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 lives come very close to touching each other, but it's not until she and her husband decide to peruse the internet on a whim about their backgrounds that Julie and Diana connect. They share their life stories and realize how much their lives' paths have in common.

Not Yours to Keep gives the reader a thoughtful message about the parts of us that are from nurture and what comes from nature. It touches the heart and mind with its inspiring depiction of the ability to overcome and achieve success after life's heartbreaks, challenges, and struggles have their way with you.