It's 11:40 at night. Lily has just found out Mason plays for the other school, the episode ends on the look on her face, and the app tells you the next one unlocks in six hours or for a subscription. So you open a new tab and type "broken evelyn miller" hoping someone, somewhere, has the whole thing. That search is how most people land on an Evelyn Miller author page, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a bio padded with adjectives.
The straight answer: Evelyn Miller is the author of Broken, the coming-of-age romance that took off on Galatea and later got a Kindle edition on Amazon under the label "Book 1 of the Galatea Stories." We could also verify My Girl, a college romance, under her name on Galatea. That's the confirmed list. NanoReads doesn't host either book. What we do host is a shelf of contemporary and YA serials built from the same parts, all free to start, further down this page.
What Broken is, without inventing anything
Working only from the publisher's own description: the summer before senior year, Lily catches her boyfriend cheating. She meets Mason, who is broken in a different direction, and the two of them spend the summer working through a bucket list of promises to each other. The fling ends badly when they learn they're from rival schools on rival sports teams. Then an accident resets everyone's priorities, and the back half of the book is about whether two kids can stay together when their friends and their teams would rather they didn't.
That's a Romeo-and-Juliet frame with letterman jackets instead of house crests, and it explains the Galatea numbers. The rival-camp setup gives every chapter a built-in reason for someone to object, which is exactly what an app that sells the next episode wants. The Goodreads listing for the Kindle edition sits around 4.1 stars from roughly 1,400 ratings; a second, older Goodreads entry for the same title sits lower, around 3.5. I'd read the gap as the difference between readers who came from the app already hooked and readers who bought it cold.
Why "read online free" is a trickier search than it looks
Galatea's model is the reason the search exists. The first episodes cost nothing, then a timer or a subscription gates the rest, and the timer is calibrated to hit right after a cliffhanger. Sites promising the full text of Broken for free are, in my experience, either scraping it or pretending to have it. We're not going to link any of them.
Here's the more useful move. The thing that hooked you was a structure, not a specific author: a heroine who has just been wronged, a boy from the wrong side of a line, one summer to figure it out. That structure is common, and a few reader-written serials on NanoReads run it with the first chapter free and no timer. If you'd rather be matched than browse, the read-next quiz asks about mood and heat and hands you a title in under a minute.
🏫Four serials with Broken's bones
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The Love Between Seasons
The closest rival-camp match, dressed in fantasy. Four seasonal kingdoms in a fragile truce, a friends-to-lovers pair whose families sit on opposite sides of it, and a forbidden-love tag doing the same work Broken's rival schools do. Tagged YA romance; sweet rather than spicy, so read it for the longing.
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Heartbeat On The Run
For readers who wanted more of the "just been wronged" opening. Davina is on the run from a controlling, violent husband and lands in Harmony, a small cove town where the locals notice everything. Second-chance and friends-to-lovers tags, 25 chapters, and a dark-romance flag on the abuse backstory, so the first chapters are heavier than Broken's.
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The Heir I Was Told To Hate
Rival families, adult version. Silas and Maya are heirs to two shipping empires whose billionaire parents are at war, and their romance has to stay secret or it costs both of them the inheritance. Twenty chapters, high heat (it carries an erotica tag), so this is the grown-up cousin of Broken rather than a sibling.
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Across the Headset
Slow-burn contemporary with a gimmick: she meets a British stranger through a war-game headset and the relationship builds voice-first. Twenty-five chapters. Lighter on plot than the others, but the tension-and-humor register is the nearest thing here to Broken's summer-fling mood.
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One honesty note on the shelf. Two of those four sit well above Broken's heat. Broken is a coming-of-age romance and reads that way; The Heir I Was Told To Hate does not. Our smut glossary entry explains how we label heat, and the new adult romance list is the right next stop if you want the college-age version of this feeling. For the older second-chance angle, the second chance hub has the wider shelf.
Questions people ask about Evelyn Miller
Is Broken by Evelyn Miller free to read?
Partly. Galatea, the app that made it viral, opens the first episodes free and then meters the rest behind a timer or a subscription. The Kindle edition on Amazon is a paid ebook. NanoReads does not host Broken or any other Evelyn Miller title.
What is Broken about?
Per the publisher's listing: Lily catches her boyfriend cheating the summer before senior year and meets Mason, who is carrying his own damage. They spend the summer on a bucket list of promises, fall for each other, then discover they go to rival schools with rival sports teams. An accident late in the story forces the question of whether they can stay together. It's Book 1 of what Amazon labels the Galatea Stories series.
What else has Evelyn Miller written?
The romance titles we could verify under her name on Galatea and Amazon are Broken and My Girl (a college romance, also on Galatea). Goodreads lists thirty-odd books under "Evelyn Miller", but most of those are dog-breed manuals and academic titles by other people with the same name. We haven't listed them here because they aren't hers.
Is there anything like Broken on NanoReads?
Yes, and free to start: the four serials on this page are contemporary and young-adult romances with the same summer-fling, rival-camp, or second-chance bones. None of them is Broken, and we say so plainly.