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Book Review of The Switch

The Switch
The Switch
Author: Sandra Brown
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
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Identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd haven't switched identities since they were children. Now in their late thirties, Melina talks Gillian into switching identities once again. After hearing her biological clock ticking, Gillian decides to be artificially inseminated at an exclusive fertility treatment center, The Waters Clinic. At lunch that day, she tells Melina what she has done and Melina decides Gillian needs a night on the town. She also has the perfect evening planned for her sister. Since Melina hates Gillian's boyfriend, Jem Hennings, she decides that Gillian needs a change and talks her into taking her place as the media escort of a famous, gorgeous and very sexy Native American astronaut, "Chief" Hart. Hoping that her sister would hit if off with someone other than Hennings, little did Melina know just how well they would get along and what sinister outcome would result from this meeting.

When Gillian's mutilated body is discovered in her home the next morning, the story begins to go from a fast paced to a high-speed journey of intrigue and mystery. Melina is devastated by the death of her sister and vows to find answers. All the leads keep coming back to a high profile TV evangelist known as Brother Gabriel, who isn't as saintly as his followers seem to believe. Seems Brother Gabriel has his own ideas for creating a New World Order that involves him populating the world with his own offspring. Since the conventional methods hadn't produced the amount of children he needed for this conspiracy, he turned to modern medicine to help him. Yes, donor sperm at fertility clinics around the world had been substituted with his sperm.