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The Switch
The Switch
Author: Sandra Brown
ISBN-13: 9780743505147
ISBN-10: 074350514X
Publication Date: 9/1/2000
Edition: Abridged
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Audioworks-ABRIDGED
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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tioga avatar reviewed The Switch on + 167 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
Sandra Brown as good as ever. Mix in twins, indians, and FBI and local agents trying to solve Kidnappings, murders and suicides while being laughed at by an egomaniac and you get a great stew.

4 stars
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Helpful Score: 6
What happens when identical twins switch places for one night and one of them gets murdered ? Lots of twists and turns along with romance and deception. Excellent read.
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Helpful Score: 5
WOnderful, great till the last page.
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Helpful Score: 4
loved it! great read, couldn't put it down, spent my weekend reading this book and loved every minute of it. I love books about twin switching place especially when its so full of suspense.
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Helpful Score: 3
A real page turner until the end. If you like mysteries and who-done-its, you will enjoy this book. The story involves identical twins and the murder of one of them. Who killed her and why? The twists and turns in the story will keep you wanting to know what happens next.
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Helpful Score: 3
One of my favorite Sandra Brown's books. Very entertaining!
Buttons01 avatar reviewed The Switch on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This is typical Sandra Brown! She knows how to keep you coming back for more. The Switch will keep you guessing right to the end!!!
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Helpful Score: 2
Identical twins switch places and then one of them is murdered.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book has a lot of twists and turns that keep you interested. The story is better than the summary provided on the book.
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Helpful Score: 1
Another great one by Sandra Brown - could not put it down.
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Helpful Score: 1
very well written and when i thought i knew the end whoa wait a minute it will throw you for a loop.

alana.
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Helpful Score: 1
Another Sandra Brown twister. After identical twins trade places for an evening, one sister is brutally murdered. Lots of plot twists and surprises, most of which I didn't see coming. Well-plotted and presented.
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Helpful Score: 1
Identical twins Melina and Gillian in a novel of suspense, revenge, and unpredictable twists and turns.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book was really good. It was a little confusing in the beginning, but it makes the twists and turns that much more interesting.
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Helpful Score: 1
A true mystery right to the last page!
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Helpful Score: 1
good book.
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Helpful Score: 1
I normally keep all of my Sandra Browns but my sister cleaned out her bookshelf. So, I have a bunch of duplicates. This is a good story about twins who switch. One gets involved with a cult member and the other gets involved with an astronaut. Lots of plot twists and turns and suspense. I can definitely recommend this one.
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Helpful Score: 1
A good suspense and romance involved.
Bernelli avatar reviewed The Switch on + 266 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Pay attention & keep up-- very good read, and suspenceful!
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Helpful Score: 1
I love mysteries and Sandra Brown does a good job "of keeping you on the edge of your seat." The characters seem like real people and they are people you want to me. On a scale of 1 to 5 (1, lowest; 5,highest):5.
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Helpful Score: 1
Okay I admit, I didn't see the ending coming. Wow
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Helpful Score: 1
Another tightly plotted romantic mystery by a favorite author!
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Helpful Score: 1
i always wondered what it would be like to have a twin!!(not sure now i want one!)
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Helpful Score: 1
From the #1 bestselling author of The Alibi comes a new blockbuster thriller about a woman investigating the murder of her identical twin sister.

