmail, maybe even assassination. The Federal Marshals ask Cumchdach den Coille to infiltrate the conspiracy and expose it.

Cumchdach has known since their teens that he'd marry his beloved Anna one day. But not that conspiracies and business fraud would come between them. When Anna's father defrauds Cumchdach's family company, Anna leaves him, taking their baby.

As one of the leading botanists on Arcadia, Anna den Coille specialises in how plants work together and within their ecosystem to best thrive. Work needed by her government to help fix their world. Then she is betrayed by her father, which doesn't surprise her. But Cumchdach's betrayal threatens to destroy her. Even worse, her snarled up family connections and special skills make her a target for their enemies.

Can Anna and Cumchdach survive long enough to expose their enemies and save their world?

As for their marriage.