<p><b>"An important and vital story"¿ Donna Everhart, <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author of <i>The Saints of Swallow Hill</i></b><br></p><p><b>A searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and <i>The Girls with No Names</i> set in the Baby Scoop Era of 1960s and the women of a certain condition swept up in a dark history.</b><br>It¿s the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all ¿ an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every time she looks through her father¿s telescope, she dreams of the stars. It¿s ambitious, but Lorraine has always been exceptional. <br>But when this darling girl-next-door gets pregnant, she¿s forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded. <br>To hide their daughter¿s secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward girls. But this is no safe haven ¿ it¿s a house with dark secrets and suffocating rules. And as Lorraine begins to piece together a new vision for