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Not My Daughter
Paperback
Series: Good Mothers, Book 8
Publisher: Elise Thorn
Published: Jun 4 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Sable Kincaid is a science teacher. She teaches genetics to seventh graders at a prestigious Atlanta academy. She is methodical, rational, precise. She packs her daughter's lunch every morning, grades papers every evening, and has organized her entire life into a series of controllable outcomes.
Then a routine school DNA-testing program delivers a result that destroys everything she believed: her twelve-year-old daughter Mila shares zero genetic markers with either parent.
Zero. Not low. Not partial. Zero.
Sable does what a scientist does - she pulls the data. She requests the hospital records from the night Mila was born. What she finds is worse than an error: three pages of the nursery log are missing. The head nurse is dead. The attending physician is hiding behind his reputation. And a wealthy Atlanta philanthropist named Patrice Adair - a woman who funded the very maternity wing where Mila was delivered - was signed into the building at 3:22 a.m. on the night of the birth.
Across town, Jolene Marsh is a real estate agent living behind the polished surface of a Sandy Springs life. Beautiful house. Wealthy husband. Two children. A mother-in-law who controls everything. But her twelve-year-old daughter Harper has always been different - quiet, perceptive, unknowable. A girl with dark eyes that match no one in the family. A girl Jolene has loved fiercely and never quite understood.
When Sable's investigation collides with Jolene's carefully staged world, both women are forced to confront an unthinkable truth: their daughters were deliberately switched as newborns. Not by accident. Not by negligence. By design.
Patrice Adair, upon learning that a prenatal genetic screening had flagged a hereditary condition in her own biological grandchild, used her money, her influence, and a chain of compromised medical professionals to place her granddaughter into another family's arms - and took a stranger's healthy baby in return.
Now two mothers must face the question that no parent should ever have to answer: What makes a child yours - the blood that runs through her veins, or the twelve years of bedtime stories and packed lunches and arguments about screen time that built her into who she is?
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