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Jenna Clark has been living in a small town of Mountain Springs, North Carolina. However she has a DarkSecret that she is actually Genevieve Brady who is on the run from her BastardBoyfriend Logan Cutter. Everything goes well until she is attacked in her work place by an assailant who knows her real name, or so she thinks.

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Jenna Clark has been living in a small town of Mountain Springs, North Carolina. However she has a DarkSecret that she is actually Genevieve Brady who is on the run from her BastardBoyfriend abusive boyfriend Logan Cutter. Everything goes well until she is attacked in her work place by an assailant who knows her real name, or so she thinks.



* BastardBoyfriend: Played with in that when we start the story this phase is long since over; but this trope was how Jenna saw Logan Cutter during their relationship.

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After being saved by local policemen Wyatt Stephens, things take a suspenseful turn when Jenna realizes her attackers aren't after her, but instead her twin sister Amy Brady. The problem being that Jenna has been under the belief Amy has been dead for several years.


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After being saved by local policemen Wyatt Stephens, things take a suspenseful turn when Jenna realizes her attackers aren't after her, but instead rather her twin sister sister, Amy Brady. The problem being is that Jenna has been under the belief Amy has been dead for several years.

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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Slightly averted. The primary thing to distinguish Jenna and Amy is their natural hair colors and a slight difference in the face. Unless up close and knowing both it is well established most people who saw Jenna thought she was Amy with dyed hair.
* BastardBoyfriend: Played with in that when we start the story this phase was well over with but this trope was how Jenna saw Logan Cutter during their relationship.

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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Slightly averted. The primary thing to distinguish Jenna and Amy is their natural hair colors and a slight difference in the face. faces. Unless someone is up close and knowing both knows them both, it's easy to mistake one for the other; it is well established that most people who saw Jenna thought she was Amy with dyed hair.
* BastardBoyfriend: Played with in that when we start the story this phase was well over with is long since over; but this trope was how Jenna saw Logan Cutter during their relationship.



* DarkSecret: Jenna carries one that she had a new identity created to escape the wrath of her physically abusive, human trafficking bastard ex boyfriend. While when other characters learn of it they are sympathetic, Jenna herself regards it still as a dark secret until she starts to open up more.

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* DarkSecret: Jenna carries one that she had a new identity created to escape the wrath of her physically abusive, human trafficking bastard ex boyfriend.ex-boyfriend. While when other characters learn of it they are sympathetic, Jenna herself regards it still as a dark secret until she starts to open up more.



* EmbarrassingFirstName: Jenna and Amy were both not pleased by their mother's choices for birth=names, Genevieve and Amaryllis.
* LeftHanging: This book leaves the plot of what exactly happened to Amy Brady hanging. However author Jodie Bailey has revealed a sequel will be published staring Amy herself.

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* EmbarrassingFirstName: Jenna and Amy were both not pleased by displeased with their mother's choices for birth=names, birth names, Genevieve and Amaryllis.
* LeftHanging: This book leaves the plot of what exactly happened to Amy Brady hanging. However However, author Jodie Bailey has revealed a sequel will be published staring starring Amy herself.



* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: At first Jenna believes her sister Amy died in a car crash. She later has it revealed that no this was actually an intentional murder. Then once again she learns no the whole thing was a set up to put her in witness protection. So they staged a set up to look like a murder then restaged it to look like an accident.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Jenna's abusive ex boyfriend had a name like Logan Cutter. His business partner however got a completly mundane sounding name by comparison.

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: At first Jenna believes her sister Amy died in a car crash. She later has it revealed that no this was actually an intentional murder. Then once again she learns no the whole thing was a set up to put her in witness protection. So they staged a set up to look like a murder then restaged it to look like an accident.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Jenna's abusive ex boyfriend had a name like Logan Cutter. His business partner however partner, however, got a completly mundane sounding completely mundane-sounding name by comparison.



* SerialKiller: There is one in this book but only as a backstory. Erin was targeted by one. This one was the wife of a solider who died overseas during the war. The wife blamed the unit for her husband's death and started a serial killing spree of the wives of members of the unit. She killed Amber Ransom, wife of Rich Ransom. Then targeted Erin, fiance of Jason who was also a member of the unit and failed. Whether she targeted and killed others is unstated.
* TwinSwitch: Mixed with a FakeTwinGambit. Jenna pulls this off at the safe house by pretending she is Amy to try and save Wyatt's life much to his chagrin. Mind you the whole plot started by having people mistaken Jenna for her twin but this was the first time in the plot Jenna willingly played along. At the time she also wasn't sure if Amy was even still alive herself given that she went AWOL and was LeftHanging.

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* SerialKiller: There is one in this book but only as a backstory. Erin was targeted by one. This one was the wife of a solider soldier who died overseas during the war. The wife blamed the unit for her husband's death and started a serial killing spree of the wives of members of the unit. She killed Amber Ransom, wife of Rich Ransom. Then targeted Erin, fiance fiancée of Jason Jason, who was also a member of the unit and failed. Whether she targeted and killed others is unstated.
* TwinSwitch: Mixed with a FakeTwinGambit. Jenna pulls this off at the safe house by pretending she is Amy to try and save Wyatt's life much to his chagrin. Mind you the whole plot started by having people mistaken Jenna for her twin but this was the first time in the plot Jenna willingly played along. At the time she also wasn't sure if Amy was even still alive herself given that she went AWOL and was LeftHanging.LeftHanging.
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* DeadAllAlong: At first within the first several chapters Jenna thinks her ex-boyfriend Logan Cutter is responsible for the attacks on her life. However she learns he has been dead since before the book's plot began.



