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They were four women with only one thing in common: each gave
her baby up to a stranger...
They met in a home for unwed mothers, where all they had to
hold on to was each other. Now, twenty-five years later, it's
time to go back and face the past. The date is set for a
reunion with the children they have never known. But who will
find the courage to attend?
JESS: She seemed to have it all 末 a successful husband,
beautiful children, and a lavish country home. But something
was missing, had always been missing. And now that her teenage
daughter is pregnant, all Jess can think of is the child she
gave away...
SUSAN: For this divorced college professor, the psychedelic
sixties had been bright with purpose, love 末 and David. But
when she gave up his child, nothing was ever the same. Now
Susan stands to lose a second child 末 the rebellious teenage
son so like herself at the same age...
P.J.: Even as a teen, nothing could stop this gorgeous redhead
from getting ahead 末 not even an unwanted pregnancy. But as a
high-powered art director on her way to an executive office,
she may finally have found the one thing that can make her
slow down her whirlwind life: the chance that it might end...
GINNY: A streetwise yet vulnerable survivor, she's an unlikely
Hollywood wife. But men, money, and four marriages can't erase
the horrors of her past...or satisfy her need for love.
When I decided to focus on my writing career, I was torn
between two concepts for my first novel: should it be based on
a short story I'd written for a college writing class 末 a
story about girls who gave up their babies for adoption? Or
should I take the route of writing mysteries, such as the ones
I'd outlined that were to take place on Cape Cod?
I was standing at my desk, literally looking at pages of the
two ideas, when a call came from a friend.
"You won't believe who just called me," she said,
breathlessly.
She was right: I wouldn't believe it. The call came from her
daughter; the baby she'd given up for adoption twenty-five
years earlier.
I hung up the phone and wrote Sins of Innocence.
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