Carolyn Nash Boeken

By age 37, Carolyn Nash had put away her lifelong dream of marrying and having children. Men were friends, never lovers. No child would ever stretch their arms up to her, joyfully crying, "Mommy!" No tears need be shed. Things were the way they were. So there was no risk in Carolyn's attending a meeting about adoption with a friend who was contemplating it. Certainly, fuilling out an application to adopt wasn't a commitment. Obtaining a foster care license was simply a formality. Walking out of the children's shelter with three-year-old Abel's tiny hand swallowed in hers? Oh yeah. That changed everthing. So began an 18-year journey they could only have taken together, one that led them through Abel's disclosures of horrific abuse, Carolyn's recovered memories of her own abuse, violence, destruction, police interventions, hospitalizations, suicide attempts, and, ultimately, a happiness neither one of them could have anticipated was possible -- Publisher's description.

Rachel Elliot is a smart and cynical investigative journalist with a passion for exposing the truth behind every story. But when her editor asks her to look into a controversial real-estate deal involving an elusive tech billionaire and a supposedly haunted house, she unexpectedly uncovers dark secrets about her own past. With a beautiful pharmaceutical heiress, a relentless colleague, and one of the world's most famous Internet innovators all staking a claim on her past and her future, it's up to Rachel to figure out what binds this group together before fate overtakes them.