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The Dream Daughter is a page-turning and unforgettable story of love and hope from bestselling author Diane Chamberlain.

When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But…

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Carly is pregnant but her baby has a fatal heart defect. Her brother-in-law knows how to fix this: travel from 1970 to a future time where fetal surgery will save her child’s life. And the portals are all over the place! All you have to do is find one on his computer, go there and step off a roof or ledge. The scientific explanation for this is so believable I was half-convinced it’s real. Of course, it’s not that simple. What will a mother do to save her child? This brought back all the sleepless nights when my kids were…

What wouldn’t you do for your child? What wouldn’t you sacrifice?

Diane Chamberlain wrote a blurb for my book, and while I had already read many of her books, The Dream Daughter was one I had missed. I quickly devoured it in one night and then sat stunned that we had penned such eerily similar novels. Two women, mothers, traveling through time with the life of a child hanging in the balance and a gut-wrenching dilemma hanging over their heads. 

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