The Baby Merchant - Hardcover

Reed, Kit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765315505 ISBN 13: 9780765315502

Publisher: Tor: NY, 2006

Synopsis

The baby merchant can afford to be discriminating. He is very good at what he does. In our hard-driving consumer culture, people will do anything to get what they want, but what if all you want is a baby of your own? Among careerists who postpone parenthood, fertility problems abound. Adoptions have always been difficult and now you can forget about "shopping" abroad because America s borders were closed by the Centers for Disease Control. Babies are high end commodities in this economy, microchipped at birth to protect them from theft. When medicine fails you and you can't adopt, Tom Starbird's your man. Soft-spoken, as charming as he is efficient, the baby merchant will steal a child for you. For a price. If you pass his tests. This is Starbird s mission in life. He rescues "unwanted" babies and delivers them to loving homes. But even do-gooders get tired. Tom is shutting up shop when hard-driving Jake Zorn, the Television Conscience of Boston, blackmails him into doing one last job. His barren wife Maury wants a baby but there are reasons why they can't adopt. Zorn will do whatever it takes to bring one home. A conscientious provider, Tom locates a supplier. Translation: a mother with a child she doesn't want. This brings him up against lovely, rebellious Sasha Egan, an artist planning to have her baby and give it up. Stalked by her unborn child's father, Sasha is on the run. She has no way of knowing that Starbird has targeted her. Or that the baby she never wanted is the one thing in life she will do anything to keep.

About this title

About the Authors

Kit Reed is the author of the Alex Award-winning Thinner Than Thou and many other novels. Her most recent short fiction collection is Dogs of Truth. Reed has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award; collections of her short fiction have been finalists for the James W. Tiptree Award. Kit Reed lives in Middletown, CT and teaches at Wesleyan University.

Kit Reed is the author of the Alex Award-winning Thinner Than Thou and many other novels. Her most recent short fiction collection is Dogs of Truth. Reed has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award; collections of her short fiction have been finalists for the James W. Tiptree Award. Kit Reed lives in Middletown, CT and teaches at Wesleyan University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tor: NY
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765315505
• ISBN 13: 9780765315502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334