Download or read book The Secret Surrogate written by Stephanie Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HER SURROGATE HAS VANISHED, ALONG WITH HER UNBORN BABY As a generous and respected philanthropist, Brooklyn Taylor is well aware that image is everything. Married, successful and living a life she created from scratch, Brooklyn only needs one thing to feel complete- a baby. Unable to have one, she hires a surrogate in secret. And then she gets a positive pregnancy test of her own. But, just weeks before their due dates, Brooklyn's surrogate vanishes and her perfectly crafted life begins to crumble. Desperate and running out of time, she does everything she can to find her missing baby before it is too late. But as she also tries to keep the disappearance, and her connection to the surrogate, under wraps, the media pounces on the story. Almost immediately the headlines turn against her in a flurry of secrets and lies. Her life, her business, and her family are all under attack. Why was the owner of an exclusive adoption center keeping a surrogate a secret? What happened to the heavily pregnant surrogate and Brooklyn's unborn child? Does her agency have anything to do with it? Does her husband? Does she? A Domestic Revenge Psychological Thriller

Download or read book The Baby Chase written by Leslie Morgan Steiner and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love comes a riveting new narrative about surrogate pregnancy from both sides of the equation—the parents and the gestational carrier. Once considered a desperate, even morally suspect option, surrogacy is now sweeping headlines, transforming the lives of celebrity mothers and fathers like Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman and Elton John, and changing the face of motherhood and the American family. But how much do we really know about it? And is it really as easy and accessible – emotionally, financially, legally and physically – as magazines make it out to be? We often hear about successful outcomes, but little about the journey – about the precious hope that starts it all, the ups and downs of finding a surrogate, the heartache and obstacles, the risks and expenses at every step, or the unbelievable joy when years of determination pay off. In The Baby Chase, acclaimed writer Leslie Morgan Steiner weaves three stories together — of a nurse, a firefighter, and the Indian gestational carriers and doctors who helped them — to provide one intensely personal look at what makes surrogacy so controversial, fascinating, and in some cases, the only ray of hope for today's infertile parents-to-be. Rhonda Wile and her husband Gerry struggled for years with infertility. With perseverance that shocked everyone around them, they tried every procedure and option available – unsuccessfully – until they finally decided to hire a surrogate. While surrogacy was being touted as a miracle for hopeful parents, for Rhonda and Gerry, it seemed an impossible and unaffordable dream. Until they came across the beaming smile of a beautiful Indian woman on the internet... and, within a few short months, embarked on a journey that would take them deep into the emerging world of Indian carriers, international medical tourism, and the global surrogacy community. Moving, page-turning, and meticulously researched, this complex human story is paired with an examination of the issues—religious, legal, medical and emotional—that shapes surrogacy as a solution both imperfect and life-changing.

Download or read book The Secret Surrogate written by Stephanie Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a generous and respected philanthropist, Brooklyn Taylor is well aware that image is everything. Married, successful and living a life she created from scratch, Brooklyn only needs one thing to feel complete- a baby. Unable to have one, she hires a surrogate in secret. And then she gets a positive pregnancy test of her own. But, just weeks before their due dates, Brooklyn's surrogate vanishes and her perfectly crafted life begins to crumble. Desperate and running out of time, she does everything she can to find her missing baby before it is too late. But as she also tries to keep the disappearance, and her connection to the surrogate, under wraps, the media pounces on the story. lmost immediately the headlines turn against her in a flurry of secrets and lies. Her life, her business, and her family are all under attack. Why was the owner of an exclusive adoption center keeping a surrogate a secret? What happened to the heavily pregnant surrogate and Brooklyn's unborn child? Does her agency have anything to do with it? Does her husband? Does she?

Download or read book Secret Surrogate written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KEEPING WATCH The last thing this Texas sheriff wanted was to heed afrantic late-night call from the woman who'd destroyedhis life. Old wounds were ripped wide-open afterLucas Creed discovered that his former deputy hadmoved on—and was pregnant to boot. But afterrescuing Kylie Monroe from hired guns and taking herunder his protection, she repaid him by dropping abombshell on his world-weary shoulders.…Kylie knew that her misstep in the line of duty hadcost Lucas everything. Now, as his secret surrogate,she planned to give the gruff lawman the ultimate giftto heal his heart—although it would break her own.When they teamed up to expose the corrupt manbehind the threats, would their glacial rift melt beneathan inferno of desire?

