Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Muse, and Ms Copper for providing a copy in exchange for a fair and honest review. I listened to the audiobook narrated by Emily Barrett (which is not a version listed on goodreads).

There was way too much going on in this novel to be a coherent story. The description summary is intriguing but I found the plot and aaaalllll the sub-plots to be overly contrived. Sure, it's fiction and that everything is inter-connected... but those ties weren't very deep. Overall, this book was disappointing. I suppose, "baby farming" is a controversial topic but what did you expect in the 19th and early 20th centuries when birth control wasn't readily available?