The Fated Escape

The Fated Escape

Author: Maren Ellison Listening Length: 8h 16m
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Beckett McCarthy no longer feels the everyday magic his beloved Gran taught him to notice, and a summer in Serendipity Springs promises little beyond a change of scenery. Keeley Roberts upends that expectation when she falls into his life during a chaotic first meeting in a stuck elevator. Enchanted by his beautiful, f...

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Beckett

“Are you trying to replicate Jesus’s miracle of feeding the five thousand?” Keeley asks.

We’re sitting on a bench in Oldford Park, right by a pond full of ducks that are staring at me intently. Forget my earlier notion that birds don’t stare at people; these ducks are mega zoned in on us and look ready to strike at any moment.

“Are you sure that it’s safe to sit here?” I shift on the bench uncomfortably as I gaze at the army of ducks lining the edge of the pond, beady eyes trained on us. “And ‘thank you’ is usually the appropriate response when someone brings you lunch.”