Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor-Jones has a perfect life until she finds out that she is adopted and her birth parents are notorious serial killers serving life sentences. As the news unfolds, it brings unwanted publicity and Olivia decides she must learn the whole truth about her birth parents and takes a trip to the small town of Cainsville, Illinois where it all began.
Although at odds with her parents over their decision to adopt a baby, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself drawn to the birth mother, who is having second thoughts about giving up her child.
Offers advice for biological and adoptive parents on practicing open adoption--where the two sets of parents have access to one another's information as well as decide on the option of biological parental visits and interaction. Explores what open adoption can do for a child's psyche, both beneficially and harmfully.
Wally, who was adopted from a Russian orphanage and raised in a wealthy New York City family, finds herself living on the streets at fifteen, and, at sixteen, she sets out to locate her birth mother before her Russian gangster father can.
