Frances Arrington

On the same night her mother gave birth to her stillborn sister, Colleen was given a baby by a desperate woman who wanted to keep the baby away from her abusive husband, yet her family mistakenly believes the child is theirs and now Colleen must decide whether to tell them the heartbreaking truth.

12-year-old Colleen is stuck between a rock and a hard place. When her own baby sister is still born and while on her way to the neighbors finds a dying woman who has given birth to a healthy baby and begs her to take the baby, a watch and a box for he baby and not to give it to her husband, Colleen switches the babies. Suspense builds when the baby's father comes looking for the watch and box.

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