Not Yours To Keep: A Story About Adoption and the Strength and Resilience of Women

Not Yours to Keep is a raw and emotional story that speaks to the resilience of women. It is a compelling tale about a young mother in the 1950s who fought against all odds to give birth to her child that was conceived by a brutal rape, only to give her up for adoption at birth.

Unknowingly, the baby girl, Julie, is adopted and raised by parents in a loving family only a few miles away from where her birth mother lives. There are many times throughout Julie's fifty-one years that their live...