The Thief's Only Child
2011
First Published
3.56
Average Rating
405
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When is a child no longer yours? When she dies? A year later? Two years? For Diane Haines the answer is never. She will never forget her baby girl, and will never forgive Roberta Fenner, the woman who caused her death. Six years later she discovers that Roberta is going back to prison, leaving her own four-year-old in state custody. For Diane the situation is crystal Roberta owes her a child. It's only fair. But Diane doesn't expect to love little Lisa so much—as much as she loved her own child. Keeping Lisa hidden from her birth mother becomes more than just vengeance against Roberta. It becomes a terrifying need to protect Lisa at all costs. When you've lost a child, can you ever get her back? Roberta has never stopped loving her daughter—or shaken off the shame for what a neglectful mother she once was. Upon her release from prison she begins her search. She's always imagined her daughter in a happy home, loved by good people, and it's not her intention to interfere in their lives. But when she discovers her child was somehow adopted by the very same woman whose daughter she caused the death of, she fears the worst. Could Diane be satisfying some twisted need for revenge upon an innocent child? Now nothing will stop Roberta from finding the child Diane has stolen from her.
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Author
Rexanne Becnel
Author · 22 books
Rexanne Becnel is the author of more than twenty historical romance and contemporary mainstream novels, many of which appeared on the USA Today bestseller list. With the publication of her first novel, My Gallant Enemy, Becnel won the Waldenbooks Award for Best First-Time Romance Author and the Romantic Times Award for Best Medieval Romance by a New Author. While growing up, Becnel lived for a time in Germany and England, where she became fascinated by medieval history. After studying architecture at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, she worked as a building inspector for the Vieux Carré Commission, the agency of the City of New Orleans charged with protecting and preserving the distinct architectural and historic character of the French Quarter. Becnel lives in New Orleans with her husband and two children.
