The Wrong Child

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Summary: A Magnificent, Touching Read That Stirs The Heart!
Review: 11 years ago during a blizzard, two baby girls were born. And all these years, a terrible secret has lay undiscovered. But two families will be disrupted when the truth is finally revealed. Accidentally, the two baby girls were switched in the hospital the night they were born, each raised in a loving home with parents who didn't give birth to her.

Abbie Bernard, tormented when she learns the shocking truth of her daughter Kendall's true parentage, tracks down Logan O'Connell, the widower father of the other baby girl from that night 11 years ago. Abbie's daughter by birth. Together, Abbie and Logan must not only face the shock that the child each has raised is not his or her own birth child, but they must find a way to face an uncertain future without losing the children they have come to know and love as their own.

A magnificent, touching read that stirs the heart, "THE WRONG CHILD" sensitively addresses every parent's worst nightmare. "What if the child you've raised isn't your own? What if your own child was raised by a stranger? What if your child was switched at birth?" Ms. Kay has a winner in this wonderful story!

Rating:
Summary: A Magnificent, Touching Read That Stirs The Heart!
Review: 11 years ago during a blizzard, two baby girls were born. And all these years, a terrible secret has lay undiscovered. But two families will be disrupted when the truth is finally revealed. Accidentally, the two baby girls were switched in the hospital the night they were born, each raised in a loving home with parents who didn't give birth to her.

Abbie Bernard, tormented when she learns the shocking truth of her daughter Kendall's true parentage, tracks down Logan O'Connell, the widower father of the other baby girl from that night 11 years ago. Abbie's daughter by birth. Together, Abbie and Logan must not only face the shock that the child each has raised is not his or her own birth child, but they must find a way to face an uncertain future without losing the children they have come to know and love as their own.

A magnificent, touching read that stirs the heart, "THE WRONG CHILD" sensitively addresses every parent's worst nightmare. "What if the child you've raised isn't your own? What if your own child was raised by a stranger? What if your child was switched at birth?" Ms. Kay has a winner in this wonderful story!

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Summary: This is a winner!
Review: Abbie Bernard and her eleven-year-old daughter Kendall have just returned to Abbie's hometown of Houston. Abbie, a researcher is anxious for Kendall to enjoy all the things the big city will allow. When Kendall has some blood work done, it's discovered that there is no way Abbie could be Kendall's biological mother. Abbie, of course, is stunned.

Research expert she is, Abbie discovers there was another baby girl born in the same hospital just minutes after her baby. With a bit of detective work she finds this family also lives in Houston and decides to pay them a visit making up the a story that she is doing an article on the hospital where the girls were born.

Abbie visits the home of architect Logan O'Connell, a widower with two children. She is stunned when his daughter, Erin, comes in the room. Erin looks just like Abby did as a child.

Erin is already having adjustment problems after the death of her mother two years earlier. She has grown very close to her mother's sister, Elizabeth, and sees Elizabeth as a perfect candidate to become her new step-mother. Elizabeth's goal is to get Logan, no matter what. She lost him to her sister years earlier and now it's her turn to have the handsome Pierce Brosnan look-alike.

Abbie eventually confronts Logan with her evidence, and it doesn't take him long to realize she's right. But what happens next? How are they going to tell the children?

THE WRONG CHILD is a dramatic tale ripped from the headlines. Patricia Kay is wonderful at characterization. Erin's reaction to the situation is particularly poignant. Logan is a hero to die for and interesting secondary characters including Abbie's mother, Katherine, and Logan's conniving sister-in-law Elizabeth all add to the already dramatic scenes.

Patricia Kay, who has been a longtime favorite for her category romances written as Trisha Alexander, joins the ranks of authors of women's fiction with great finesse. THE WRONG CHILD is a story to savor and one difficult to put down once started.

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Summary: A very entertaining read!
Review: Abbie Bernard and her eleven-year-old daughter Kendall have just returned to Abbie's hometown of Houston. Abbie, a researcher is anxious for Kendall to enjoy all the things the big city will allow. When Kendall has some blood work done, it's discovered that there is no way Abbie could be Kendall's biological mother. Abbie, of course, is stunned.

Research expert she is, Abbie discovers there was another baby girl born in the same hospital just minutes after her baby. With a bit of detective work she finds this family also lives in Houston and decides to pay them a visit making up the a story that she is doing an article on the hospital where the girls were born.

Abbie visits the home of architect Logan O'Connell, a widower with two children. She is stunned when his daughter, Erin, comes in the room. Erin looks just like Abby did as a child.

Erin is already having adjustment problems after the death of her mother two years earlier. She has grown very close to her mother's sister, Elizabeth, and sees Elizabeth as a perfect candidate to become her new step-mother. Elizabeth's goal is to get Logan, no matter what. She lost him to her sister years earlier and now it's her turn to have the handsome Pierce Brosnan look-alike.

Abbie eventually confronts Logan with her evidence, and it doesn't take him long to realize she's right. But what happens next? How are they going to tell the children?

