Babies are Big Money in today’s world and it is about time that people who are looking to adopt a baby realize this. Many "First Mothers" (birth mothers) are not even aware of just how close they might have come to this story in their own lives. Birth mothers are often coerced into giving up their babies at the last moment before signing by family, counselors, and agents who are thought to be or should be acting in the mothers’ best interests, but often that is not the actual case. And many babies are in one way or another "stolen" from that birth mother for profit in any of its many forms.

I am a "First Mother" (birth mother) to those uninitiated to the words of adoption. As such, I have often thought about the things that my two babies must have felt and wanted to know and how they were told by their adoptive parents. I had worried about how my actions made them look at the world differently than other children who were being reared by "natural parents" and that they might not have felt comfortable or wanted in any world. I was lucky; I found both of my babies and wrote a book about my experiences in adoption called Notes from Nobody. Neither of my babies were sold or stolen or deprived, but those thoughts and fears did cross my mind when there were articles on TV or in the papers about Black Market Baby Selling.

Evil Exchange tells a gripping story about an adoptee (Todd) who has always wondered, but taken an attitude of not caring, about the longing and of denying those inner needs and feelings. He has a very intense and dangerous job that deals with a great danger, and there is a Baby Ring where murder and kidnapping is a common end to the mothers. Gut-wrenching heartbreak is a possible outcome if the adoptive parents and the actual adoptee ever find out the truth. When a Baby Selling Ring is involved in an adoption, there is almost certainly never a way for that adoptee to ever really find out where he/she came from and who the First Parents actually were. That is so very sad for the adoptee, because that bit of missing information is completely integral to their actually finding and making peace within themselves.

Evil Exchange is a MUST READ by anyone who has ever been involved in any adoptive issues, as well as the general public, so that they can understand the many ramifications that the adoptee and "First Mother" go through. Co-authors Paris and Soll put their personal knowledge and abilities to work on a most heartrending issue and came up with a fantastic read along the way. I read it in about a day and a half -that is how interested and engrossed I was in this wonderful book. Thank you Lori and Joe for the effort, and the story to make it all so real. I know how much this book means to both of you and how much you agonized in writing it. My own book was written while I was crying my heart out, so I know that you both must have gone through a wringer of emotions.