β Scribed by Roopa Farooki
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On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking.Β Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life.Β Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk it all. Β But why?Β Waiting for her is a messy past and a perfect past lover she had once abandoned without even saying goodbye β a story left unfinished β until now.
Aruna is not running away from home, she is running back to the home she always had, before it became impossible for her to stay.Β Before her father, the only family sheβd ever known, passed away.Β Before she tried, and failed, to create a life and a family with her best friend and lover, Jazz.Β ...
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