![]() ![]() ![]() David is posing as a waiter but is in truth an FBI agent working white collar crime. Melanie has never remembered the first nine years of her life and has been having flashbacks lately. Why would the Stokes adopt the daughter of the man who killed their first child? It makes no sense her, but nonetheless she feels compelled by the story. Larry is a down on his luck reporter who believes he’s broken the story of the century – that Melanie Stokes is in truth Russell Lee Holmes’ long lost daughter. Suddenly, two people walk into her life who will change it forever – Larry Digger and David Riggs. Twenty years later, Melanie is all grown up and throwing a party for her charity at the Stokes’ home in Boston’s Beacon Hill area. This is only one of many coincidences and surprises in this novel. Oddly, the serial killer, Russell Lee Holmes, is put to death in Texas on the same night that Melanie is discovered at the hospital. ![]() ![]() Five years prior, The Stokes’ had lost their first daughter, Meagan, to a serial killer. Harper Stokes, a brilliant cardiac surgeon, helped to save her life and eventually he and his wife, Patricia, adopted her. She didn’t know who she was or where she came from. When Melanie Stokes was nine, she was found in a Boston hospital. In Lisa Gardner’s The Other Daughter, we meet the Stokes family, a wealthy Boston family with, as it turns out, a lot to hide. ![]()
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