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What if everything you've ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true...just disappeared?

Annie Beyers has everything-a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It's a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician...until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she…

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Like Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter, this novel explores alternate realities, but through an entirely different lens. While both feature protagonists awakening to drastically changed lives, McNeil takes us down a more introspective, metaphysical path.

Annie Beyers’ determination to uncover what happened to the life she remembered but no longer existed—her marriage, her home, and most heartbreakingly, her daughter—pulled at something raw and real inside me. McNeil proves that stories about parallel lives don't need complex science to explore the profound questions of identity and choice.

Incidentally, I discovered this book right here on the Shepherd site, illustrating the platform's…

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