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1jennypennny
There was a book I read about 10 years ago in high school about a girl who dies, and her mother gets an old women to help bring an identical girl from another dimension or universe or something to replace her. They wipe her memory so this new girl can be raised as her daughter and tell her she just fell and got amnesia. But something goes wrong and bits of the new girl's memory starts coming back from her other universe which was filled with war. Being in this other universe is also making this girl sick and she tries to find a way back. I think the cover had fire or smoke on the front but I could be wrong.
2Aquila
I can't see one that matches in this list: https://www.librarything.com/list/664/all/Swap-identities-trade-places-childrens...
4DisassemblyOfReason
I know that the first volume of the Carolus Rex series by Andre Norton and Rosemary Edghill starts like this, although it is the dying woman's mother-in-law-to-be and the woman who raised her, not her mother, who brought in the replacement.
Not science fiction but historical fantasy, that one.
The dying woman had been dying of an illness of the lungs, and her replacement had been about to be in a carriage accident. Both are named Sarah. The women who engineer the switch were able to keep her drugged for a while - easy to do, since the dying woman had been very sick - and rather brainwashed her by reading her the dead woman's diary entries and really pushing the notion that she *was* the dead woman. It didn't stick completely but did for a while.
The book's name is The Shadow of Albion.
Andre Norton uses the basic plot-starter of replacing a dead / dying person in an alternate universe with their counterpart from another in multiple stories, though.
- Android at Arms
Male protagonist (prince, at one time prospective heir to the throne) called to replace a dying emperor, but by the emperor himself and his wife. The replacement (Andas is the name of both of them) never lost sight of who was who, though.
- Wraiths of Time
Female protagonist (historian / archaeologist, works in a museum, named Tallahassee) called through to return a missing important artifact and replace a princess (named Ashake) who gave her life trying to get it back. Women close to the princess called her through, but not really mother figures. To help Tallahassee pass as Ashake, the women gave her a sort of recording of Ashake's memories, which helped her cope with both the personal memories she needed and a language barrier. She didn't forget who she had been but did pick up a perspective of being the woman she'd replaced.
Not science fiction but historical fantasy, that one.
The dying woman had been dying of an illness of the lungs, and her replacement had been about to be in a carriage accident. Both are named Sarah. The women who engineer the switch were able to keep her drugged for a while - easy to do, since the dying woman had been very sick - and rather brainwashed her by reading her the dead woman's diary entries and really pushing the notion that she *was* the dead woman. It didn't stick completely but did for a while.
The book's name is The Shadow of Albion.
Andre Norton uses the basic plot-starter of replacing a dead / dying person in an alternate universe with their counterpart from another in multiple stories, though.
- Android at Arms
Male protagonist (prince, at one time prospective heir to the throne) called to replace a dying emperor, but by the emperor himself and his wife. The replacement (Andas is the name of both of them) never lost sight of who was who, though.
- Wraiths of Time
Female protagonist (historian / archaeologist, works in a museum, named Tallahassee) called through to return a missing important artifact and replace a princess (named Ashake) who gave her life trying to get it back. Women close to the princess called her through, but not really mother figures. To help Tallahassee pass as Ashake, the women gave her a sort of recording of Ashake's memories, which helped her cope with both the personal memories she needed and a language barrier. She didn't forget who she had been but did pick up a perspective of being the woman she'd replaced.
5Bargle5
Found the book I was remembering. As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott. Hope it's yours.
6jennypennny
>5 Bargle5: I THINK THAT'S IT! So cool, thank you! I have been trying to find this foreverrrrr!!!!
