A Desperate Mother Searches for Her Child
Step into True Colors — a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime
Widowed in Memphis during 1932, Cecile Dowd is struggling to provide for her three-year-old daughter. Unwittingly trusting a neighbor puts little Millie Mae into the clutches of Georgia Tann, corrupt Memphis Tennessee Children’s Home Society director suspected of the disappearance of hundreds of children. With the help of a sympathetic lawyer, the search for Millie uncovers a deep level of corruption that threatens their very lives.
How far will a mother go to find out what happened to her child?
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Summary
"She'll never forget you. Don't forget about her."
Leaving her daughter with a neighbor in order to hunt for a better paying job, single mother Cecile Dowd returns home to an empty house; to her horror, the person she had entrusted with her child had given Millie away to none other than Georgia Tann. Desperate to prove to the authorities that her child had been unlawfully snatched, Cecile commandeers reluctant assistance from Tann's young attorney, whose own doubts about Tann's tactics would serve to ignite a firestorm around them both.
Where is Millie Dowd?
Step back into one of the most heinous miscarriages of justice, as Tolsma crafts a fictitious representation of Georgia Tann's reign over Memphis, Tennessee in the 1930's; hiding a corrupt enterprise behind the curtains of the Memphis Tennessee Children's Home Society, while dozens of children were kidnapped and sold under the guise of philanthropy.