"The Cruelest Con" "is a unique book in many ways: it is deeply personal, emotionally powerful, and contains important lessons for everyone in the adoption community. We all should read it and learn from it - so that adoption can truly be the rewarding, ethical process that it should be."--Adam Pertman, author of "Adoption Nation" and executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute.

For nearly three years, author Kelly Kiser-Mostrom endured the nightmare of an adoption scam. Through her heart-wrenching personal journey in "The Cruelest Con," Kiser-Mostrom focuses on the...