Description:Claire Hayes wakes up in a hospital bed she doesn't remember being put in. The last thing she knew, she was thirty-five, her marriage was in ruins, and a man she thought loved her
Description:Claire Hayes wakes up in a hospital bed she doesn't remember being put in. The last thing she knew, she was thirty-five, her marriage was in ruins, and a man she thought loved her had taken everything she had left.But that was a dream. Wasn't it?She's twenty-eight now, happily married, expecting her first surviving child. The nightmare — the affair, the betrayal, the divorce, the crash — never happened.Then she wakes up again. And this time she's twenty-two, just starting out, with her whole life still in front of her.Two impossible lives. One terrifying question: which one is real?Told in three nested layers of consciousness, *When the Dream Breaks* is a haunting, intimate story of the choices women make — and the lives they trade away before they understand the cost.A quietly devastating novel about love, regret, and the moment you finally choose yourself.