This story is a trilogy that brings the unknown past and the present together to form the future.

Which is stronger? One’s biology or the way one is raised? Could it be a combination of both? 

Journey through this novel as it parallels the lives of three women, bound by love, heredity, and environment.

In the summer of 1957, two women became mothers.

Maeve travels from Ireland to America with ambitious career goals and find herself an-unmarried immigrant, alone and with child. 

Celia, a religious Italian woman, dignified and gentle, cloaked with the delicate love of a mother, brings to life a family with her husband and adopted children on the shores of New England.

A life is created and shared. She is called Jane Marie and then Nicole. A powerful and tenacious woman emerges, grounded in the DNA of a robust, high-spirited Irish woman, then nurtured and refined by a religious Italian woman.

Bold and courageous, Nicole is now determined to chart her own course of life… To discover who she is, By understanding her past, she creates her future.

A collection of thousands of moments becomes her search.