Dr. Dooley McSweeny and his wife, Claudia, dearly love the son they adopted from Russia four years ago. But when medical tests indicate that their little boy could not possibly have come from Russia, the couple is plunged into the dark, complex, and emotionally fraught world of international adoption.
Who is their son? Where did he come from? How did he come to them? The answers to these questions threaten to destroy their marriage, their happiness--and their lives--as they explode a powder keg of betrayal and deceit.
Praise for Barbara D'Amato
"With brutal clarity, the story rushes toward an inevitable conclusion, the strength not in its surprise but in D'Amato's power to play the strong emotional material and create an all too believable tale of intrigue and greed."
--The Houston Chronicle
"Another D'Amato stunner... D'Amato knows how to wring suspense out of her subjects... Fraught with tension... complex but riveting."
--Booklist
