Book Description
Sister Emma, a nun, manages the Helpless Souls orphanage in the Benin city of Cotonou. When twin infant girls are abandoned at the local dumpsite, she's on hand to rescue them, as always. But the sinister circumstances surrounding the twins' abandonment and the mysterious talisman around their heads makes this case more difficult than any Sister Emma has dealt with before. As she's drawn into mystery of the twins' origins, she finds herself thinking back on her own life, and the mystery of the father she never knew. An unexpected letter from her childhood guardian brings all those unresolved feelings to the surface, and Emma is transported back in time...