The Good Dream & Cast Into Doubt (Reader's Digest: Select Editions Vol. 190, Aug. 2014)

This large print edition of the Reader's Digest: Select Editions features two books in one: "The Good Dream" by Donna VanLiere, and "Cast Into Doubt" by Patricia MacDonald.

"The Good Dream" by Donna VanLiere

In this full-length novel from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series Donna VanLiere has written a beautifully rendered and poignant story about one woman's unlikely path to motherhood and the healing power of love.

Tennessee, 1950: Still single and in her early thirties, Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid; a label she takes with good humor and a grain of salt. But when her mother dies, leaving her to live alone in the house she grew up in, to work the farm she was raised to take care of, she finds herself lost in a kind of loneliness she hadn't expected. After years of rebuffing the advances of imperfect, yet eligible bachelors from her small town, Ivorie is without companionship with more love in her heart and time on her hands than she knows what to do with. But her life soon changes when a feral, dirty-faced boy who has been sneaking onto her land to steal from her garden comes into her life. Even though he runs back into the hills as quickly as he arrives, she's determined to find out who he is because something about the young boy haunts her. What would make him desperate enough to steal and eat from her garden? But what she can't imagine is what the boy faces, each day and night, in the filthy lean-to hut miles up in the hills. Who is he? How did he come to live in the hills? Where did he come from? And, more importantly, can she save him? As Ivorie steps out of her comfort zone to uncover the answers, she unleashes a firestorm in the town-a community that would rather let secrets stay that way.

This pitch perfect story of redemption and the true meaning of familial love is Donna VanLiere at her very best.

"Cast Into Doubt" by Patricia MacDonald

When Shelby’s daughter disappears into thin air aboard a cruise ship, authorities believe it to be an alcohol-fueled accident. But knowing that her daughter doesn’t drink, Shelby is determined to prove them wrong and find justice… Publishers Weekly raves, “Fresh, suspenseful.”

Shelby wants to give her daughter Chloe a gift she’ll never forget: a luxury cruise around the Caribbean. It will be the honeymoon Chloe and her husband Rob never got to take. Shelby will look after their little boy. Then the unthinkable happens: Shelby gets a call from a distraught Rob—Chloe is missing, fallen overboard. Everyone says she was drunk and alone, that it must have been a tragic accident. But all Shelby’s maternal instincts tell her that can’t be true. Chloe never drank. Shelby has to find out what really happened…because she knows her own daughter, doesn’t she?

A seamless blend of high domestic suspense with a shattering final twist, this psychological thriller is perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, T.M. Logan, B.A. Paris, Liane Moriarty, Claire Dyer, Sam Carrington, and Celeste Ng.