From Publishers Weekly
In Michaels's fable-like latest, wicked South Carolina heiress Sarabess Windsor must face the fallout of a decision she made 30 years ago: when her beloved daughter was diagnosed with a potentially fatal illness, doting Sarabess hatched a plan to bear another child solely as a source of bone marrow for little Emily. Donor daughter Trinity, unaware of her parentage, spent her childhood in closely monitored foster care, but forced, like the other children in town, to fawn endlessly over Emily, whose life is extended 13 years by her sister's cells. When Trinity runs away at 15, Sarabess makes sure no one tries to find her, but hapless father Harold, on his deathbed, sets up a trust for Trinity to claim on her 30th birthday. Several months before that day, Sarabess begins to try to finagle the funds for her own use. While Sarabess is without any redeeming qualities, her Trinity is anything but. Readers will root for the plucky heroine and her childhood friend Jake (a lawyer, natch). The finale's shocking revelations are just that, as Michaels, who was written more than 80 novels, somehow does it again. (Aug.)
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Sarabess Windsor committed an act that would shock most people: she had a second child for the sole purpose of providing bone marrow for her firstborn. Not only that, she arranged for the couple who oversee her land in Crestwood, South Carolina, to raise the child. Throughout what was left of her first daughter's life, she would force the neighborhood children, including her donor daughter, Trinity, to play with her, which was never a cheering prospect because she was a spoiled brat. Trinity ran away at age 15, and was never found. Now that she's turning 30, she will come into a large inheritance from her father. Sarabess is determined to find Trinity before that day, because all of her nefarious deeds have yet to come to light, and she wants attorney Jake Forrest, Trinity's former friend, to find her. Longing to see Trinity again, he agrees. The tirelessly inventive and entertaining Michaels creates yet another unique situation for her characters, and that, plus her famous snappy dialogue, is enough to recommend her latest. Hatton, Maria