The Sixteenth Year: An Open Adoption Memoir

It was the year that changed everything.

When a pregnancy test turns up positive, Leah has some tough decisions to make. At just sixteen, what will she do?

Wrestling with her options for months, she then discovers open adoption: welcoming her daughter into the world while maintaining a connection with her daughter and the adoptive family after the placement. As her heart softens to the sacrifice she knows she needs to make in hopes of bettering her baby's life, her life begins to shift, too. ...