Ashley Dyson is the intended mother who, after enthusiastically entering a surrogacy arrangement with Norah, suddenly finds herself stuck in a sort of motherhood purgatory: she is a mother of a three-year-old daughter and an unpregnant mother-to-be of a baby growing inside the womb of another woman four states away; she and Norah have formed a close friendship, but they are also business partners, the ‘business’ being carrying Ashley’s baby; there is the traditional role of ‘mother’ and there is this new, ambiguous role of ‘intended mother’. With honesty, humor, and heartbreaking insight, Ashley shares her experience of navigating through this new landscape with no guidebook, no map.