Mary B. Addison killed a baby.
That is the story the media told, the story the jury believed, the story the world branded on her skin. She was nine years old when the headlines screamed her guilt, and she has carried it ever since. Allegedly.
Now seventeen, Mary lives in a group home where survival means silence. But silence will not protect her anymore. She is pregnant, and the state is ready to take her child unless she can prove she is more than the monster everyone decided she was.
The truth lies tangled between Mary, her churchgoing mother, and the lies that built a case too shocking to ignore. To save her baby, Mary must finally answer the question no one stopped asking: did she do it?
