OK, so "The Friendship Test" went by the wayside, because two days ago I received this one from Amazon.com, for 3.93 +shipping!!! Oh Boy, you must read this!!! I am on the 6
th chapter I think...and it is amazing so far! Here is the synopsis:
THE TRUTH TELLER is a fast-paced race to outrun evil and discover truth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
A five-year-old boy can sense who is telling the truth...and who isn't. It's a gift some will do anything to silence and a mother will do anything to protect.
Lara Godfrey desperately wants to have a child--a living legacy from her late husband. Placing her life in the hands of a doctor she believes she can trust, Lara doesn't
realize a web of deception is being woven around her. An unseen voyeur, with dreams of immortality, plans to use the child for a test--an unbelievable experiment that could have genetic consequences not only for Lara's baby, but for the entire human race. In the face of danger, Lara must make impossible choices. That's why she flees the clinic before the baby's birth. It's why she changes her name and hides. She knows she must protect this gifted child who can see through lies and identify truth. Yet how can an innocent truth-telling boy survive in a world that wants to destroy truth at any cost?
OK, It is one of those books
where each chapter unfolds one part of the story...It starts with the discovery of an iceman, who by estimates is 51 centuries old. The evil billionaire talks a couple of foolish scientists into selling him a small section of the skin from the "Iceman". The scientists who are speculating on whether or not they will be discovered by the authorities (for selling a piece of the iceman", they open the gift from "Devin" - a box packaged as rare wine...ends up as something else entirely.....
The billionaire, Devin...believes the "Iceman" was the
epitome of human perfectness...and holds the key.....
Flash to : Lara, a very spiritual woman, who has just lost her husband to cancer. She prays and prays to the Lord, desperately wanting to mother her deceased husbands child. (he froze his little guys at a
cryo bank before his treatment). She asks the Lord for a sign, and receives it...
She is Physicians
Assistant, (
conveniently working for the wife of a famed geneticist "
Hemlut").
She approaches her boss, "Olivia", and her mother-in-law "Eva" asking what they think of her becoming a mother...they strongly disapprove of her decision to have "Michael's" baby..."Olivia" because she
doesn't want to lose a valued employee, and also believes Lara is substituting the baby for Michael... and "Eva" because she is scared of losing another loved one (she lost her
husband and only son within a few years of each other).
Don't be fooled though..."Eva" seems very shallow. She is a society climber who is worried what "others" will say, she just wants to forget all her loss, and move on. She is self-described as "not mother material". She had a child because it was impossible to be accepted in proper society without one, and she worried about her son everyday until he left her house, "too much" according to her. Her husband was a wealthy architect, while her son was an "artist". She actually accused Lara of wanting a stake in her family fortune...(Lara was disgusted by the accusation and actually never gets the courage to tell her the IV took.)
When MIL stops by unexpectedly after returning from the summer in Europe, she is definitely not prepared to find a 5 month pregnant Lara when she arrives. She also sees Conner (the next-door neighbor who was "
Michael's" friend). He was helping Lara carry in groceries, so Eva assumes that He is the father...She leaves in a huff.
Connor senses Lara awkwardness with her MIL, (something Michael never did, "sensed how she was feeling")and he brings her flowers to cheer her up and she reacts
negatively (she was caught off guard). She hasn't felt anything for a man since Michael. She rationalizes it, and after some thought, she goes over to apologize to Connor and offers to cook him dinner.
So..a few chapters pass as Lara
prepares for the IV (
invitro fertilization) procedure...while "Devin" also prepares
Helmut...
Lara had to promise her boss and her MIL, that the "
specimen" will be checked for genetic markers (for
possibility of passing on the "bone cancer" gene from Michael)
Helmut checks and finds the marker (gene) (per Devin...he will replace the "flawed" DNA with the Iceman's DNA)...while Devin tells him that Lara will carry his genetically altered "son". He promises...Lara will NOT be harmed...
Devin has set up a new
children's hospital, for genetic research. This is the cover up!!! He pours tons of $$$ into this new "hospital" designed to help those less fortunate, all the while "Devin" plans on creating a new form of humankind...better, stronger, smarter than ever before.
So Lara, is now carrying Devin's genetically altered child...(
unbenownst to her...but who signs blank forms????? An intelligent woman, who works for a
Dr??? - that one I'm still wondering about.. when she is filling out the forms for the genetic testing, she comes to a blank piece of paper and asks about it, but
Helmut reassures her that it's just for any tests he's not sure she will need..."wouldn't want something to happen just because I
didn't have the proper form, right?" She signs it, only thinking of the baby...not realizing she has just signed a consent form to be a surrogate for the billionaire!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
More to come!!!
