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

When I was a teen, my morning routine was to wake my younger siblings and make sure that they brushed their teeth and put on clean(ish) school uniforms. Mam was long gone to work by the time we woke up, and I liked to let Gran—who was getting up there in age by that point—sleep a little longer.

So, I made it my job to make sure the five of us got to school in one piece. Aoife was old enough to help, and she’d braid Niamh’s hair while I made tea and toast for everyone and checked to make sure the younger ones had put their homework in their school bags.

While my siblings ate their breakfast, I’d assemble five brown-bagged lunches, and we’d set off—Aoife to the girls’ grammar school on the hill, where she had a scholarship, Eoin and Niamh to the local primary school a short walk away, and Callan and I to the comprehensive school we’d have to take two buses to get to after dropping the wee ones off.