look again

***** a 5 star read
OMG!!! WOW!! words cannot express how much i loved this book. i might be a little more emotional than other readers because i am pregnant, but i must say this book broke my heart and also made me happy. so, after reading this i have to ask. If you had a child that you took care of as your own and is legally yours would you give it up when you found out the child was stolen? I would die before i would do that. i know that is selfish and blah blah blah but judge away!

this book is about a reporter named Ellen. she worked very hard and one day she did a piece at a hospital. she saw a little boy with tubes in his nose and fighting for his life. days went by and no one came for the child. she thought it was weird that their wasn't any parents concerned for this child. she asked around and found out that child was left and he was waiting to be adopted. Ellen did everything in her power to adopt that little boy. so, now according to the common wealth of Pennsylvania the little boy was hers.

Will is now 3 years old and attends pre school. is a normal little boy, and has mother who worries sick about him because of his previous medical history. he has a babysitter that you could call a nanny because she is there all the time and helped raised him. her name is connie. she would do anything for that child and for Ellen.

Ellen one day looked at her mail and saw a post card for a missing child. they get these junk mail all the time, but this time the child looked like her little will. she folded it and kept it in her back pocket. she continued her daily routine and had trouble completing her work at the newspaper because she kept looking at this picture for a missing child. Ellen then went on the internet and started to research about this missing child. the child's name was timothy. he was stolen out of a car in a car jacking and the nanny was killed. the family paid the ransom money, but killer never returned the child. she printed out the papers and continued to do her research.

Ellen called her lawyer who did the adoption process for her and she found out horrible news. her lawyer killed herself. Ellen did some digging and was able to get her old case file. she was putting all the papers together when she found the paper that had the mother, father and witness signatures for the removing of parental rights. she was going to call the mother. she knew she shouldn't start digging because if she was right she didn't know how she would be able to give away will. she kept telling herself that the adoption was legal she had the judges signature and she was safe, right? after not being able to fight the mother she found the grandmother and here comes the twist.
the grandmother hasn't herd from the mother in over 5 years. Ellen told her that couldn't have happen because she showed the paper were she was supposedly witness her daughter sign her rights away. the grandmother said that was her daughters signature but not hers. the same thing happened with the sister. now Ellen knew something was wrong with her adoption.

while playing hookie at work she decided that she was going to find out more about this child that was missing. she ended up flying to Florida and stalking the parents of the missing child. she saw the mother and the father and stole cigarette butts and a soda can and put them in a brown bag for a DNA test. she was going to figure this out once and for all. now while doing this digging she found a picture of the mother who she thought was the mother of will and her boyfriend. the boyfriend looked just like the picture of the man who killed the nanny and stole the baby of the child she was researching. Ellen knew in her heart that will was this family's baby.

after sending away all the samples and waiting for the results she continued to dig about this missing child. everyone who knew about the baby was ending up dead. the lawyer killed herself, the mother how she thought was the mother was murdered, and now everything fell into place and Ellen knew her and will were in danger. right then and there she and will was attacked and now facing the man who killed the nanny and stole the baby. to make matters worse the mother of the missing child started pounding on the door demanding that Ellen give her the baby back. The FBI got involved and took will right from Ellen and will was screaming for his mother because for his whole life that is all he knew.
i will not spoil the book for you but be prepared for heartache and evil madness, and maybe some happiness you never know. i have to tell you that if you are a mother you will defiantly shed tears after reading this book. it had a great ending and it was the best book i have read this year.