The Nursery

Résumé du livre

Caroline Denecke, long childless, is overjoyed to take home at long last an adopted son, Zach. But her bliss is short-lived; she awakens one night a few days later to find Zach still and cold in his crib. The child is dead. SIDS seems to be the only explanation, until an autopsy reveals that the baby died of asphyxiation. Caroline soon finds herself cast as the villain, suspected as either the murderer of her own son or the victim of hysterical fantasies. But Caroline is convinced that the dead infant is not her own. Her insistence that Zach has been taken away is dismissed by everyone around her - the police and even her husband think she is suffering from delusions brought on by the child's death. Refusing to be deterred, she begins to search for the missing Zach on her own. Then Caroline meets a reporter investigating the practices of a sinister adoption mill. The bereaved mother finds an ally. Together, the two women battle daunting odds to rescue baby Zach.