When Chris Breck comes to Mercy Hospital in search of answers regarding his family tree, his mother’s dear friend Joy Atkins is there to help! Chris desperately needs a kidney transplant, but the cousin who volunteered to donate one turns out to be genetically unrelated to him. In fact, even though DNA evidence shows that Chris is his father’s biological child, he is not related to his father’s parents. Chris’s grandmother insists she gave birth to Chris’s father at Mercy Hospital. Did she go home with the wrong baby? Did someone try to cover up the switch?

As Joy and her friends try to help Chris solve this latest mystery, they soon learn that Chris’s father may not be the only child born at the hospital whose birth record was falsified. Is Joy willing to risk her job to find the truth, no matter who’s involved?

Also published in the Sweet Carolina Mysteries series.

Joy Atkins has met many people while running Mercy Hospital’s gift shop, but she has never come across anyone quite like boy genius Connor Sherman. Connor is a fifteen-year-old high school senior set on starting college as soon as possible. All his life he’s been poked, prodded, examined, and filmed by doctors and documentarians, and he’s now eager to leave home and gain some independence, despite his mother’s wariness. But an accident lands him in the hospital, and his discharge is delayed again and again when a series of mishaps endanger his health. Can Joy discover who is out to harm Connor and why?

Meanwhile, Joy and her friends are working hard to plan a surprise birthday for their dear friend, Shirley Bashore. But for every task completed, another takes its place. Can they get everything done in time and keep their surprise a secret?

Also published in the Sweet Carolina Mysteries series.