What began as a lark turned into tragedy...leaving Gillian Lloyd dead, the victim of a brutal and seemingly unmotivated crime. Her twin Melina, along with astronaut Chief Hart-with whom Gillian had been involved-disagrees with police that the homicide is an open and shut case. She vows to stop at nothing to learn the truth and avenge her twin's death. But Gillian's murder has a far-reaching impact that no one suspected or could even fathom. Soon, Melina is on the run from police, the FBI, and the mastermind whose evil plot to engineer the perfect switch could result in disastrous consequences on a global scale.
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Helpful Score: 1
It isn't the first time that identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd have switched identities. Yet it's the first time as adults that they've even considered the chldhood prank. Melina, the more impetuous twin, proposes that her identical circumspect sister take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut and national hero Colonel Christopher "Chief" Hart.
Although it's an enticing offer, Gillian declines for a very personal reason-she's preoccupied with whether or not the artificial insemination she underwent that day will be successful. Besides, she warns Melina, such a switch could have unexpected consequences.
Media-savvy Chief turns out to be an easy assignment for Melina-in fact the evening with him is as much pleasure as business. But the followig morning police arrive at Melina's door with the worst possible news: her beloved twin has been burtally murdered in her own bed. And on the walls, scrawled in blood, are obscenities directed at Gillian, along with insults toward Native Americans that disputably link Chief to the crime.
Dissatisfied with the official police investigation, Chief and Melina form a grudging alliance, strike out on their own...and find themselves uncovering more questions than answers. Mistrusting even the authorities claiming to protect them, on the run with their lives in danger, the two are soon following a crooked and bloody trail that inexplicably leads to Gillian's attempt to conceive a child...and to the threshold of an inner sanctum, where a megalomaniac hatches horrific schemes and lies in wait for Gillian's replacement, her identical twin-Melina.
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Helpful Score: 1
Must read.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book was a great book. One of my favorites by Sandra Brown. Everyone should read this book you will not be sorry that you did.
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Identical twins switch places, as they had not done since childhood. One will be murdered, but which one? and why? Excellent example of Brown's work.
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Great book and fast reading...
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it was ok
amichai avatar reviewed The Switch on + 368 more book reviews
Thriller. Aprox. 5 hours.

"A story that reveals the powerful, almost mystical bond between twins--a bond that compels a woman to go to impossible lengths to avenge her sister, THE SWITCH defies every prediction." from the cover.
Handlebars avatar reviewed The Switch on + 153 more book reviews
Identical twins are fair game for a thriller writer, and in The Switch, queen of suspense Sandra Brown (The Alibi, Standoff, Fat Tuesday) makes the most of an intricate setup involving Gillian and Melina Lloyd, a pair of thirtysomething Dallas beauties. When Gillian hears her biological clock ticking, she puts herself in the hands of the world-famous Waters Clinic and is artificially inseminated (as described in a somewhat plodding first chapter that omits no detail of the procedure). The action picks up when Gillian switches places with her twin, a media escort, and chauffeurs sexy astronaut Chief Hart around town. It turns out to be a fatal attraction, and suspicion falls on Chief when Gillian's mutilated body is found the next day.
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awesome story!!
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Loved It!!! Couldn't put it down, definitely kept me turning the pages and wondering what would happen next. Ms.Brown doesn't get so bogged down in details that the story stalls - it stays fast paced from page 1.
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5-CDs included. Great story, loved the suspense, revenge and illusion in this tale.
Satin43 avatar reviewed The Switch on + 157 more book reviews
It wouldn't be the first time that identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd switched identities, yet it's the first time as adults that they've even considered the prank. Melina, the more impetuous twin, proposes that her circumspect sister take her place as media escort to NASA astronaut and national hero Colonel Christopher "Chief" Hart. Gillian declines for a very personal reason -- she's preoccupied with whether or not the artificial insemination she underwent that day will be successful. Besides, she warns Melina, such a switch could have unexpected consequences. Identical twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd share all of their thoughts and experiences. However, each follows her own lifestyle and career path. Gillian is in real estate but wishes to start a family before it is too late. In her public relations position, Melina is assigned to escort a famous astronaut, Christopher "Chief" Heart. The next day Gillian is found, and the case is closed when the murderer is quickly tracked down and discovered to have committed suicide. But that special bond between twins tells Melina that there is more to this tragedy. With the aid of the Chief she sets out to find answers.
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great
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good book love reading it could not put it down
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Unreal....Page turner to the end.....
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woman,who are twins,agree to swicth places,one ends up murdered.this bok is a page turner.
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keeps you reading
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"It isn't the first time that identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd have switched identities. Yet it's first time as adults that they've even considered the childhood prank."
A definite page turner.
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Identical twins are fair game for a thriller writer, and in The Switch, queen of suspense Sandra Brown (The Alibi, Standoff, Fat Tuesday) makes the most of an intricate setup involving Gillian and Melina Lloyd, a pair of thirtysomething Dallas beauties. When Gillian hears her biological clock ticking, she puts herself in the hands of the world-famous Waters Clinic and is artificially inseminated (as described in a somewhat plodding first chapter that omits no detail of the procedure). The action picks up when Gillian switches places with her twin, a media escort, and chauffeurs sexy astronaut Chief Hart around town. It turns out to be a fatal attraction, and suspicion falls on Chief when Gillian's mutilated body is found the next day.
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typical Sandra Brown, good read.
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Twins who switch places or do they in this thriller.lots of twists and turns you are not expecting.
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very good story line...very suspensful...turning pages until the end!
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Identical twins are fair game for a thriller writer, and in The Switch, queen of suspense Sandra Brown makes the most of an intricate setup involving Gillian and Melina Lloyd, a pair of thirtysomething Dallas beauties. When Gillian hears her biological clock ticking, she puts herself in the hands of the world-famous Waters Clinic and is artificially inseminated (as described in a somewhat plodding first chapter that omits no detail of the procedure). The action picks up when Gillian switches places with her twin, a media escort, and chauffeurs sexy astronaut Chief Hart around town. It turns out to be a fatal attraction, and suspicion falls on Chief when Gillian's mutilated body is found the next day.
The dead woman's smarmy and enigmatic boyfriend, Jem Hennings, has a vested interest in focusing police efforts on Hart, but Melina has her own reasons for thinking him wrong. Jem's connection with a charismatic preacher known as Brother Gabriel is at the heart of this mildly creepy mystery, in which the plucky Melina tracks Brother Gabriel to his lair and uncovers his diabolical plot while simultaneously revealing her own dark secret.
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Identical twins Melina and GIllian Lloyd haven't considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes that Gillian take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut Col. "Chief" Hart, she refuses...at first. The following morning Melina receives terrible news: her sister has been brutally murdered--and Chief, though innocent, is the prime suspect. He and Melina are determined to find the killer, a megalomaniac whose horrific schemes require Gillians replacement, her identical twin--Melina.
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Identical Twins switching identities, always makes for a good read.
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A good story...typical Sandra Brown...if you like her other stuff, you'll like this one too.
robinmy avatar reviewed The Switch on + 2106 more book reviews
As a lark, identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd decide to switch identities. Gillian will pose as Melina and escort NASA astronaut Christopher "Chief" Lloyd to his media events. This turns out to be an easy assignment for Gillian.

