Counterfeit Son Sparknotes

The young adult fiction novel, “Counterfeit Son” by Elaine M. Alphin, tells a story about a young boy, believed to be the son of a serial killer, attempting to fit into a family of a victim. Cameron Miller was the son of a serial killer who experienced abuse, and witnessed the death of twenty two boys. Cameron’s dream was to go sailing and he would think about how it would feel to go sailing as he was abused by his father. Hank Miller, the serial killer and Cameron’s father, was shot dead by the police which left Cameron alone. Cameron decides to take the identity of one of the boys, Neil Lacey, in the clippings that Hank Miller kept. He chooses Neil Lacey because of his dream of sailing seeing that the Lacey’s owned sailboats. He finds himself somehow able …show more content…
He encounters the trauma that Hank Miller scarred him with as he looks for punishment when he had done something wrong. The problems arrive when a detective sees through the facade and accuses Cameron to be the son of Hank Miller. Neil’s sister Diana also doubts Cameron of acting like he was a part of the family. Bill “Cougar” Scott, an associate of Hank Miller, is freed from prison, and attempts to blackmail Cameron. Scott tells Cameron to cough up money or he would kidnap Neil’s brother, Stevie. Cameron struggles to keep up because he doesn’t know how to convince Diana and the detective that he was Neil, and he also wasn’t able to give Scott what he wanted. He wasn’t able to ask for help which led the events to hit the climax. He was warning Stevie not to go with any strangers who invite him or any situation like that to protect him from Scott. The next day, Cameron finds that Stevie is missing, finally seeing that Bill Scott had taken him and was on the Lacey’s Sailboat. Diana calls for help as Cameron runs to Stevie’s rescue. He takes Neil’s sailboat and rams the sailboat that Bill Scott and Stevie were