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 Surrogate written by Toni Halleen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Surrogate is a thrilling, high-stakes debut centering on a vulnerable newborn and two women who will do almost anything to claim her as their daughter. With a collection of vividly rendered characters, this twisty tale will leave you thinking about the true meaning of motherhood long after you turn the last page. I loved it!”—Patry Francis, bestselling author of All the Children Are Home Ruth is a no-nonsense fortysomething journalist from the Midwest, desperate for a child with her new husband, Hal. Their hope rests with Cally, a nineteen-year- old who wants to go to college—but doesn’t have the cash. The arrangement seems perfect for everyone. But within a day of the baby’s birth, Cally has a change of heart—and engineers a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn. When Ruth and Hal discover that Cally and their daughter are gone, a whole series of doubts and secrets is revealed, and the difference between right and wrong is no longer clear. Set in the vast, sparsely populated upper reaches of northern Minnesota in the middle of winter, The Surrogate follows Ruth, Hal, Cally, through a maze of thought-provoking questions about the nature of family, love, and relationships: What would you do for your partner, when the going gets tough? How much is a pregnancy “worth”? And who, if anyone, “deserves” to be a mother? With its realistic portrayal of surrogacy and motherhood, 'The Surrogate' is a thought-provoking novel that will stay with you long after you've finished reading. Toni Halleen's writing is both literary and suspenseful, making this a must-read for fans of psychological thrillers and domestic dramas.

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 Pathways to Parenthood written by Stacy Ziegler and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathways to Parenthood is a how-to guide to Surrogacy. It covers Gestational Surrogacy via IVF as well as Traditional Surrogacy via Artificial Insemination. The mystery that surrounds Surrogacy is demystified and everything is broken down into layman's terms. This book will take you from deciding if Surrogacy is the right path for you, to contact with your surrogate after the delivery and everything in between. You will learn about the legal, medical, as well as the emotional aspects of choosing Surrogacy as your pathway to parenthood. You will be given the pros and cons of using an agency as well as going about it on your own.

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 A Surrogate Love Affair written by Jaimie Roberts and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never believed in fate. Destiny was something magical, something written in the stars. I was a world away from having that kind of excitement in my life. I was alone, praying for a baby, that little miracle I could hold in my arms. My husband fought me at every turn, but I knew I would break him down one day. It was just a matter of time. In the end, fate took the shape of my best friend and her husband, who were desperate for a baby. Desperate for that miracle, that hope, that joy in their lives. I wanted to give that to them. I wanted them to have the family they were striving for. With my help, they would finally have everything they ever wanted. On the day I found out their little miracle was coming, fate intervened again. It would turn my world upside down, shattering my life into a million pieces. It was on that day I realised things were about to become really complicated.

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 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 Delivering Hope written by Pamela MacPhee and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Surrogate written by Judith Henry Wall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Secret Germany written by Robert Edward Norton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important and influential poets to have written in German. In this first full biography of George to apear in any language, Robert E. Norton traces the poet's life and rise to fame.

Download or read book The House of Hidden Mothers written by Meera Syal and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shyama, a forty-eight-year-old London divorcée, already has an unruly teenage daughter, but that doesn't stop her and her younger lover, Toby, from wanting a child together. Their relationship may look like a cliché, but despite the news from her doctor that she no longer has any viable eggs, Shyama's not ready to give up on their dream of having a baby. So they decide to find an Indian surrogate to carry their child, which is how they meet Mala, a young woman trapped in an oppressive marriage in a small Indian town from which she's desperate to escape. But as the pregnancy progresses, they discover that their simple arrangement may be far more complicated than it seems. In The House of Hidden Mothers, Meera Syal, an acclaimed British actress and accomplished novelist, takes on the timely but underexplored issue of India's booming surrogacy industry. Western couples pay a young woman to have their child and then fly home with a baby, an easy narrative that ignores the complex emotions involved in carrying a child. Syal turns this phenomenon into a compelling, thoughtful novel already hailed in the UK as "rumbustious, confrontational and ultimately heartbreaking . . . Turn[s] the standard British-Asian displacement narrative on its head" (The Guardian). Compulsively readable and with a winning voice, The House of Hidden Mothers deftly explores subjects of age, class, and the divide between East and West.

Download or read book Surrogate Evil written by David Thurlo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navajo state police officer Lee Nez teams up with FBI agent Diane Lopez to stop Newton Glover, a criminal bottom-feeder who seems to have supernatural abilities.

Download or read book The Billionaire s Surrogate written by Cher Etan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete story with no cliff hanger. Money is nothing without someone to love. Max is a billionaire with a lot going for him. He has the money, the looks, and a personality to boot. But when diagnosed with prostate cancer, his life turns around in an instant. Everything that was once important now seems trivial to him, and he soon realizes he hasn't achieved his one main goal in life: Having a baby. With his cancer treatment predicted to leave him sterile, he decides hiring a surrogate mother to bare his child is the best option. And Christine, a relative of his house keeper, agrees to the role. But soon after the process, further tests reveals Max doesn't have cancer after all and won't become infertile. Now the question of where this leaves him and Christine arises. Will she simply remain the mother of his child? Or will an even more personal relationship form from this unexpected turn of events? Find out in this touching love filled romance by Cher Etan. Suitable for over 18s only due to passionate love making scenes likely to leave you needing a cold shower. Don't miss out, get your copy now.

Download or read book A Matter of Trust written by Gail Dutton and published by Clouds Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MATTER OF TRUST: THE GUIDE TO GESTATIONAL SURROGACY by Gail Dutton. (Gestational surrogacy: Surrogate mother carries the genetic child of another couple). This is the only guidebook to gestational surrogacy. Learn how couples save time, money & their sanity. * Surrogacy programs: What they offer & how to choose one; * Surrogates: Questions to ask prospective surrogates; * Medical concerns: What to expect, side-effects & embryo cryopreservation; * Expenses: Detailed fees & how to save money; * Contracts: "Must-include" clauses; * Laws: U. S. state surrogacy laws & laws in 12 other nations; * Goodbye: Ending the surrogacy partnership. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: "A MATTER OF TRUST has insights & information that you won't find anywhere else. If you're thinking about building your family through gestational surrogacy. put it on your must-read list."--Shirley Zager, Director, the Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy. "It's a fantastic book! I would love for everyone going through surrogacy to read this."--Cristie Montgomery, Director, Surrogate Parenting Services. ISBN: 0- 9655966-0-5. U. S. $21.95. Internet: http://www.clouds-publishing.com. Available April 1997 from: Clouds Publishing, 5319 University Dr., #348, Irvine, CA 92612-2935. Phone: (714) 786-4606.

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 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.