But the next morning Melina is awakened by police with the news that Gillian was found murdered. On the walls are insults and message directed at Gillian, along with insults that link Chief to the crime. Soon Melina and Chief join forces to solve her twin's murder.

This was an interesting story with lots of twists, but most of them were easy to figure out. My rating: 4 Stars.
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Great romance and suspense book. The book is filled with love, romance and suspense. It has so many twist in the story that you will think you know the end until the last 5 pages. If you are a fan of the author -you must read this book.
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Taut thriller involving identical twins and murder. When one is killed, the trail of revelation and revenge for the other becomes twisted. Which twin was the intended target of the murder?
Satin43 avatar reviewed The Switch on + 157 more book reviews
It wouldn't be the first time that identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd switched identities, yet it's the first time as adults that they've even considered the prank. Melina, the more impetuous twin, proposes that her circumspect sister take her place as media escort to NASA astronaut and national hero Colonel Christopher "Chief" Hart. Gillian declines for a very personal reason -- she's preoccupied with whether or not the artificial insemination she underwent that day will be successful. Besides, she warns Melina, such a switch could have unexpected consequences. Identical twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd share all of their thoughts and experiences. However, each follows her own lifestyle and career path. Gillian is in real estate but wishes to start a family before it is too late. In her public relations position, Melina is assigned to escort a famous astronaut, Christopher "Chief" Heart. The next day Gillian is found, and the case is closed when the murderer is quickly tracked down and discovered to have committed suicide. But that special bond between twins tells Melina that there is more to this tragedy. With the aid of the Chief she sets out to find answers.
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Great Book!
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I enjoyed the story.
sebastiantombs avatar reviewed The Switch on + 123 more book reviews
Abdirged. 4 tapes, approx. 4.5 hrs.
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great book
CraftyTJ avatar reviewed The Switch on + 381 more book reviews
Identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd haven't switched identities since they were children. Now in their late thirties, Melina talks Gillian into switching identities once again. After hearing her biological clock ticking, Gillian decides to be artificially inseminated at an exclusive fertility treatment center, The Waters Clinic. At lunch that day, she tells Melina what she has done and Melina decides Gillian needs a night on the town. She also has the perfect evening planned for her sister. Since Melina hates Gillian's boyfriend, Jem Hennings, she decides that Gillian needs a change and talks her into taking her place as the media escort of a famous, gorgeous and very sexy Native American astronaut, "Chief" Hart. Hoping that her sister would hit if off with someone other than Hennings, little did Melina know just how well they would get along and what sinister outcome would result from this meeting.

