"Newly engaged Avery Stafford leaves her j ob as a federal prosecutor in Washington\, D.C.\, to go back home to South Carolina\, where she is being groomed to succeed her ailing father\, a U. S. senator. At a meet-and-greet at a nursing home\, she encounters May\, a woman who seems to have some link with Avery&rsquo\;s Grandma Judy\, now suffering from dementia. The reader learns early on that May was once Rill Foss\, one of five siblings snatched from their shanty home on the Missis sippi and taken to the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children&rsquo\;s H ome Society. The society seems too Dickensian to be true\, except that it was\, and its black-market adoption practices caused a stir in the mid-twe ntieth century. Rill&rsquo\;s harrowing account of what befell the Foss ch ildren and Avery&rsquo\;s piecing together (with the help of a possible ne w love interest) of how Rill and Grandma Judy&rsquo\;s stories converge ar e skillfully blended. Wingate (The Sea Keeper&rsquo\;s Daughters\, 2015) w rites with flair\, and her distinctly drawn characters and adept use of th e adoption scandal will keep readers turning the pages."
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