Blessed Be

A teenage girl hemorrhages to death on a dusty road in northern India—only hours
after giving birth.

A newly graduated American medical doctor commits six months to serving with an NGO that specializes in maternal health.

In a town in Uttar Pradesh, worlds converge. When the girl’s body is delivered to the Yasalima Women’s Health Clinic, Dr. Perry Roslyn is on hand to receive it. Shocked by what she finds during her post-mortem examination, Perry is haunted by questions about the unidentified girl’s circumstances. When her search for answers leads to an orphanage where the girl may have lived, she is stonewalled at every turn. Undeterred, she begins to chip away at the Sacred Mercy Home for Children’s carefully cultivated veneer of propriety, an undertaking that fast becomes both dangerous and dark. In a bid for self-preservation, Perry enlists the help of her childhood friend Joy Luk, a struggling freelance journalist in New York. As the women together manage to peel back layers of deception and get closer to the heart of what’s going on, they uncover some horrifying and sinister truths about the value of human life. And the lengths some will go to in order to profit from it.

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