When Gillian's mutilated body is discovered in her home the next morning, the story begins to go from a fast paced to a high-speed journey of intrigue and mystery. Melina is devastated by the death of her sister and vows to find answers. All the leads keep coming back to a high profile TV evangelist known as Brother Gabriel, who isn't as saintly as his followers seem to believe. Seems Brother Gabriel has his own ideas for creating a New World Order that involves him populating the world with his own offspring. Since the conventional methods hadn't produced the amount of children he needed for this conspiracy, he turned to modern medicine to help him. Yes, donor sperm at fertility clinics around the world had been substituted with his sperm.
sk1nsfan avatar reviewed The Switch on + 9 more book reviews
This was an awesome read. You just couldn't put the book down. A real page turner. I loved it. The plot was not easy to figure out at all. A must read.
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Another riveting novel of suspense, revenge, and illusion--where a labyrinth of twists and turns culminates in a final, stunning revelation...The Switch!
hollielazor avatar reviewed The Switch on + 83 more book reviews
Twins Melina a Gillian Lloyd have never switched places, not even as a childhood prank, but when Gillian proposes that Melina take her place to escort a famous NASA astronaut, she never imagined she wouldn't return. Great Sandra Brown book.
freeverse071681 avatar reviewed The Switch on + 609 more book reviews
It isn't the first time that identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd have switched identities. Yet it's the first time as adults that they've even considered the childhood prank. Melina, the more impetuous twin, proposes that her circumspect sister take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut and national hero Colonel Christopher "Chief" Hart.
Although it's an enticing offer, Gillian declines for a very personal reason -- she's preoccupied with whether or not the artificial insemination she underwent that day will be successful. Besides, she warns Melina, such a switch could have unexpected consequences.

Media-savvy Chief turns out to be an easy assignment for Melina -- in fact the evening with him is as much pleasure as business. But the following morning police arrive at Melina's door with the worst possible news: her beloved twin has been brutally murdered in her own bed. And on the walls, scrawled in blood, are obscenities directed at Gillian, along with insults toward Native Americans that indisputably link Chief to the crime.

Dissatisfied with the official police investigation, Chief and Melina form a grudging alliance, strike out on their own ... and find themselves uncovering more questions than answers. Mistrusting even the authorities claiming to protect them, on the run with their lives in danger, the two are soon following a crooked and bloody trail that inexplicably leads to Gillian's attempt to conceive a child... and to the threshold of an inner sanctum, where a megalomaniac hatches horrific schemes and lies in wait for Gillian's replacement, her identical twin -- Melina
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Identical twins Melina and Gillian haven't considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes that Gillian take her place as media escort to NASA astronaut Col. "Chief" Hart, she refuses ... at first. Murder mystery and romance in one!
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Never been open! Brand spanking new!
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I found this at a yard sale for the Humane Society & haven't read it.

