A letter received by the author from her mother in 1984 entitled "The Mother's Day Gift" proved to be the inspiration and key needed for Beverly Bowden Hendrix to begin searching for the answers to her many questions about her adoption. "Coincidental Pursuit" is an inspiring true story of the author's search for her biological parents. Adopted at birth in 1956, she takes you with her on her five-year journey where she explains how she overcame endless obstacles and beat the legal system of "closed adoptions" in a most unusual way through a series of uncanny and most amazing coincidences.