In “Autumn’s Crossing,” an infant is saved thanks to U.S. Border Patrol agent and single mom Peyton Cote’s shoot-out along the U.S.-Canada border. What follows is Peyton, star of D.A. Keeley’s three-book series set in Aroostook County, Maine, discovers problems within the adoption system and a baby-selling ring with ties to Europe.

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