The Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin. The Counterfeit son is about a bow named Cameron Miller. Cameron Miller's dad is a serial killer. Yeah, a serial killer. Then when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he runs to the police station. He realizes that he had one chance for the one thing he wants, a normal life. So, he takes the identity of Neil Lacey a boy Hank Miller, Cameron's dad, had abducted six years ago.
At the police station Cameron was terrified and scared. He didn't know what to do or say, but he couldn't undo what he had done. So he went along with it, but detective Simmons, a man who was asking questions about what happened didn't believe any of it.
Next thing Cameron, or Neil Lacey, woke up at a hospital staring up at two people. It turned out to be Neil's parents so he went along and said "Mom? Dad?"and they just believed it was him. They expected amnesia so they just believed him, because Neil's parents haven't seen their son for six years so they just had to believe it.
They take him home a few days later. They were talking about Diana and Stevie, Neil's siblings. Stevie is eight and Diana is in eighth grade. Diana knew that he wasn't her brother, she just knew. So she just whatever she could to try to make Cameron confess.
Few days later Cameron bumps into a guy while he's out on a walk and realizes that the man was Cougar. Cougar was a man who had been friends with Cameron's dad. Cougar had Cameron's dad to blame for him going to jail. So he wanted to take it out on Cameron. Cougar then beats Cameron up asking for a key to his house to take some things himself, and if Cameron doesn't give it to him he'll abduct Stevie.
The next day Cameron woke up and Stevie was gone he looked out the window to see one of the family's sailboats was moving he calls Diana and says that he's not Neil Lacey he's Cameron Miller and told her to call detective Simmons right away. Cameron runs to the sailboat and steals Stevie back, of course they fought around a lot. Cougar used a belt which brought back to mind of Camerons dad beating him up with the belt. So Cameron uses a fire extinguisher and with one blow to the leg he runs away with Stevie leaving Cougar alone in pain. Once they get back he drops Stevie safely to their house.
Cameron talks to detective Simmons saying that he's not Neil Lacey. Then detective Simmons says that they found the dug up bodies his dad had buried and found a dead body that was Cameron Miller. So Cameron was thinking he really was Neil Lacey. Then that was the end of the story.
I think the main theme of the book is that you can never live someone else's life. I have experienced something not anything like it but something a little close to what it is. A girl in third grade was trying to copy me she liked the same things I did copied the books I read, and event the way I sat, but everybody knew we were two completely different people. So i think the main theme in the book is that you can never live another person's life.
This book appealed to me, because I love crime, investigation, and mystery stories with an ending that leaves me questioning. I would definitely recommend this book to anybody who loves books. This is a great book, because in the end it made me think and question a lot and that's what I really like about books. I would definitely recommend this to people.
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