The courage tree - diane chamberlain

Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue suffers from a rare disease but wants to be normal.

Sophies mother agrees to let her go on a camping trip.

When Sophie gets lost, she finds refuge in a cabin inhabited by a reclusive woman protecting her own daughter from the law.

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Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue just wanted to be like every other little girl.

Which is why her mother, Janine, reluctantly agreed to let her go on the weekend camping trip with her Brownie troop.

But when Janine arrives to pick up Sophie after the trip, her daughter is not with the others.

Somehow, along the forested route from West Virginia, Sophie has disappeared.

But Sophie is no ordinary eight-year-old.

She suffers from a rare disease, and Janine has recently enrolled her in an experimental treatment as a last effort to save her life--despite the vehement objections of her ex-husband, Joe.

Without her medication, Sophie cannot survive long.

All her mothers instincts tell Janine that Sophie is alive, but time is running out.

Deep in the Virginia forest, another drama unfolds.

Sophie finds refuge in a remote cabin inhabited by Zoe, a woman who wants nothing to do with the child.

Zoe is struggling to save her own daughter from the law, and Sophies presence jeopardizes any chance of that happening.

She is as determined to save her daughter as Janine is to save Sophie.

and only one of them can succeed.