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** At first within the first several chapters Jenna thinks her ex-boyfriend Logan Cutter is responsible for the attacks on her life. However she learns he has been dead since before the book's plot began.
** Averted with Amy Brady who is assumed to be this at the first chapter but turns out to be alive.



* SerialKiller: There is one in this book but only as a backstory. Erin was targeted by one. This one was the wife of a solider who died overseas during the war. The wife blamed the unit for her husband's death and started a serial killing spree of the wives of members of the unit. She killed Amber Ransom, wife of Rich Ransom. Then targeted Erin, finance of Jason who was also a member of the unit and failed. Whether she targeted and killed others is unstated.

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* SerialKiller: There is one in this book but only as a backstory. Erin was targeted by one. This one was the wife of a solider who died overseas during the war. The wife blamed the unit for her husband's death and started a serial killing spree of the wives of members of the unit. She killed Amber Ransom, wife of Rich Ransom. Then targeted Erin, finance fiance of Jason who was also a member of the unit and failed. Whether she targeted and killed others is unstated.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Wyatt reveals he felt this for Jenna the first time he saw her. But he takes a while to accept it.

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* FakeTwinGambit: Jenna pulls this off at the safe house to try and save Wyatt's life much to his chagrin. Mind you the whole plot started by having people mistaken Jenna for her twin but this was the first time in the plot Jenna willingly played along.



* SerialKiller: There is one in this book but only as a backstory. Erin was targeted by one. This one was the wife of a solider who died overseas during the war. The wife blamed the unit for her husband's death and started a serial killing spree of the wives of members of the unit. She killed Amber Ransom, wife of Rich Ransom. Then targeted Erin, finance of Jason who was also a member of the unit and failed. Whether she targeted and killed others is unstated.

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* SerialKiller: There is one in this book but only as a backstory. Erin was targeted by one. This one was the wife of a solider who died overseas during the war. The wife blamed the unit for her husband's death and started a serial killing spree of the wives of members of the unit. She killed Amber Ransom, wife of Rich Ransom. Then targeted Erin, finance of Jason who was also a member of the unit and failed. Whether she targeted and killed others is unstated.unstated.
* TwinSwitch: Mixed with a FakeTwinGambit. Jenna pulls this off at the safe house by pretending she is Amy to try and save Wyatt's life much to his chagrin. Mind you the whole plot started by having people mistaken Jenna for her twin but this was the first time in the plot Jenna willingly played along. At the time she also wasn't sure if Amy was even still alive herself given that she went AWOL and was LeftHanging.
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Mistaken Twin is a 2018 book written by Jodie Bailey. Released as part of the long running Love Inspired Suspense line.

Jenna Clark has been living in a small town of Mountain Springs, North Carolina. However she has a DarkSecret that she is actually Genevieve Brady who is on the run from her BastardBoyfriend Logan Cutter. Everything goes well until she is attacked in her work place by an assailant who knows her real name, or so she thinks.

After being saved by local policemen Wyatt Stephens, things take a suspenseful turn when Jenna realizes her attackers aren't after her, but instead her twin sister Amy Brady. The problem being that Jenna has been under the belief Amy has been dead for several years.

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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Slightly averted. The primary thing to distinguish Jenna and Amy is their natural hair colors and a slight difference in the face. Unless up close and knowing both it is well established most people who saw Jenna thought she was Amy with dyed hair.
* BastardBoyfriend: Played with in that when we start the story this phase was well over with but this trope was how Jenna saw Logan Cutter during their relationship.
* ChekhovsSkill: Erin (Wyatt's cousin) is offhandedly said to work as a volunteer firefighter in her spare time. When Jenna's studio is set ablaze, Erin is one of the firefighters to come to her rescue.
* DarkSecret: Jenna carries one that she had a new identity created to escape the wrath of her physically abusive, human trafficking bastard ex boyfriend. While when other characters learn of it they are sympathetic, Jenna herself regards it still as a dark secret until she starts to open up more.
* DeadAllAlong: At first within the first several chapters Jenna thinks her ex-boyfriend Logan Cutter is responsible for the attacks on her life. However she learns he has been dead since before the book's plot began.
* DomesticAbuse: Jenna was the victim of this by Logan Cutter.
* DrivenToSuicide: This is what happens to Jenna's mother. In this case the thing that drove her was that life wasn't actually a fairy-tale and after many failures of ReallyGetsAround she gave up.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Jenna and Amy were both not pleased by their mother's choices for birth=names, Genevieve and Amaryllis.
* FakeTwinGambit: Jenna pulls this off at the safe house to try and save Wyatt's life much to his chagrin. Mind you the whole plot started by having people mistaken Jenna for her twin but this was the first time in the plot Jenna willingly played along.
* LeftHanging: This book leaves the plot of what exactly happened to Amy Brady hanging. However author Jodie Bailey has revealed a sequel will be published staring Amy herself.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: At first Jenna believes her sister Amy died in a car crash. She later has it revealed that no this was actually an intentional murder. Then once again she learns no the whole thing was a set up to put her in witness protection. So they staged a set up to look like a murder then restaged it to look like an accident.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Jenna's abusive ex boyfriend had a name like Logan Cutter. His business partner however got a completly mundane sounding name by comparison.
* ReallyGetsAround: Jenna and Amy's mother went through many men in hopes of finding a Prince Charming and found none.
* SerialKiller: There is one in this book but only as a backstory. Erin was targeted by one. This one was the wife of a solider who died overseas during the war. The wife blamed the unit for her husband's death and started a serial killing spree of the wives of members of the unit. She killed Amber Ransom, wife of Rich Ransom. Then targeted Erin, finance of Jason who was also a member of the unit and failed. Whether she targeted and killed others is unstated.

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