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The Broken
Ben Yeager didn’t expect to die, but death was not the end when he was resurrected with the ability to heal others. Ben was a broken man, who had lost almost everything that mattered to him, and he welcomed death, but he was cheated of this release.
In The Broken, average people do phenomenal things in a world that does not know how to accept the phenomenal. With Ben’s new abilities he is pushed into fame and pressured to be a hero. He had failed repeatedly in life, but he did struggle to do what was right, even when he was unsure what that was, but he knew he was far from a hero, the thing the world needed most.
After his resurrection, defeats continue, friends fail him, and the world turns against him. What should have been a gift became a burden. Will Ben continue to help others? Will he return to a wife who loves him? Or will he deny everyone to save himself? His decisions may surprise you in this novel of magical realism and possibilities.
In The Broken, average people do phenomenal things in a world that does not know how to accept the phenomenal. With Ben’s new abilities he is pushed into fame and pressured to be a hero. He had failed repeatedly in life, but he did struggle to do what was right, even when he was unsure what that was, but he knew he was far from a hero, the thing the world needed most.
After his resurrection, defeats continue, friends fail him, and the world turns against him. What should have been a gift became a burden. Will Ben continue to help others? Will he return to a wife who loves him? Or will he deny everyone to save himself? His decisions may surprise you in this novel of magical realism and possibilities.
325 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 23, 2022
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Scott Thompson
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Georgia Author of the Year nominee, for first novel, Scott Thompson was born and raised in the American South where his stories take place. His debut novel, Young Men Shall See, is a coming of age story set in the 1980s in a time of quiet social change and examines the generation in the South after the Civil Rights Era. Eight Days, released 2016 takes place in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, and involves a man who has died, but first must face his regrets and mistakes before finding eternity.
Thompson lives in the Carolina Low Country with his family. He is the winner of the Great American Novel contest in literature for 2010.
"Scott Thompson’s Eight Days earns and deserves a place on everyone’s bookshelf. Rich in character and subject matter, it is a must read, quite possibly a game changer."
— Teri Pietila, Book Reviewer
Review of Young Men Shall See
“This book is a vivid slice of growing up Southern in a time of racial truce if not yet true peace with honor. It's a fresh, honest look at that life in the 80s.”
— Richard Monaco, Two Time Pulitzer nominated author of the Parsival books
Georgia Author of the Year nominee, for first novel, Scott Thompson was born and raised in the American South where his stories take place. His debut novel, Young Men Shall See, is a coming of age story set in the 1980s in a time of quiet social change and examines the generation in the South after the Civil Rights Era. Eight Days, released 2016 takes place in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, and involves a man who has died, but first must face his regrets and mistakes before finding eternity.
Thompson lives in the Carolina Low Country with his family. He is the winner of the Great American Novel contest in literature for 2010.
"Scott Thompson’s Eight Days earns and deserves a place on everyone’s bookshelf. Rich in character and subject matter, it is a must read, quite possibly a game changer."
— Teri Pietila, Book Reviewer
Review of Young Men Shall See
“This book is a vivid slice of growing up Southern in a time of racial truce if not yet true peace with honor. It's a fresh, honest look at that life in the 80s.”
— Richard Monaco, Two Time Pulitzer nominated author of the Parsival books
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