{"product_id":"she-was-never-her-mother-a-true-story-of-betrayal-grief-and-a-family-that-erased-a-mother-9798197404756","title":"She Was Never Her Mother: A True Story of Betrayal, Grief, and a Family That Erased a Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Shayleen Fraser\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Parenting - Stepparenting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome loves are never forgotten.\u003cbr\u003eSome are never forgiven.\u003cbr\u003eAnd some are rewritten after they're gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of Regina and Olivia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegina loved Olivia as if she were her own from the moment she entered her life. She showed up. She stayed. She raised her. She built her world around a child who was not biologically hers, believing love could be proven through presence, consistency, and sacrifice. For years, life moves through routine-school runs, daily habits, small arguments that fade and return, and the steady work of raising a child in a blended family where belonging is never guaranteed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut even in that routine, love is not simple. It is shaped by other loyalties, other voices, and histories that leave uneven space for everyone involved. What is given freely is not always received in the same way. As time passes, Olivia and Regina begin to drift along a line that has already started to split. What was once closeness becomes something told differently depending on who is speaking-who mattered most, who is remembered, and what version of the past is allowed to stand. The fracture does not happen at once. It builds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is a slow breaking of what it meant to be family-made sharper by loss, inheritance, and what is left behind. Decisions are made without Regina. Access narrows. Communication fractures. What she believed she built begins to disappear in pieces she cannot reach. Grief does not create the distance. It exposes what was already there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its core, this is a novel about a woman who loved a child she was never guaranteed to keep, and a daughter who remembers that love differently. Ultimately, the question is not what was felt. It is who gets to decide what it means.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968845136023,"sku":"9798197404756","price":1371.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197404756.webp?v=1782919586","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/she-was-never-her-mother-a-true-story-of-betrayal-grief-and-a-family-that-erased-a-mother-9798197404756","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}