POSTPONEMENT
A Cryo-Suspension Domestic Thriller
What if you could place your newborn into cryo-suspension until it was more convenient to bring him or her home?
“It has been a long time since I have been so moved emotionally by characters such as these.” — Reader
What if you could place your newborn into cryo-suspension — frozen, safe, waiting — until the time was right to bring them home?
In a near-future Austin, the Postponement Center offers parents that choice due to career advancement, educational pursuits, parental immaturity, or medical reasons. It's legal, convenient, and quietly reshaping what it means to become a mother.
Nora Collins is the one who guides those families through it. Single, past child-bearing years, she has spent her life among infants she helps preserve and never gets to keep. The work is steady. The goodbyes are routine. Until they aren't.
When one mother's decision puts a postponed child's life at risk, Nora must choose between the rules she's sworn to follow and a conviction she can no longer ignore. What she does will cost her — and force her to confront the choice from her own past she's spent decades trying to outrun.
A First Place winner of the Incipere Book Award for Women's Clean Fiction, Postponement is a thought-provoking domestic thriller about conscience, second chances, and the price of doing what's right.
Just because we can postpone parenthood — should we?
“Not my usual, I tend to be a strictly romance reader, but this was a great story. Makes you think. Truly fantastic book!”
REVIEWS
“Wow this book had me hooked. The story line flowed nicely and held my interest from the first chapter to the last. Very often with books I find myself skipping all the boring mundane parts,i.e. What the characters ate for lunch etc. This book had none of that I can honestly say I read it all, I laughed and I cried. This is one book i will keep and read again. A truly wonderful story.”
“I absolutely loved this book! It was engaging and I just couldn’t put it down. I bet at some time in the future, the story told here may become a reality! Definitely worth the read!”
“A thought provoking story. I was skeptical given the futuristic aspects of cryogenics. I was unexpectedly swept up.in the story from the beginning and actually ended reading it, in one afternoon, ending it in tears. It has been a long time since I have been so moved emotionally by characters such as these.”
“I don’t normally read this type of book but the idea interested me . I wasn’t disappointed what a book! It’s fast paced and no filler as you get in some books and it’s such an interesting subject.”
“Normally, I would not seek out a thriller to read but thought I would give this one a try. It was definitely another page turner from Diane and raised a lot of questions, something I wasn’t really prepared for. Definitely an interesting concept...and ...what if it was possible and available... how would you look at it morally? Good read.”
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Blaring sirens forced morning rush hour commuters to the sides of the frontage road running along the busy interstate. Neither the passenger nor the attending paramedic noticed the rays of light reflecting off Lady Bird Lake. Morning joggers and cyclists were fulfilling their passions for exercise before the heat of the summer day set in.
"Almost there, Yvonne, almost," Mo said, placing a cool hand on her sweating shoulder, attempting to calm the groaning woman.
"Please hurry," came her breathless voice as she squirmed on the thin mattress.
They flew past the University Medical Center and continued to the highway entrance. A scratchy voice crackled from the radio, "Six-fifty-seven, what's your status?"
"Seven minutes out," said Kevin, the emergency medical tech, weaving in and out of hurried morning drivers. He smirked. "Have I said lately that traffic sucks in this town?" Even with the siren's rise and fall resounding, people took their time figuring out how to give the ambulance passage over to the fast lane of the roadway.
"Copy that. FYI. Destination reports demonstrators in the area. Proceed with caution," came the dispatcher’s reply.
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