Download or read book Confessions of a Surrogate for Celebrities written by Anne Drea and published by Ttp Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Surrogate for Celebrities is a Sizzling HOT tell-all from a former surrogate who secretly carried babies for some of the world's richest, most famous celebrities. Amidst great speculation about celebrities pretending to be pregnant, incidents with deflated "pregnant" bellies, and almost instantaneous body-back-after-baby results, Confessions of a Surrogate for Celebrities comes clean about which celebrities secretly hired surrogates to carry their babies, and lets the world in on the secret life of Celebrity Surrogates. Confessions of a Surrogate for Celebrities gives dynamite clues that help us answer the questions we all knew we had, and lets us speculate about which celebrities only pretended to be pregnant. Get ready for the shock of your life, and BEWARE, because this book will take down some pretty big celebrities and reveal their pregnancy lies and secrets!

Download or read book Our Journey written by Richard Westoby and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fascinating personal story that describes from start to finish the journey of a couple based in the U.K. undertaking IVF and surrogacy in the U.S. Written as their story it is also a detailed step by step guide that aims to help those starting out on the road to parenthood via surrogacy. Each chapter is a different step of that journey and it gives the reader an incredibly detailed insight into what to expect along the way. The chapters end with very practical questions and tips that the reader should be asking. This book raises pertinent questions targeted specifically for intended parents to analyse what should be done and when. In highlighting certain issues it enables those embarking on the surrogacy journey to become much more informed about the issues that will come up. Although this book is about two men creating their family in the U.S it actually looks at the thought process and decisions required around IVF and surrogacy. It has been written in a way that anyone considering surrogacy can learn more about the journey and hopefully can gain insights into what to expect. It has been written so that the chapters are virtually stand-alone; if one part is not relevant it can be skipped and the next chapter read. The aims of the book are to demystify surrogacy and to simplify the decision making involved at every step. But the real goal of this book is to help others have a single unbiased reference guide on the whole IVF and surrogacy process.

Download or read book Full Surrogacy Now written by Sophie Lewis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the “family” The surrogacy industry is estimated to be worth over $1 billion a year, and many of its surrogates around the world work in terrible conditions—deception, wage-stealing and money skimming are rife; adequate medical care is horrifyingly absent; and informed consent is depressingly rare. In Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis brings a fresh and unique perspective to the topic. Often, we think of surrogacy as the problem, but, Full Surrogacy Now argues, we need more surrogacy, not less! Rather than looking at surrogacy through a legal lens, Lewis argues that the needs and protection of surrogates should be put front and center. Their relationship to the babies they gestate must be rethought, as part of a move to recognize that reproduction is productive work. Only then can we begin to break down our assumptions that children “belong” to those whose genetics they share. Taking collective responsibility for children would radically transform our notions of kinship, helping us to see that it always takes a village to make a baby.

Download or read book Discounted Life written by Sharmila Rudrappa and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharmila Rudrappa interrogates the creation and maintenance of reproductive labor markets, the function of agencies and surrogacy brokers, and how women become surrogate mothers. Is surrogacy solely a labor contract for which the surrogate mother receives wages, or do its meanings and import exceed the confines of the market? Rudrappa argues that this reproductive industry is organized to control and disempower women workers and yet her interviews reveal that, by and large, the surrogate mothers in Bangalore found the experience life affirming. Rudrappa explores this tension, and the lived realities of many surrogate mothers whose deepening bodily commodification is paradoxically experienced as a revitalizing life development.

Download or read book The Surrogate written by Louise Jensen and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today bestselling author of The Sister and The Gift, this is an unputdownable psychological thriller which asks how far we will go to create our perfect family. Kat and her husband Nick have tried everything to become parents, and are on the point of giving up. Then a chance encounter with Kat's childhood friend Lisa gives Kat and Nick one last chance to achieve their dream. But Kat and Lisa's history hides dark secrets. And there is more to Lisa than meets the eye. As dangerous cracks start to appear in Kat's perfect picture of happily-ever-after, she realizes that she must face her fear of the past to save her family...

