Not Yours to Keep
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Synopsis
Called a “sensational debut” by Rhea Frey, this psychological thriller delves into themes of reproductive rights and healthcare, confronting the complexities that define family—or the risks that lose it all.
Billie Campbell, a Massachusetts adoption specialist grappling with fertility issues, dreams of adopting a baby, but not just any baby—her pregnant client’s baby. While her longing threatens to send her down a dark path, her husband, Tyler, is keeping secrets: he’s full of doubts about becoming a father, and he’s also trying to figure out who is sending him upsetting anonymous texts and photos. On the other side of town, Anne, a woman scarred by childhood abuse, obsesses with a second chance at becoming a family with the two people she regrets ever having let go of: the baby she gave up for adoption twenty years ago and the man of her dreams.
Their lives become entangled when the client’s newborn is abducted, and Billie becomes a prime suspect.
Amid the chaos unleashed by the abduction, Tyler uncovers a link between the person tormenting him and the abduction—but now Billie has disappeared too. The race to find both her and the baby is on; but will they find them before it’s too late?
Release date: October 8, 2024
Publisher: She Writes Press
Print pages: 256
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I love a read that draws me in and makes me feel for every character. From Billie the adoption social worker trying to have her own child, to Tyler - Billie's husband- a lawyer who is being stalked, to Anne who as a very young teen gave her own child up for adoption, to all the side characters ALL these people have complex personalities and motivations as well their own aspects of bodily and reproductive rights that make this s...
I love a read that draws me in and makes me feel for every character. From Billie the adoption social worker trying to have her own child, to Tyler - Billie's husband- a lawyer who is being stalked, to Anne who as a very young teen gave her own child up for adoption, to all the side characters ALL these people have complex personalities and motivations as well their own aspects of bodily and reproductive rights that make this story one that anyone - man or woman, mother or child, husband or wife, innocent or victim - can learn from and feel for. Empathy - in one word that is what this book will leave you with after the mystery is solved.
This is a wonderfully written exploration of so many contemporary social issues and it is a work of fiction that is more than can be captured in a term like domestic thriller or suspense. This is women's fiction, but one that truly brings in the male perspective of infertility treatment, abu5e, vio1ence, adoption, family and psychology. I loved that each of the main characters got their chance to speak directly to me. And by allowing me to see how they each thought and felt directly, Ruskin made this book a gripping psychological drama!
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