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  • The Runaway

  • Shipwreck Key Book Two
  • By: Stephanie Taylor
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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The Runaway

By: Stephanie Taylor
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Publisher's summary

When a woman needs to flee a bad marriage, it doesn’t matter that she’s the wife of the former Vice President, it only matters that she escapes...

Sunday Bond longs for a life far from Washington D.C., and far from the husband who has kept her in a gilded cage for too long, locked up there with only his dark secrets to keep her company. When Sunday’s best friend, the former First Lady, moves south to Shipwreck Key, Sunday goes for a visit and decides to stay.

The remote island off the coast of Florida is the perfect place to avoid the world’s prying eyes and to forget about her husband’s many indiscretions. The warm ocean breeze and the vibrant colors of the tropical flora embrace Sunday, and the island holds the promise of endless possibilities for a woman who is finally free.

As Sunday settles into her new life on Shipwreck Key, she can’t help but feel a flutter in her heart whenever she encounters a Secret Service agent named Henry Banks. It seems like every time she’s washing dishes at her sink, he’s running shirtless down the beach where she can see him, and every time she ends up in a compromising position, Banks is there to save the day. Before long, Sunday isn’t just daydreaming about Banks—she’s actively seeking out his company and blurring the lines between his job and her desires.

But as Sunday begins to explore her own feelings and to enjoy her freedom, she’s hit with the weight of her soon-to-be ex-husband’s ire: Peter Bond wants to run for office again, but in order to do that, he needs to bury his own secrets under the wreckage of Sunday’s life, and he’s determined to throw her under any bus he can find in order to save face politically. This leaves Sunday in a quandary: go back to the tiny fishing village of her youth and face her own demons before Peter shares them with the world, or ignore his threats and accept the possibility that her children will find out things about her that she never wanted them to know?

Caught in a whirlwind of emotions and experiences, trapped under the weight of her previous life and the choices she made, Sunday’s past begins to bear down on her. She doesn’t know whether coming clean will bring her the happiness she’s wanted for so long, but she does know that until she returns to her hometown and confronts her own past, she won’t ever truly be free…free to live without Peter and his dark secrets, free to love again, and free to share her full self with her two daughters.

The Shipwreck Key Series

The women of Shipwreck Key are strong and resilient, and they all want the same things: happiness, friendship, and love. They bond through their book club meetings and their shared love of sisterhood, supporting one another through thick and thin, and honoring each other’s unique stories and personalities.

The Shipwreck Key series will be eight books long and will have intertwining stories and characters, both sad and hopeful moments, beautiful friendships, romances involving women of all ages, and plenty of laughter.

The series launches in June of 2023, and all books will be available in both digital and paperback formats.

Book One: The Castaway--out June 30, 2023

Book Two: The Runaway--out July 31, 2023

Book Three: The Throwaway--out August 31, 2023

Book Four: The Hideaway--out October 27, 2023

Book Five: The Breakaway--out December 19, 2023

Book Six: The Takeaway--out February 23, 2024

Book Seven: The Fadeaway--out April 26, 2024

Book Eight: The Holiday--out June 21, 2024

This Women's Fiction series is all about love, life, and found friendship on a tropical island. For fans of Jan Moran, Hope Holloway, Rachel Hanna, and Maggie Miller.

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Narration is ...

I think this is a great story and I would love to hear the whole series but the narration kills it for me. Guess I will wait to see if it eventually will be offered with human narration. May I suggest Erin Bennett? She is awesome!!

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Story was great

I loved the story but these books read be computers are just awful the monotony and the skipped words were so bad

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Good story about the women

Did not like the narrative voice it was hard to listen too but it was interesting

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