The Fated Escape

The Fated Escape

Author: Maren Ellison Listening Length: 8h 16m

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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Keeley

I got set up on a blind date once in my freshman year of college.

It didn’t go well. He was a preppy, clean-cut type—which I have no problem with, in theory—but he seemed to have a bit of a problem with the way I looked.

In my defense, I was nineteen. A broke student who only knew other broke students. Every date I’d been on up to that point had been sharing popcorn at a movie or getting cheeseburger spring rolls at The Cheesecake Factory and forgoing a main course or dessert in case the guy wanted to go Dutch—because I had to make sure my checking account would survive my half of the check.