PHOENIX — If you're a millennial, chances are you've seen the iconic Lindsay Lohan film "The Parent Trap" a few dozen times. Lohan plays twins who meet at summer camp and discover not only that they are twins, but that if they swap places, their estranged parents will have to meet up to swap them back: cue the romantic reunion.

Except these mischievous gals didn't know their dad had a new girlfriend. Enter: Meredith Blake.

Blake is often described as icy, a gold digger, cold, evil step-mother-like—and true, she does try to ship the girls off to Switzerland—but author Maggie Gates wondered if maybe the world got Meredith Blake all wrong.

What if she wasn't the villain after all?

Gates says Blake was the inspiration for the main female character in her book , which is being released thro

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