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At 16 ,Ellie’s life was not her own. She lived under the shadow of her father’s stern rule in a small town where gossip traveled faster than the wind. Shy, self-conscious, and struggling with her weight, Ellie often felt invisible—or worse, like an embarrassment to her family. Her father saw her not as a daughter to cherish, but as a burden to be dealt with.
Then, one afternoon, he announced a decision that shattered her world: Ellie was to marry Caleb, a rugged widower who lived deep in the mountains with his two young children. Twice her age, Caleb was a man she’d never met. Her father’s reasoning was cold and simple—Caleb needed a wife, and Ellie, he said, “needed a purpose.”
A Marriage She Never Wanted
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