Broken is a word romance uses often, and usually as a promise rather than a description: something damaged at the outset, mended by the close, with the mending as the whole point. Mya More builds an entire sequence on it. All Her Broken Pieces opens The Broken Series, and the title sets the terms before a word of the story has been heard.
Our catalogue files the work under romance and general fiction, a pairing that usually indicates a story more interested in character than in convention. Nine and a half hours supports that reading. This is a full-length novel with room for a relationship to develop at something like a believable pace, and for the damage named in the title to be given weight rather than waved away.