If You Knew…
By Richard Plourde (Indie author, 2026)
Genre: hard to peg. Closest we can get: Narrative Nonfiction/Speculative Fiction
Pages (Print): 295
Via: Author request
Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book for honest review.
What if it were true?
Every once in a while we come across a book that’s so hauntingly beautiful and powerfully poignant, it takes our breath away.
If You Knew… is one of those books.
The Basics
When their four-year-old son Gabriel’s leukemia relapses, Richard and his wife, Joycelene, are thrust back into the nightmare they thought they had escaped. Every heartbeat feels like a countdown as they beg for a miracle to keep their child alive.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in time, Bill — a young university student reeling from heartbreak — suddenly glimpses a future that shouldn’t be his to see. Horrified by the suffering that seems to await, he vows to defy it at all costs.
As both men confront what they most fear, their stories converge into a haunting clash of destiny, courage, and life-altering choices. Will the actions they take be enough to rewrite fate, or are some destinies impossible to escape? Can one really “cross the boundary of time” and stand in his or her own future?
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