General Rachlav of Russia made his career as a powerful military leader that hated what America stood for and what it took from him. From childhood to adulthood, Rachlav did what he did based on emotion and personal assumptions. The American Colonel Braden became the person he was by taking a risk with love, and then running from the pain that it sometimes causes. Both of these men go beyond the call of duty to do what they feel is right for family and country. Broken Bars goes into the life of everyday people by showing their highs and lows of life before the devastating war in the United States. As the story progresses, all of their lives are somehow directly changed by the risks that the U.S. and Russia are willing to take with human life. War is fought on U.S. soil between Russia and the United States. Russia devises a plan to hurt America by attacking maximum-security prisons and releasing the hardened criminals onto the society that locked them away. The only effective way for America to stop the threat is by attacking those same prisons first and executing all of the maximum-security inmates before they can join the forces of Russia and wreak havoc on the innocent people of America. The thought of a major war between two great nations is a scary scenario that may indeed happen one day. The more frightening part is that Broken Bars takes that scare level up a notch by turning the laws that were put into place to protect the American way of life and using them against the American people. Who will pay for the crimes against two great nations, and who will survive the life changing events as this violent love story unfolds?