A book that will tug your heart strings and stimulate your mind

When I first started reading, I thought that this book was a different genre for me and that I really wouldn’t like it. I ended up loving it because the characters were so lovable and the plot was totally unique! Carly is a young widow of an army man during the Vietnam War. After she is notified of Joe’s death, she discovers that she is pregnant. This news is shortly followed by the news that the baby has a terminal heart defect. Carly is emotionallysupported by her sister Patti and her brother-in-law Hunter. But nothing can comfort her when she finds out that she has lost her husband and now she is going to lose his baby, too. Hunter then tells her a remearkable story of how he came from the future via a time travel portal and he will help her to travel there in order to get life-saving surgery for her baby that is not available in 1970. Wow! Just wow! This mind-blowing aspect of the plot got better and better as the reader follows Carly to the different decades that she ends up in, trying to find her way back home again. I liked Carly’s story because she captured my heart from the beginning. Her desire to save the life of her unborn child no matter the cost to her was admirable and made me want to keep reading more of Carly’s tale. The book was a stunning addition to fiction and had so many twists and turns that I never knew what to expect next. When Carly made the leap to a future 2001 with cell phones and laptops and surgery for her unborn child, I was right there with her, imagining what it must have been like for her. This novel was very enjoyable as well as thought-provoking and I highly recommend it to fans of Diane Chamberlain and to those who want to read a novel that has a totally unique perspective on time travel and its benefits and consequences.