Mortal Wounds

When a young woman falls from the Hotel Finlen, Mesa Dawson,
Mining City Messenger editor, arrives on the scene to cover an apparent suicide. She races to refute that assumption, and discovers a link between a good-looking stranger and the black book detailing the activities of Butte’s infamous seller of ‘Elsie’s Babies.’ The book contains names of infants, their birth parents, and who bought the babies. Adult adoptees, hoping for leads about their origins, have searched for it for years while others have kept it hidden. Now the book’s come to light, all kinds of people are ready to do anything, including kill, to discover its potentially unsettling contents.