Blurbage courtesy of Amazon.com:
Identical twins are fair game for a thriller writer, and in The Switch, queen of suspense Sandra Brown (The Alibi, Standoff, Fat Tuesday) makes the most of an intricate setup involving Gillian and Melina Lloyd, a pair of thirtysomething Dallas beauties. When Gillian hears her biological clock ticking, she puts herself in the hands of the world-famous Waters Clinic and is artificially inseminated (as described in a somewhat plodding first chapter that omits no detail of the procedure). The action picks up when Gillian switches places with her twin, a media escort, and chauffeurs sexy astronaut Chief Hart around town. It turns out to be a fatal attraction, and suspicion falls on Chief when Gillian's mutilated body is found the next day.

The dead woman's smarmy and enigmatic boyfriend, Jem Hennings, has a vested interest in focusing police efforts on Hart, but Melina has her own reasons for thinking him wrong. Jem's connection with a charismatic preacher known as Brother Gabriel is at the heart of this mildly creepy mystery, in which the plucky Melina tracks Brother Gabriel to his lair and uncovers his diabolical plot while simultaneously revealing her own dark secret. The ending is telegraphed well in advance, but that won't deter Brown's many fans from relishing the details, including some sex scenes that are spicier than most of the florid prose that usually turns up in romantic thrillers of this sort. But that may be why the author inevitably rockets to the top of the bestseller list, where The Switch is destined to land.
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Identical Twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd haven't considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes that Gillian take her place as a media escrot to NASA astronaut "Chief Hart.
Murder. Megalomania, crazyness. It's a good book!
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A little worn but much readable. Good
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Identical twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd haven't considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes that gillian take her place as a media escort to NASA astronau Col. "Chief" Hart, she refuses...at first. The following morning Melina receives terrible news: her sister has been brutally murdered-and Chief, though innocent, is the prime suspect. He and Melina are determined to find the killer, amegalomaniac whose horrific schemes require gillian's replacement, her identical twin-Melina.
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Identical twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd haven't considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes that Gillian take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut Col. "Chief" Hart,she refuses...at first. The following morning Melina receives terrible news: her sister has been brutally murdered-and Chief,though innocent,is the prime suspect. He and Melina are determined to find the killer, a megalomaniac whose horrific schemes requir Gillian's replacement,her identical twin -Melina.
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Identical twins Melina nd Gillian havent considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes that Gillian take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut Chief Hart, she refuses at first.. The following morning Melina receives terrible news: her sister has been brutally murdered and chief through innocent is the prime suspect. He and Melina are determined to find the filler.
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Identical twins Melina and Gillian LLoyd haven't considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes tha Gillian take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut Col. "Chief" Hart, she refuses at first. The following morning Melina receives terrible news: her sister has been brutally murdered and "Chief" though innocent, is the prime suspect. He and Melina are determined to find the killer, a megalomaniac, whose horrific schemes require Gillian's replacement, her identical twin Melina.
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Identical twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd haven't considered switching places since childhood. So when Melina proposes that Gillian take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut Col. "Chief" Hart, she refuses...at first. The following morning Melina receives terrible news: her sister has been brutally murdered---and Chief, though innocent, is the prime suspect. He and Melina are determined to find the killer, a megalomaniace whose horrific schemes require Gillian's replacement, her identical tiwn---Melina.
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It isn't the first time that identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd have switched identities. Melina, the more impetuous twin, proposes that her circumspect sister take her place as a media escort to NASA astronaut and national hero Colonel Christopher "Chief" Heart. Although it's an enticing offer, Gillian declines for a very personal reason. Besides, she warns Melina, such a switch could have unexpected consequences.

Media-savvy Chief turns out to be an easy assignment for Melina. But the following morning, police arrive at Melina's door with the worst possible news: her beloved twin has been murdered, and on the walls, scrawled in blood, are obscenities directed at Gillian, along with insults that indisputably link Chief to the crime.

Dissatisfied with the official police investigation, Chief and Melina form a grudging alliance. Striking out on their own, they uncover more questions than answers, and are eventually led to the threshold of an inner sanctum, where a megalomaniac lies in wait for Gillian's replacement, her identical twin -- Melina.

A story that reveals the powerful, almost mystical bond between twins -- bond that compels a woman to go to impossible lengths to avenge her sister, The Switch defies every prediction.
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