Run away
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hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn
and Everlee Doherty is truly a woman scorned.
after she finds her already abusive husband sleeping with multiple other women she decides enough is enough and takes her infant son and runs.
after five years and many failures of settling down in her home country,She flees to her roots in Ireland and settles down with distant relatives, colleen and Cian, who seem to be hiding secrets of their own.
she's finally feeling like she belongs when she stumbles upon the world of magic and realizes just how close her ancestors, and cousins, are to the world of the mystical.
Suddenly she's burning with new power at her fingertips, and burning within for a mysterious man who seems to have too many secrets to count in those dark Blue eyes. Can she sort out this new way of life before everything comes crumbling down on her?
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