Grand Central

Ellis Wren

Retelling en 8679 words First published 2026 United States TalesReborn

Mara Callahan has spent fourteen years as the perfect wife of a United States senator - gracious, polished, slowly disappearing inside her own life. Then a racing driver named Cal Mercer looks at her as if she were the only real thing in the room, and the dam gives way. The affair costs her everything: her son, her name, her place in the world, and at last, on a platform at Grand Central, her life. Woven through her story runs Eli Donovan's - a Hudson Valley farmer who marries the woman who once refused him and fights his way back to a reason to live. A novel of love, ruin, and the stubborn, ordinary work of being good.

Adapted from Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina (1878). Published by TalesReborn.

Grand Central

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