A deeply moving, emotional story of a mother’s anguish, a father’s love, a family’s hope, this novel will renew your faith and restore your belief in miracles. 

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Veterinarian and single mom Emily Hawkins’ world is turned upside down when her precious little girl is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Only a bone marrow transplant can save 3-year-old Matilda Louise.

 

Emily isn’t a match, but she’s determined to find someone who is, and that means tracking down Tilda’s biological father and his filthy rich family, a family she believes would’ve preferred her little girl had never been born.

 

But when she arrives in Big Falls, Oklahoma, nothing is the way she expected.

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Joey McIntyre, the billionaire’s son who’d been her sweet teenage summer fling, is as handsome and smooth as ever, but he seems to fall hard for Tilda-Lou at first sight, and he’s furious that Emily has kept his child from him. Which makes no sense at all.

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Soon Emily begins to suspect that the version of history she’s believed all these years, might not be the real one. And if that’s true, she’s done a terrible, unforgivable thing. But none of that matters as dire symptoms set in.

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The doctor advises Emily and Joe to give their girl the best Christmas ever. Fortunately, Christmas is what the Brand-McIntyre clan does best.

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Two parents put their feelings aside and come together in a desperate search for a way to save their little girl against all odds.

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But the truth is that little Matilda Louise is the one who’s saving them.

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