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Stolen By Order: A Mother's Fight Against a Corrupt Court System
Paperback
Series: Stolen by Order, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781972775004
Publisher: SMP Publishing
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 364
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Her son vanished into the 1905 orphan train system overnight. Someone made sure her husband couldn't stop it. Widow Mae Turner will break New York's corrupt Children's Court-or be swallowed by it.
How does a widowed law clerk with no legal standing outrun a machine built to make children disappear?
She finds the gap in the paperwork.
She drafts the motion from memory.
She boards the train west.
But Foster finds her at her husband's grave. And what he offers her is worse than a threat.
In this Gilded Age legal thriller, the system isn't broken-it's working exactly as designed. Mae Turner is about to find out what it costs to fight it from the inside.
Stolen by Order-Book One of the Mae Turner Series
Readers of orphan train historical fiction, Gilded Age suspense, historical mystery, wrongful child removal, Progressive Era women's history, and legal conspiracy thrillers will find exactly what they came for-and a ending that demands Book Two.
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Recipient of the 2026 Indie Gold Award for Best Crime Fiction
Honored with the 2026 Indie Gold Award for Best Crime Fiction, Stolen By Order combines meticulously researched history with a suspenseful legal mystery. Through one woman's determination to challenge an unjust system, the novel explores justice, family, and the courage required to confront institutional corruption.
(Award presented by Indie Gold Book Awards, 2026.)
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