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BOOK FEATURE: “Not Her Daughter”

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“Not Her Daughter” by Rea Frey

Blurb: Emma Grace Townsend. Five years old. Gray eyes. Brown hair. Missing since June.

Emma Townsend is lonely. Living with her cruel mother and clueless father, Emma retreats into her own world of quiet and solitude.

Sarah Walker. Successful entrepreneur. Broken-hearted. Abandoned by her mother. Kidnapper.

Sarah has never seen a girl so precious as the gray-eyed child in a crowded airport terminal—and when a second-chance encounter with Emma presents itself, Sarah takes her, far away from home. But if it’s to rescue a little girl from her damaging mother, is kidnapping wrong?

Amy Townsend. Unhappy wife. Unfit mother. Unsure she wants her daughter back.

Amy’s life is a string of disappointments, but her biggest issue is her inability to connect with her daughter. And now she’s gone without a trace.

As Sarah and Emma avoid the nationwide hunt, they form an unshakeable bond. But her real mother is at home, waiting for her to return—and the longer the search for Emma continues, Amy is forced to question if she really wants her back.

Emotionally powerful and wire-taut, Not Her Daughter raises the question of what it means to be a mother—and how far someone will go to keep a child safe.

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About the author: Rea Frey is an award-winning author of four nonfiction books. She lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter. NOT HER DAUGHTER is her debut novel. Read more at reafrey.com.

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I love books.  All types of books.  When I was younger and lived in my childhood home, my brother’s room was full of bookshelves, and I was jealous of his room.  Yes, I had the nice and “pretty” room, but I wanted the ceiling to roof room.  How awesome was that?!

Anyway, as some of you know, I’ve been helping to plan a baby shower, and one of the gifts I gave were books.  I think that it’s very important for each and every child to say that they’ve held a book.  With modern technology growing, I still think that infants, babies, and toddlers need the time that mommy and/or daddy reads to them with an actual and physical book.  While I was in the process of deciding which book to get for this precious baby, I wanted them all to be special, sweet, and family like.  These books don’t exist anymore.  What happened to the (types of ) books like  “The Runaway Bunny,” “The Velveteen Rabbit,” any Golden Book, and of course, the Aesop’s Fables (which I had to have help to find)?  I’m about to be 31, so maybe for me those books are all “classics,” but in the stores they seem very obsolete.  Is that sad to anyone?  It is to me.

This leads me to my point of this blog.  When I was a kid, I loved bedtime the most because my mom would always read a book to me and my brother – sometimes two a night, one for him and one for me.  One of my favorite reads that she read was any book that the Berenstain Bears created.  I was saddened tonight when I found out that the Co-Creator of Stan and Jan Berenstain had passed.  Read THIS for more information on the death of one of the greatest children’s author – ever!  What was your favorite Berenstain Bear book?