The Secret Adoption

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>This whimsical and evocative story</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>praised by <em>Publishers Weekly</em> and <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>follows an illegitimate child placed with a powerful and eccentric Hollywood family after a scandalous affair.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>When a notorious lawyer at the behest of a famed composer meticulously conceals the child's origins his adoptive mother spares no effort to bury the truth. Pulling strings and enlisting influential allies including a television icon she constructs an elaborate facade to ensure he never uncovers his past. Yet as he ages cracks appear leaving him haunted by an unshakable sense that something crucial is being hidden.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Set against Tinseltown's deceptive allure and shadowy intrigues this memoir delves into the profound depths of childhood trauma family secrets and the universal search for belonging. Through a poignant journey of self-discovery and healing the author reflects on the fragile bonds that define family weaving an intensely personal narrative that lingers in the heart and mind long after the final page.</span></p>