Following the death of her mother, Justine Cowan discovered an envelope which contained details about her mother’s childhood at the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children, also known as the Foundling Hospital, in Great Britain—a childhood that Cowan knew nothing about during her mother’s life. In her debut, Atlanta-based attorney Cowan investigates her mother’s difficult childhood alongside her own early years, uncovering the depths of a family secret.