The law took her son.
She intends to take him back.
In 1905 New York City, a court order strips Mae Turner of her son—without warning, without goodbye.
As she searches for him, what she finds is bigger than one missing boy. Simon isn’t lost. He’s been placed.
Inside the Children’s Court, decisions are made before hearings begin.
Files vanish.
The same names surface again and again.
And the deeper Mae digs, the more the system begins to close ranks against her—until finding her son may cost her everything.
The system isn’t failing.
It’s working exactly as intended.
And it does not return what it takes.
To get her son back, Mae must defy the very law she once trusted—and risk becoming the next name erased… another mother no one remembers.
Historical suspense inspired by the orphan trains, where child removal, sealed records, and unchecked authority collide with a mother’s fight for justice—perfect for readers of Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code and Pam Jenoff’s The Lost Girls of Paris.
