Until this year, Christmas was always Clara McCallum's
favorite holiday. Until this year, she's always loved
strolling down the gaily decorated New York City streets,
joyously shopping for the perfect gifts for her family and
friends. But this year, Clara will be all alone for
Christmas. Her dad is off with his new family, her mom has
gone to Florida and her fiancé left her months ago. And
Clara has just been diagnosed with breast cancer,, the one
thing that terrifies her most. Breast cancer killed her
grandmother and turned her own mother into a woman who was
scared and unreliable, who devoted her time and effort to
avoiding cancer and neglecting her daughter.
Clara is counting on her new job to keep her mind off her
troubles. She just landed the lead roll in a period film,
her first major movie! The film, which takes place in the
1940s, is a slightly embellished biography about 12 young
enlisted men from a small New York town who never return
from war. Clara plays the fictional love interest of the
main character, Jed Landry.
One year after the death of his father, Jed Landry is
finding it impossible to get into the holiday sprit. The
sacrifices he's made for his family are weighing heavily on
his mind. As the oldest, Jed knows it's his duty to come
home to look after his mother and sisters and make sure his
brother continues his education, but he can't wait until he
can get on with his own life. Jed is wondering how much
longer he can take it when the most beautiful woman he's
ever seen walks into his store.
Clara is sure she must be dreaming. She must have hit her
head harder than she thought when she fell in the train.
She remembers setting up for the scene where she rides into
town on the train, she remembers being thrown forward and
cracking her head, she thinks she remembers departing the
train, but she must be unconscious because it sure seems as
though she's really in 1941. There are no cameras, no sets,
nobody waiting in the wings to fix her hair or makeup. And
where are the condos that were on the hill over there? As
she wanders through town, she's confident she'll wake up
any minute. But when she walks into Jed Landry's five-and-
dime, and meets him face-to-face, Clara begins to wonder.
Surely her imagination isn't accomplished enough to make
this up. Frightened, Clara boards the train heading back to
the city praying it will take her home.
Trying desperately to convince herself it's all just a
dream, Clara moves through the next few days trying to push
thoughts of Jed Landry out of her head. But what if it was
real, and what if Clara could go back and save Jed's life?
On the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, FDR said that
Dec. 7, 1941, was a day that would live in infamy, but for
Clara it's the week before that will live on in her heart.
The week that she learned about time travel, the week she
learned about family and the week she found true love. And
it's in the time after when she learns that miracles do
happen. IF ONLY IN MY DREAMS captures the spirit of the
holidays and will make you believe in miracles, too. A must-
read.
Imagine Clara McCallum's astonishment when she steps off an
old-fashioned locomotive from a movie set and finds herself
whisked back in time to 1941, and into the arms of Jed
Landry, a man whom Clara has read about and studied, a man
who is very much alive in 1941 but whom she knows will die
a hero at Normandy three years later-or is it 62 years ago?
Clara's convinced it's some sort of hallucination, but
before long she finds herself swept away by the handsome
soldier, and wondering if maybe her plunge into the past
could change the course of the future-and turn out to be
the best Christmas present ever.
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