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About the Book

A baby is smuggled out of Romania on the black market and is sold illegally to Diana Helms, an unsuspecting adoptive mother in Boston. When the Romanian father unexpectedly appears on the scene, posing as businessman, his Balkan charm seduces Diana. Her love for him is eventually betrayed as he conspires to abduct his child back to Romania. Diana, bitter but not defeated, follows him across Europe determined to regain her child.

About the Author

Elizabeth Shannon is the author of Up in the Park, The Diary of the Wife of the American Ambassador to Ireland, and I am of Ireland: Women of the North Speak Out.

William Rademaekers is a 40-year veteran of Time Magazine and served as Bureau Chief of Time in Budapest-Vienna, Vietnam and Paris Bureaus. Both Shannon and Rademaekers worked in Munich at Radio Free Europe.