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The Trail of Karen Baker | Wattys2016

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Reads 1,146
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Parts 28
Time 3h 51m

LailaDarwish2000

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Her name was Karen Baker. 

Her son was found sleeping in a cot in Covent Garden, with nothing but a carton box, a necklace, and a wrist band that read: Aiden Nolan Parks.

                                ......................

The bus screeches to a halt in front of an old, worn out house in the English countryside, in a village in Suffolk, known as Woodbridge. Aiden's suitcase rolls behind him as he hops off with his 'mother' in front.

                             .........................

Somewhere in this story, Cassidy Buckingham watches the new boy, supposedly known as her cousin, take over a room in her house. And somewhere even further, the story of Karen Baker starts to surface. Together, Cassidy and Aiden put their fingers on the first threads of Aiden's past, and as the threads interweave, the trail of Karen Baker materialises. 

The trail that leads them to the truth.All Rights Reserved

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Hearts On The Line

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