We Could've Been More
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Eloise never imagined her life would be defined by pain and fear. For three harrowing years, she endured her husband Matthew's abuse, until one fateful night when she made the boldest decision of her life:
Escape
No plan. No direction. Just escape.
Leaving behind her past, her pain, and everything she once knew, she sets off on a journey into the unknown, hoping to find peace... or at least herself.
Nathan Miles has always lived in the shadows of hospital rooms and city smog. With a critical heart condition and an uncertain future, his parents move him to North Carolina, hoping the slower pace will give him the rest-and the life-he's been deprived of. Behind his cocky, charming exterior is a boy who's tired of being treated like he's fragile. He just wants to live.
She's broken and running from the past.
He's hopeful, yet haunted by the future.
Neither expected to find the other.
But sometimes, the most unexpected connections are the ones that change everything.
She's shattered.
He's healing.
Two lives on opposite ends of pain and hope. But fate has a strange way of tying broken souls together. Maybe, just maybe, they can save each other.
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