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Cassie Clark, daughter of a socialite mother and a lumber baron father, was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but when the Great Depression hits the Midwest it changes the fortunes of both rich and poor. Trying to keep their affluent lifestyle, Jonathan Clark makes difficult business decisions, but the results directly affect his family—leaving Cassie to pay the highest price. When Cassie’s father reaches out to a trusted advisor, he becomes an unwitting player in the Chicago underworld where rum and money flows. Even children become commodities and are bought and sold. Wealthy patrons who want a child for love or cheap labor are willing to pay thousands on the black market Baby Road. But if there is a road that takes a person from the pain that follows them, Cassie isn’t on it. Her path takes her far away from home, and loneliness only adds to her emotional baggage. Alone to solve her problems, she finds strength in her own abilities and develops new definitions for friends and family. Recreating herself, Cassie also wants a man to love the woman she has become. But will anyone overlook her tainted past? Born with a Tarnished Spoon is a tapestry of life and loss in the 1930’s.