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Child of Her Dreams

by Joan Kilby

Published 2002304 pagesISBN 978-0-3737-1076-8

How can she love him? He doesn't take her seriously! Hainesville, Washington, might not be glamorous, but it's the place supermodel Geena Hanson wants to be after she collapses on a Milan runway and has a near-death experience that sends her back into life with the promise of having a child. How can he love her? She's seriously offbeat! Dr. Ben Matthews is in Hainesville filling in for the local family physician. A man of science if ever there was one, Ben couldn't be more different from warm and intuitive Geena, his temporary receptionist. Opposites attract? Geena and Ben certainly do. The swift attraction blossoms and love looks as if it will endure. Until Ben's brother goes missing and Geena tries to comfort Ben with what happened to her "on the other side"...

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Urgent pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Who it may suit

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Child of Her DreamsJoan Kilby
Powerful5/5

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA standard-length read304 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2002
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3737-1076-8
Language
English
Edition record
OL7419783M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.