The Care of Broken Things

Samuel Fuller has survived five years in prison by needing no one. Because after a lifetime of being preyed upon, he knows better than to let anyone come close.

Then Eli arrives like sunlight through bulletproof glass.

A wrongfully convicted pediatrician, and unbearably kind, Eli is everything Samuel knows to avoid. So when he steps in to protect the man, it's supposed to be a one-time act of mercy.

But Eli's husband has another plan.

Nathaniel—who looks at Samuel like he's something more than a convict—makes a request that shatters everything:

"Be his prison husband. Love him where I can't."

It's supposed to be an act. But Eli notices when Samuel hasn't eaten. Nathaniel treats him like someone worth coming back for. And the harder Samuel tries to keep his heart out of it, the more fiercely they insist he belongs with them.

In a place where caring about anyone can get you killed, loving them may cost Samuel the brutal little peace he's built—and force him to believe in a future beyond the prison walls.

The Care of Broken Things is a devastatingly tender MMM prison romance about trauma, chronic illness, found family, and three men learning that none of them has to survive alone.