Download or read book The Billionaire s Unwanted Surrogate written by Lena Skye and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biology student River-Lea Thompson's plan to be a surrogate mother for a rich billionaire and his wife was meant to be her way out of her debt problems. But she had no idea that her problems were only just beginning. Just weeks away from giving birth and Silicon Valley billionaire Matthew Chase has told River-Lea that he and his wife have separated and as a result the terms of the agreement will have to be adjusted. With Matthew's wife no longer interested in raising a baby with no connection to her, Matthew feels he has no choice but to suggest that he pay River-Lea to raise the baby for him. Can she possibly accept the billionaire's outrageous proposal? Or might there be another way to solve this predicament...

Download or read book Safeguarding the Surrogate written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’d brought him his greatest joy. Now he must save her life… Rancher Kara Holland’s hot on the trail of a murderer who’s been killing surrogates—like she was for her ill sister. But when Kara’s trap goes terribly wrong, she’s thrust headlong into the killer’s crosshairs…along with her sister’s widower, Deputy Daniel Logan. And as she and Daniel stay one frantic step ahead of a deadly foe, the sparks igniting between them rival the danger they face. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in the Mercy Ridge Lawmen series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Her Child to Protect Book 2: Safeguarding the Surrogate

Download or read book Love and Genetics written by Mark MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a family secret comes to light, lives are changed forever in this honest, beautiful, and sometimes painful memoir. When Mark, adopted at birth, set out to FIND his genetic family as an adult, he found something he never expected-three full-blood siblings, including a persistent sister who would alter the course of his life. He finds himself faced with the emotional task of coming to know his entire birth family, along with the unintended impact it has on his parents and his marriage. This raises age-old questions around the understanding of his own identity and his place in the world-now framed in extraordinarily real and explicit terms: What defines family? Nature or nurture? Life rarely affords such an opportunity for self-examination. The story focuses on the relationship that develops between Mark and his sister, Rachel, as they discover each other through constant letters and eventual face-to-face meetings. When Rachel learns that Mark and his wife are struggling with having children, a radical idea takes over-could she, a sister he never knew and still barely knows, one who lives on the other side of the country, possibly carry their child? Would they trust her to? Including original correspondence between Rachel, Mark, and their biological mother, Marilyn, Love & Genetics follows the events of a tumultuous year in an astonishing story of love, loss, and the meaning of family.

Download or read book The Very Kind Koala written by and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very kind koala is a delightful introduction to gestational surrogacy for young children (age 3 and up). Ever year, more children are conceived with the help of doctors, fertility clinics and surrogates. Reading The very kind koala with your child is a wonderful way to begin talking to them about this important issue.

Download or read book An Intimate Life written by Cheryl Cohen Greene and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting memoir from the woman behind the major motion picture The Sessions — and an intimate portrayal of sexuality in the 20th century. For the past 40 years, Cheryl Cohen Greene has worked as a surrogate partner, helping clients to form fulfilling sexual relationships. The men and women she works with have sexual phobias, disabilities, and problems with self-esteem. Often, her most important role as a surrogate is simply to show understanding. In this candid memoir, Cohen Greene shares some of her most memorable cases, including that of Berkeley-based poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio at age six. She also tells of her own sexual coming-of-age — from a rigid Catholic upbringing in the 1950s, where she was taught to think sex was unnatural and wrong, and then through the sexual revolution of 1960s and 1970s, an open marriage, an encounter with cancer, and a rich and rewarding career as a surrogate partner. An Intimate Life is more than the story of one woman's career as a sexual healer — it's a love story, a meditation on compassion and grief, and a tale of sexual and emotional awakening. Arresting and compelling, it gives an insight into this most unusual of professions, and those who take part in it.

Download or read book Handbook of Gestational Surrogacy written by E. Scott Sills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clinical handbook on gestational surrogacy, with thorough guidance for clinicians involved in global third-party reproductive treatment.

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Download or read book The Surrogate Mother written by Freida McFadden and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the best thrillers I've ever read!" --Amazon customer Abby wants a baby more than anything. But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer that will make all of Abby's dreams come true. But it turns out Monica isn't who she says she is. The woman now carrying Abby's child has an unspeakable secret. And she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.