Mortgaged Goods

You can't outrun a past that was bought and sold. 
Raised by a loving immigrant family in Melbourne after being sold by her abusive father, Natalia overcame her traumatic past to become a brilliant lawyer. She thought she found her fairy tale when she married a charming, highly successful attorney—until Karl’s narcissistic demands fracture their marriage.

When a devastating car accident leaves her newborn son in the ICU battling potential brain damage, Natalia’s world is completely shattered by the discovery that her adored foster mother has been keeping a shocking secret about her past. Confronting this truth changes everything. 

Forced to witness how the justice system fails the vulnerable, Karl must finally confront his own arrogance and choose to be the man his wife and child need him to be.
 

Mortgaged Goods is psychological legal and family drama. It combines the deep, Melbourne-based search for identity and past truths found in Jennifer Down's Bodies of Light with the sharp domestic tension and critique of systemic privilege in Jane Caro's The Mother."
Fans of Liane Moriarty will love Mortgaged Goods, a moving Australian family saga about deep secrets, justice, and survival.