The Baby Merchant

Kit Reed

Macmillan, Sep 4, 2007 - Fiction - 336 pages

Among careerists who postpone parenthood, fertility problems abound. Adoptions have always been difficult and now America's borders have been closed by the Centers for Disease Control. Babies are high end commodities in this economy, microchipped at birth to protect them from theft.
Tom Starbird rescues "unwanted" babies--but he's tired of meeting wealthy would-be parents' demands for "perfect" children. Tom is shutting up shop when Jake Zorn, the Television Conscience of Boston, blackmails him into doing one more job.
Desperate to find one last perfect baby, Tom finds the lovely and very pregnant Sasha Egan. Stalked by her unborn child's father, on the run--Tom guesses she will be glad to be rid of her burden. Neither he nor Sasha could predict that the baby she never wanted is the one thing in her life she will do anything to keep.

Contents

• Section 1: 15
• Section 2: 29
• Section 3: 36
• Section 4: 50
• Section 5: 57
• Section 6: 69
• Section 7: 82
• Section 8: 106
• Section 9: 126
• Section 10: 133
• Section 11: 147
• Section 12: 154
• Section 13: 164
• Section 14: 172
• Section 15: 177
• Section 16: 183
• Section 17: 191
• Section 18: 201
• Section 19: 213
• Section 20: 223
• Section 21: 230
• Section 22: 236
• Section 23: 248
• Section 24: 257
• Section 25: 266
• Section 26: 273
• Section 27: 281
• Section 28: 292
• Section 29: 295
• Section 30: 297
• Section 31: 302
• Section 32: 310
• Section 33: 322
• Section 34: 328
• Section 35: 333

About the author

Kit Reed was born Lillian Craig in San Diego, California on June 7, 1932. She received a bachelor's degree from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1954. In the 1950's, she worked as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times and for the New Haven Register. She was an author who wrote novels and stories in various genres for children, teens, and adults. Her short story collections included Mister Da V. and Other Stories; The Revenge of the Senior Citizens; Thief of Lives; Weird Women, Wired Women; Dogs of Truth; What Wolves Know; and The Story Until Now. Her books included Armed Camps, Fort Privilege, @Expectations, Bronze, The Baby Merchant, The Night Children, Son of Destruction, Where, and Mormama. She also wrote several novels under the pen name Kit Craig and a horror novel, Blood Fever, under the pen name Shelley Hyde. She died several months after being diagnosed with a brain tumor on September 24, 2017 at the age of 85.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Baby Merchant
• Author: Kit Reed
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2007
• ISBN: 0765315572, 9780765315571
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Thrillers / General