Leaving Eden
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Last published Mon, Nov 5, 2018
Wartime journalist, Lauren Bello, heads to war to escape her famous father's overpowering shadow but discovers war to be the hell he had always warned her about. It's 2017, Lauren has spent almost ten years covering war and running away from her past in Eden, Illinois. With her father gone and her inheritance spent, she has no choice but to return to Eden to sell the only thing she has left: her childhood home. The money from the sale will allow her to remain in Iraq to finish writing a story that will finally forge her own destiny.
Before she heads back, she must help remodel the house as part of the sale. She works alongside Captain Rick Pruitt, a Marine Veteran with a disdain for civilian journalists.
Can Lauren hold up to her part of the deal or will she run from it like she runs from everything else?
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