| The Surrogate Contributor(s): Wall, Judith Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743258517 ISBN-13: 9780743258517 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: In this suspenseful work by the author of "A Good Man," a young woman decides to help a famous couple bear the child they couldn't have--and finds herself entangled in a deadly family secret. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary - Fiction | Medical - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005054090 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.01" W x 9.02" (1.14 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Locality - Houston, Texas |
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| Publisher Description: To a penniless twenty-year-old like Jamie Long, surrogate motherhood seemed both an act of altruism and a financial opportunity. But once pregnant and under contract to Amanda Hartmann, the head of a famous evangelical family, Jamie realizes that she's getting more than she bargained for. Whisked away to the vast, isolated family ranch, she's closely supervised and carefully cut off from the outside world. She learns the family's dark secrets -- and sees the enormity of their ruthlessness. When Jamie hears Amanda's plan to claim the baby as her natural-born child, she begins to suspect that her own life is in danger and resolves to flee. Alone with a tiny newborn, she calls on the one man in the world she can trust -- her high school crush, Joe Brammer. Their love unites them in a struggle to escape, and soon enough their flight becomes a fight for their lives. Brilliantly weaving some of today's most controversial social issues into a captivating page-turner, The Surrogate is Judith Henry Wall's greatest triumph to date. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wall, Judith Henry: - Judith Henry Wall is the author of several previous novels, including The Girlfriends Club, My Mother's Daughter, If Love Were All, Blood Sisters, and Love and Duty. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma. |