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Running Away With a Stranger - Softcover

Hesperia, Marcos

 
9798182728690: Running Away With a Stranger

Synopsis

Elena Bennett is supposed to walk down the aisle and marry the man her powerful family has chosen for her. Instead, minutes before the ceremony, she discovers a devastating secret: her father has drained the trust fund meant to secure her future, and her marriage to Preston Hayes is nothing more than a desperate financial arrangement designed to protect the family empire. Realizing she is being used as collateral, Elena does the unthinkable-she runs.Still wearing her wedding dress, carrying the evidence of her father's crimes, Elena jumps into the first taxi she sees and tells the stranger behind the wheel to drive. She has no destination, no luggage, and no idea what comes next. All she knows is that she needs to get as far away from her old life as possible.The driver, Daniel, asks no unnecessary questions. Calm, observant, and unexpectedly kind, he gives Elena something her family never has: the freedom to make her own choices. As the miles pass, the terrified runaway bride begins to discover that the stranger beside her feels strangely familiar.Then Elena learns the truth.Daniel isn't truly a stranger. He is connected to the forgotten letters she wrote as a lonely girl to a mysterious boy with ink-stained hands-the boy her family forced her to forget. The letters reveal a past Elena never understood and a love that may have been waiting for her all along.But escaping her family is only the beginning. Elena must decide whether to return and confront the people who controlled her life, expose the truth behind the stolen fortune, and risk everything for the man who has quietly become her safe place.What begins as a desperate flight becomes a journey toward identity, freedom, and love. Elena eventually realizes that home isn't the place her family built for her. It's the life she chooses-and the person she chooses to share it with.

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