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Shenna Coty Paju writes women’s historical suspense about strong women navigating the constraints of the early 20th century—and the cost of becoming powerful within systems designed to limit them.
Her stories explore the social and economic pressures of the era, following women who push beyond what is expected of them and are transformed by what it takes to survive and succeed.
Drawing on her background in healthcare and caregiving, Shenna brings a grounded understanding of systems, responsibility, and human resilience to her work.
Shenna lives in New Hampshire with her family.
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April 21, 2026
The law took her son.
She intends to take him back.
In 1905 New York City, a court order strips Mae Turner of her son—without warning, without goodbye.
As she searches for him, refusing to accept he is lost to her, Mae uncovers a hidden network behind the orphan trains—where children are taken, placed, and erased from record… along with the mothers who try to find them.
Inside the Children’s Court, decisions are made before hearings begin.
Files vanish.
The same names surface again and again.
And the deeper Mae digs, the more the system begins to close ranks against her—until finding her son may cost her everything.
The system isn’t failing.
It’s working exactly as intended.
And it does not return what it takes.
To get her son back, Mae must defy the very law she once trusted—and risk becoming the next name erased… another mother no one remembers.
Historical suspense inspired by the orphan trains, where child removal, sealed records, and unchecked authority collide with a mother’s fight for justice—perfect for readers of Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code and Pam Jenoff’s The Lost Girls of Paris.
July 21, 2026
Book 2 in the Stolen by Order Series
Mae Turner knows what it costs to lose a child to the Children’s Court.
So when she secures a position inside the very system she once feared, she believes she finally has the power to change it. As a probation officer in 1905 New York City, she will write the reports fairly. She will document what she actually sees. She will make sure no other family suffers what she has suffered.
But the system has been here longer than Mae. And it did not survive this long by tolerating people like her.
The harder Mae fights to do her job honestly, the more she discovers that honesty is not the currency this court trades in. And the deeper she goes, the less certain she becomes about where the system ends — and where she begins.
Entering the system doesn’t change it.
It changes you.
Book 2 of the Stolen By Order Series follows Mae Turner deeper into the corrupt courts of early twentieth century New York—where the most dangerous thing a woman can believe is that she is still in control.
October 21, 2026
Book 3 in the Stolen by Order Series