Social worker Sarah DeGraaf reunites adoptees with their biological parents -- a bittersweet job for a Korean-American adoptee unlikely to ever have the same experience. When she discovers that her latest client's mother, a furniture industry heiress, died under mysterious circumstances that were never fully investigated, her personal commitment takes her farther than agency regulations allow. As long-concealed family secrets u nravel, more is at stake than the job Sarah loves and the possibility of a fortune for her client. Someone will kill to protect what they've gained. The first in the "Wooden Shoe Mysteries."