Prologue and Chapters 1-3 Summary

"Finding the Dream" is the third novel in the Dream series. In the first book of the series, Margo Sullivan, the daughter of the Templeton housekeeper, found a gold coin from Serafina's dowry shortly before she and Josh Templeton were married. In the second book of the series, Kate Powell, the orphaned ward of the Templetons, also found a gold coin shortly before she and Byron De Witt found love and married. In this novel, it is Laura's turn.

Preface. California, 1888. Felipe visits the cliff where he and Serafina spent so many happy times and were Serafina, hearing reports of Felipe's death in the war, fell to her death. It has been many years now, and Felipe still misses Serafina, but he has lived a good life. Now Felipe wonders briefly if he should recover Serafina's dowry...