My husband told me not to come home just hours after I gave birth to our daughter.

My husband told me not to come home just hours after I gave birth to our daughter.

But the day after I left the hospital, he appeared at my parents’ doorstep with tears in his eyes, begging to see our baby.

Chapter 1: The Day Ian Said Don’t Come Home

What he told me left me so stunned that I could barely stand.

And suddenly, his strange reaction in the delivery room began to make sense.

I’m Liza Sheehan, I’m thirty-four, and I close real estate deals for a title company in Des Moines.

Which means I spend my days reading what people sign, and when.

I would think about that a lot in the weeks to come.

For six long years, Ian and I had dreamed of becoming parents.

Every negative pregnancy test sat in my chest like a stone.