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 while doing a very intense and challenging job that deals with great danger and a Baby Ring where murder and kidnapping is a common end to the Mother and 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 are.  That is so very sad for the adoptee, because that bit of missing information is completely integral to them 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 may in some way understand those many ramifications that the Adoptee and “First Mother” go through.  Paris and Soll, both as co-authors, 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 real.  I know how much this book means to both of you and how much you agonized over the writing of 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.  -                 

Claudia VanLydegraf, Author of Notes from Nobody

      I was ensnared from the first page of Evil Exchange, and found it difficult to stop reading when there were other things like taxes and resumes that took me away.

  The way you expressed Todd’s feelings of exhilaration and his acknowledging of the physical dangers involved as he worked the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers touched me. And my heart hurt when you told his story of the feeling of outsider-ness. I am glad he found Claire and the support group, and Diana.

    I was intrigued by the story, and also by the skill with which you both wove it. I could visualize the characters as you so aptly described them and let them develop themselves by their actions and dialogue.  Your language was real, and yes, God bless you, it was a celebration of the word carefully selected for impact and understandable communication.

    I  love the way you integrated your locales. Eleuthra, 74th Street, and Congers. I don’t know where the others rose from, your own experience, research, or your co-author.

    You owned the story so thoroughly; I’m not sure what contributions were made by whom. The story was seamless, and there was no way to know there was more than one author except for the banner and the attributes.

    It is great fiction, and a mystery John D. MacDonald would have been proud to have been a remote contributor.

    I want EVERYONE to read it! So, I guess that means that IT”S A MUST-READ! I want them to ask for it, and BUY it!  I want a recognized personality to plug it on all the talk shows. I love the term first mother; it denotes the appropriate heart bond without taking away from the mother who adopted and cherished her child. Beside it, biological mother is so redolent of laboratories.

    Lauds to you, my dear one. You’ve created a great mystery and subtly, without any pedantic overbearing-ness

    Those who have their own stories will love you. Those who never came close to knowing will learn, and wait for your next mystery!.