Escape Across the Pond
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What's a girl to do when she loses the only family she has left and finds herself in an abusive relationship she can't get out of? Her bestie helps her to flee the country of course.
Coraline Wilcox, an accomplished baker in New York, thinks she's getting a new start in the UK when she escapes a relationship she wishes she could forget. But once she arrives, stepping outside her comfort zone proves to be much more difficult than she thought. With the help of her bubbly new friend, Charlotte, and the intrigue of the dark and mysterious, tattooed stranger working at the garage next door to her bakery, things are starting to look up.
Will Cora get the happily ever after that she's always dreamed of in this quaint English town or will "he" come to drag her straight back into the nightmare she just escaped?
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