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Summary: A Pleasant Surprise
Review: I thought, Ho Hum, another airplane book--you read it, eat your lo-fat pretzels, forget it. Wrong. I actually got caught up in this book--the ideas of adoption and identity are very well done. The heroine is a pistol, sometimes almost too much so, but in the end I still really liked her, so I'm cutting her some slack. The villains--woo!--anybody who doesn't know these guys are absolutely real and terrifying is geographically challenged.
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Summary: What a story!
Review: If this book is real, what a book! If it's not real it doesn't matter, you will not be able to put down this book until you finish it, the story of Jaye who didn't know that she was adopted until 33 years old is amazing, and I think that is not easy know that you are adopted at that age, the story was kind of new to me and well written, the book is not going out of the story and is an easy book to read, I recommend this book whenever you want to read it. very nice reading.
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Summary: 5+ A winner
Review: In New England, Brother Maynard informs Jaye Garrett that her brother Patrick is dying in a Belgium hospital. Patrick suffers from leukemia and only a bone marrow transplant can save his life. The probability of siblings matching all six antigens is one in four. However, Maynard reveals to the distraught woman that that she and Patrick are adopted from different parents. The odds astronomically jump against finding a match within the general public.Jaye's mother admits she hid the truth from her beloved two children. She pleads with Jaye to go to Cawdor, Oklahoma where it all began because a blood relative is the best chance of saving Patrick's life. Two days later, Jaye seeks information on Dr. Roland Hunsinger and the Sunnyside Medical Clinic, but none of the locals will provide anything to her. She meets attorney Turner Gibson, who says his Pennsylvania client seeks the same information. Roland and his son-in-law will do anything to keep the truth from surfacing. However, Jaye is at least as obstinate as Turner and plans to do whatever it takes to find a proper donor. With novels like SEE HOW THEY RUN, DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS, and HEAR NO EVIL, Bethany Campbell has become one of the top authors of suspense. Her current tale, WHOSE LITTLE GIRL ARE YOU? is a fabulous thriller that shows why this fan favorite is the recipient of several awards. The story line is non-stop action as two desperate opponents struggle with revealing or concealing the truth. Readers will adore Jaye, a wonderful heroine doing what she believes is the only course of action to save Patrick's life. Ms. Campbell is heading back to all the best seller lists with an incredibly powerful novel. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: The Things She Does For Love
Review: In this book Jaye Garrett is set in motion when she learns her brother is doomed unless a marrow doner is found for him. But at the same time, she discovers that not only was her brother illegally adopted, so was she. Both were purchased from a doctor specializing in "black market babies." Jaye, determined to find her brother's blood relatives,goes to the small Oklahoma town where the doctor still lives--and where his power is almost absolute. Jaye's passion to save her brother--even though it means unearthing old secrets--makes her a target of those who will do anything to keep those secrets hidden. Love and desperation make her fearless. Such fearlessness could destroy the most powerful men in town; they must stop her--by murder if necessary.
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Summary: Taut and satisfying
Review: Jaye Garrett is a successful, independent woman prosperous at her work and content with her life in Boston ... until she gets the kind of phone call that everyone dreads. Her brother, Patrick, is lying in a Belgian hospital bed, diagnosed with leukemia and dependent upon a bone marrow transplant for survival. Jaye rushes to her mother's home, not only to offer comfort to her mother with whom she has a strained relationship, but to get more detailed information about Patrick's condition and location because, of course, she must fly immediately to Belgium and be tested as a potential marrow donor. Jaye is completely stunned and shattered when her mother, Nona, informs her that both she and Patrick were adopted, two years apart. There is, thus, no chance that Jaye's marrow would be a match for Patrick, but Nona has a possible solution. She begs Jaye to travel to Cawdor, Oklahoma, where both Jaye and Patrick were born at a clinic run by Dr. Roland Hunsinger, whose lucrative sideline was selling illegitimate babies. If Jaye can locate the records which will lead her to Patrick's blood relatives, then he might have a chance to live. Although Jaye is shocked to learn of her adoption and repulsed that her parents bought her and her brother, she has little choice but to undertake the quest for Patrick's sake. Cawdor turns out to be a spooky, Godforsaken place populated by tight-lipped, unfriendly people who show no inclination to render any assistance to Jaye. It seems that Dr. Hunsinger has been somehow incapacitated -- no one in town seems to know whether he had a stroke or an accident or exactly what his problem is or, if they do, they aren't talking. The former clinic is now a nursing home where, Jaye is tersely informed, there are certainly no adoption records. Soon after her arrival in town, she is contacted by Philadelphia lawyer Turner Gibson who says he has also come to Cawdor in search of information about an adopted child. Turner persuades Jaye to join forces with him and, while she realizes that two heads are better than one and may open more doors, she doesn't quite trust him. Indeed, Turner has a hidden agenda. But is he friend or foe? Jaye will find out fast enough as the two of them follow leads, get shot at, stalked, extorted, burned, kidnapped, and lose a witness to murder. The action is intense as this thriller races toward its conclusion. I loved it!
