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"With her promotion to news anchor and the plum assignment of covering a sensational murder trial for her network, Delaney Wright should be celebrating, but her urgent need to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. On trial is Betsy Grant, who claims she loved her husband and would never have put him out of the misery of early onset Alzheimer's disease. As the trial unfolds and the evidence against Betsy piles up, Delaney's pursuit of the...

The painful and courageous journey toward adoption made by several of her clients forces Maya Lange, founder of The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families, to confront the lost daughter of her past.

"A senior photography project gives Maude the perfect opportunity to search for more information about her birth mother--but she may not like what she finds"--

As Bernadine Brown and Malachi July prepare for their upcoming wedding, Amari's birth mother comes to Henry Adams, Kansas, with the hope of spending Christmas with her son.

Twelve-year-old orphan Logan and his superhero friends embark on an adventure to stop the evil supervillain Necros and find the true identity of Logan's birth mom.

Jane Worthing's claim to fame is that she was one of the first viral internet sensations...discovered as a one-year-old in an oversized Gucci bag by her adopted father in a Poughkeepsie train station. Now in her senior year of high school, Janey is questioning whether she wants to look for her bio family due to a loving, but deeply misguided push from her best friend Algie, while also navigating an all-consuming crush on his cousin, the beautiful,...

"Abigail's Amish life has always followed a certain path ... until an Englisch woman disrupts all she's known to be true. Growing up Amish, Abigail Bontrager often felt like a square peg in a round hole. Her pie crusts always turned out tough. Her stitches always ran crooked. She was clumsy. Not ideal for an aspiring Amish wife and mother, but her faith and love of her family, which are so much more important, are solid. Plus, her relationship with...

Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family--until he gets a chilling text message from an unknown number: "How did ur mother die?" The answer is murder, and urged on by curiosity and the mysterious texter, Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades. Hunt's birth father, twice tried but never convicted of the murder, is in...

Normally, Wes Grayson would be attracted to the striking woman with the camera. But this woman has clearly been stalking Amy, his adopted daughter and the center of his life. And a threat to Amy is a threat to Wes. Laney Fields has no intention of threatening anyone- Just a longing to see the child she brought into the world six years ago and then was forced to release for adoption. But when she learns that Amy's adoptive mother has died, Laney becomes...

"In a celebration of open adoption, both a baby's birth mother and his adoptive parents share the same universal wishes for the child"--