Review: Miranda Steele’s  escape from abuse
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2013
‘Someone Else’s Daughter’ is book 1 of a well written series on the life of Miranda Steele by author Linsey Lanier. Miranda was abused by her divorced mother who punished her by locking her in a dark cupboard. She marries a policeman and accepts his abuse as the norm. When he gives her 3 week old baby daughter away for adoption without her authorisation she confronts him. He throws her out into the snow and she leaves, determined to find her daughter and never to allow anyone to use and abuse her again. The story continues 13 years later. She has taken a course in martial art, can stand up for herself working with a road  construction crew, and is protective towards her fellow workers who are abused. She  never  gives up searching for her daughter, who would be 13 years old now. She gets into all sorts of scrapes  and is head hunted by Wade Parker to be trained as a PI.Suffice it to say that I read the  next three books:- ‘Delicious Torment’, ‘Forever Mine’ and ‘The Fire Dancer’ in sequence and liked all of them.