Karen Kingsbury delivers a powerful new novel about two parents' love for their child and the surprising lengths they will go to keep their family together when a judge rules that their adopted son must be returned to his biological father.

"Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family." — Washington Post

From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.

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"Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered--savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his three adopted children: Alan, an archaeologist; Roger, an engineer; and Caroline, a journalist. But his heirs soon find that his last testament contains a strange proviso--that his estate shall go to the heir who solves his murder. To secure their future, each Linwood heir must dig into the past....

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours explores the connection between our hearts and our pasts in this emotional novel in the Tending Roses series.... Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was one of the lucky ones. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. By twenty, her future has expanded in exciting new directions--a...

Lenny follows Adam for a school project and learns about his family life as an adopted child.

Wounded in an explosion at a raunchy saloon, Steven Fairfax heals himself in the home of Emma Chalmers--a prim and proper woman despite her unconventional upbringing in a bordello--and soon the two fall in love, but Steven's outlaw status could ruin their love.

Dispelling the myth that you are alone, Open-Eyed Adoption takes a look at the importance of self-kindness and shows the way to get the support you need. Revealing interviews--from doctors, therapists, adoptive parents, adult adoptees, and birth moms--shed light on the origins of trauma, how different DNA really does have an affect, and the affect of hidden emotions like "Will you leave, too? Is there something I could finally push you away? If my...

"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...