The Dream Daughter Chamberlain, Diane

North Carolina, 1970. Carly's pregnant, her husband just died in a helicopter crash over Vietnam, and the doctors have delivered impossible news: her baby has a heart defect that can't be fixed. Not yet, anyway. Enter her brother-in-law, a physicist with a wild proposal — time travel to 2001, where the surgery exists, have the baby there, and bring her back. It sounds insane. It is insane. But Carly's desperate, and the '70s can't save her daughter. Diane Chamberlain weaves grief, motherhood, and impossible choices into a story that's equal parts emotional gut-punch and speculative what-if. The time travel mechanics take a backseat to the human stakes — what would you sacrifice to save your child? What would you risk to give them a future? For fans of emotional family dramas with a twist of the impossible.