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Summary: An emotional and exciting story
Review: Jaye Garrett journeys to a dark and clannish small town in a desperate and passionate quest to save her brother's life. Suspense, romance,and gritty realism make this an emotional and exciting story that never flags. If you like J.D. Robb, Tami Hoag, and Sandra Brown, this is definitely your kind of book.
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Summary: THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE
Review: Jaye Garrett receives the rudest awakening in her life after she learns her brother is dying of leukemia in Belgium. She leaves Boston to join the woman she recognized as her mother all of her life only to be told that she and her brother are not related to one another nor to the mother! These children were bought from a black market doctor in Oklahoma who literally lives by the credo of "you came in the doctor's black [market] bag." Devastated that she cannot donate blood or bone marrow to the man she had long believed was her brother, Jaye sets off on a mission to discover her real identity and that of her "brother's" as well. She returns to the insulated town of Cawdor, Oklahoma where the black market doctor's influence is prevalent and insidious. She joins forces with an attorney (seems rather a propos that he is a PHILADELPHIA lawyer) with a hidden agenda. As Nifferoo pointed out, there are some geographical issues and I, too, thought the part of "urine twinkling like jewels" (I never thought of liquid waste as having anything in common with jewels) was needless. I wasn't offended, I just didn't feel that part contributed to the story in any significant way. Overall, I liked this book and felt it had some good twists and plot turns. It was certainly a book that held my interest. I really liked it.
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Summary: THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE
Review: Jaye Garrett receives the rudest awakening in her life after she learns her brother is dying of leukemia in Belgium. She leaves Boston to join the woman she recognized as her mother all of her life only to be told that she and her brother are not related to one another nor to the mother! These children were bought from a black market doctor in Oklahoma who literally lives by the credo of "you came in the doctor's black [market] bag." Devastated that she cannot donate blood or bone marrow to the man she had long believed was her brother, Jaye sets off on a mission to discover her real identity and that of her "brother's" as well. She returns to the insulated town of Cawdor, Oklahoma where the black market doctor's influence is prevalent and insidious. She joins forces with an attorney (seems rather a propos that he is a PHILADELPHIA lawyer) with a hidden agenda. As Nifferoo pointed out, there are some geographical issues and I, too, thought the part of "urine twinkling like jewels" (I never thought of liquid waste as having anything in common with jewels) was needless. I wasn't offended, I just didn't feel that part contributed to the story in any significant way. Overall, I liked this book and felt it had some good twists and plot turns. It was certainly a book that held my interest. I really liked it.
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Summary: A real thriller!
Review: Talk about being on the edge of your seat! This is a book that I did not want to put down! Although sometimes the subplots were predictable, this book kept you guessing until the last chapter. What Bethany Campbell needs to do now is to write a sequel about the rest of the "adopted" children. Maybe Jaye could again go on a search with her "lawyer" friend Turner to find the rest of the missing children and their birth parents. Bethany Campbell is quickly becoming one of my must read authors!
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Summary: A real thriller!
Review: Talk about being on the edge of your seat! This is a book that I did not want to put down! Although sometimes the subplots were predictable, this book kept you guessing until the last chapter. What Bethany Campbell needs to do now is to write a sequel about the rest of the "adopted" children. Maybe Jaye could again go on a search with her "lawyer" friend Turner to find the rest of the missing children and their birth parents. Bethany Campbell is quickly becoming one of my must read authors!
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