Gordon Gerick, author of The Bungling Angel, has written a soul-searching novel about adoption. A Silent Adoption was written for anyone who has a passion and love of children. Patricia Akins is coming of age in the eighties where a small Southern town offers the setting for a family fraught with turmoil. Patricia discovers sheas pregnant two weeks after her fiancA©as death. Later, due to a fall, Patricia delivers her daughter, Noel, prematurely. Under unusual circumstances, and against Patriciaas wishes, Noel is adopted. Nineteen years later, Noel begins a search for her mother, but the reunion is not what either expects. Faced with questions, doubt, and second guesses, both women search for healing.