THE WRONG CHILD is a dramatic tale ripped from the headlines. Patricia Kay is wonderful at characterization. Erin's reaction to the situation is particularly poignant. Logan is a hero to die for and interesting secondary characters including Abbie's mother, Katherine, and Logan's conniving sister-in-law Elizabeth all add to the already dramatic scenes.

Patricia Kay, who has been a longtime favorite for her category romances written as Trisha Alexander, joins the ranks of authors of women's fiction with great finesse. THE WRONG CHILD is a story to savor and one difficult to put down once started.

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Summary: Switched at Birth
Review: Abbie Bernard loves her daughter Kendall and so when Kendall gets sick she wants to make her better. She takes her to the doctor and when the blood test comes back it turnes out that Kendall is not her biological daughter.

When she gets the news she calls the newspaper in the town that Kendall was born in finds out the name of the other girl born the same night as Kendall and goes to visit Logan O'Connell Kendall's biological father and after several days tells him about the switch.

After several months Logan comes up with a way for them to be with the daughter that they raised and their biological children. Kendall is thrilled when the news comes out that Abbie and Logan were married. Erin, Abbies biological daughter is less than thrilled and runs away when the news comes out that Abbie is actually her biological mother.

Everything works out in the end though.



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Summary: Fantastic human drama
Review: Eleven years ago, there was a nasty storm that left the Cyrus Hurley General Hospital in the Texas Panhandle understaffed. That night two little girls were born to two families traveling through the area. The sixty plus year old nurse on duty was extra tired from a double shift and thought the identifications of the babies had been mistakenly changed when she died in the new born wing.

Single mom Abbie Bernard and her eleven years old daughter Kendall move to her hometown of Houston so she can find more work as a freelance researcher. Since Kendell has been tired lately, Abbie takes her to see her former doctor. Kendell suffers from anemia, but the shocker is the child's "AB" blood type 100 per cent excludes Abbie's "O" type from her being the biological mother.

Abbie traces the other girl to local architect Logan O'Connell whose wife Anne died three years ago. Abbie uses a pretense to meet her biological daughter Erin and learns that Kendell has an older brother. As the two families begin to intermingle, protecting the two girls is paramount, superseding the blossoming love between the single parents. Adding to the mess is Anne's sisters' manipulation of Erin to obtain her hearts desire: Logan.

THE WRONG CHILD is the right book for any romance reader who relishes a powerful family drama. The story line works because the cast makes it plausible. As the key players learn of the hospital's error, they react within their already developed personality traits. Best-selling author Patricia Kay has written a warm contemporary romance within a dynamic family drama.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: WHAT AN INCREDIBLE STORY!!
Review: I stayed up all night, then I called in sick at work to finish reading this book! What a riveting story. I couldn't put it down. Patricia Kay can really write--she had me in tears of sorrow, then tears of joy. The characters handled a gut-wrenching situation with intelligence, care and love with the best interest of their children in mind, and we can all learn from that. I can't wait now to read THE OTHER WOMAN. The one chapter at the end of THE WRONG CHILD, wasn't enough!!

Thanks so much, Patricia Kay. WOW!

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Summary: Concept Always Intrigued Me
Review: Like many other Americans, I followed the headlines when it was discovered that the girl in Florida, Kimberly, was switched at birth with another baby and both were raised by the other's biological parents. The other girl had recently died so there was no similar ordeal for her to go through. This novel takes that basic premise and makes both girls alive and well. One child is being raised by a single mother and the other child is being raised by a widowed father. This opens up the whole possibility of romance between the two surviving parents and combining their families and households. The story unfolds pretty much as a romance and family story with neither parent going to the police or to court and the media not getting wind of it. Few people are probably so heroic in real life as to not file a multimillion dollar damage claim against the hospital in court which they would probably win. This probably would have been a more gripping reading experience if those real-life elements were present in the story and if the characters had to work out their problems under that glare. A subplot involving the widower's sister-in-law wanting to be his next wife is used instead to create conflict but it reads too much like a simplistic contrivance by the author to create more conflict. The sister-in-law is created in such broad strokes that I thought at one point she was going to turn into a murderess just to make her a complete "stock character." This is one of those instances where the book really deserves a 3.5 star grading but Amazon does not include half a star ratings in its system. I'd like to see another author tackle this same premise and really turn up the heat in the story's conflict.

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Summary: Emotional, Gripping Story
Review: Patricia Kay has been a favorite author of mine for years, and she just keeps getting better and better. The Wrong Child is an amazing story that will haunt you long after the final page has been turned. What would you do if you learned that you did not give birth to the child you've loved and adored as your own? What if you learned that a stranger has been raising your birth daughter all these years and to confront him, to discover the fate of your long-lost child, might also mean losing the child you thought was yours? Such is the decision the heroine in The Wrong Child must make, and the emotions her journey invokes are powerful and all-too human. I'm not a sentimental person, nor a particularly emotional one, but this book moved me to tears time and again. Five stars doesn't do it justice.

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Summary: A Moving, Thought-Provoking Story
Review: The WRONG CHILD is a fast-paced, gripping novel about one of the most heart-wrenching conflicts a family can face. But McKay skillfully writes beyond a story that is impressive in and of itself and makes an important statement about extended family values--and even our humanity. Recommended.