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After a sleepless night and a tense dawn routine, she discovers the aftermath of an after-party and finds her husband comatose, temporarily giving her a narrow window to act. Though her life has been shaped by envy, isolation, and relentless pressure from her husband and his mother, Sage resolves that this time she will leave, despite looming complications.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAbout the Author  \nCallie Coles is a British debut novelist whose love of animals, nature and family life in the countryside infuses her storytelling. Callie balances her life as a mother with her passion for writing and horses, sharing her journey through her Instagram and Substack accounts, where she has a combined following of over one million. In addition to her work as a novelist, Callie has contributed to various publications and collaborated with several leading British brands. Her writing reflects themes of resilience, connection to the land and the emotional bonds between people and animals, all set against the vivid backdrop of rural life. Tangled Webs is the first instalment in the ‘Spinning Silks’ trilogy, with books two and three due to follow in July 2027 and July 2028.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCallie Coles  \nTANGLED WEBS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo my boys.  \nI loveyou.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nI am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.  \nCharlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre  \nIslas Del Penta, Panama, New Year ’s Day  \nSage woke early after a long night of broken sleep. The rising sun’s rays, already strong, were glaring through the dilapidated wooden shutters of her bedroom window. Not yet ready to face the world, she kept her eyes tightly closed. Her dry throat constricted as she tried to swallow. Lifting a hand to her face, she gingerly traced the swelling around her left eye. She suspected that the delicate bone beneath the eyebrow was broken and knew that this time, she would leave.  \nThe sound of gentle breathing reminded Sage she was not alone in the bed. Carefully so as not to wake him, she pulled the solid, comforting warmth of her three-year-old son towards her and encircled him gently with her arms. The tempo of Hal’s rhythmic, sweet breaths soothed her jangled nerves sufficiently for her to finally open her eyes. She turned onto her back and gently moved away from the sleeping child. She found that she was fighting to keep her breathing even, strung out and taut in every frightened sinew. Today was going to be fraught with complications. Her husband and his mother would make her escape from the island as difficult as possible. She had guessed that Santiago would not have slept in their bed last night – he rarely did any more – but she was apprehensive nevertheless and looked around the large room, which was somehow still elegant despite its shabby state. Reassured to find that she and Hal were alone, she let out another sigh  \ninto the warm and heavy air; one of relief this time, which she had not realized she had been holding in.  \nYoung women all over the world had mourned when American playboy racing driver and renowned bachelor Santiago Deverill had married her. She knew that even now, people still envied her. They saw the nineteenthcentury plantation estate set on this Pacific island with its hundred acres surrounding the grand but crumbling colonial mansion where she was raising their child, and immediately reached the conclusion that Sage Deverill must be happy. Happiness, however, had eluded Sage for the last four years.  \nHearing the muffled squawks of her mother-in-law’s African grey parrot from the confines of its cage on the veranda below the window, Sage sat up cautiously and edged her way over to the side of the bed, taking care not to wake Hal, still peacefully sleeping. She hoped, as she swung her legs off the side of the bed, that she would have a chance to compose some semblance of a plan before he woke. She pulled on an old pair of denim cut-off shortsand a faded blue linen shirt that she had been wearing the day before, then swept her thick, tangled hair off her hot neck and tied it into a hurried plait. 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