A Mother's PromiseA debut historical novel based on the true story of a young woman in 1920s Virginia fighting to reclaim the daughter she was forced to give up, a case that culminated in a landmark U. S. Supreme Court decision. Virginia, 1924. Ruth Ann Riley is 17 years old when she gives birth to a baby girl. Unwed and under educated, she's deemed "feeble minded" just like her own mother and sent to live in a state run institution where the doctors decide she must be

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