Queer parenthood: It's multifaceted. It's complex. And it is constantly changing, as laws and culture shift around us. What's in a Name? reflects on this complexity through the voices of nonbiological/non-gestational queer mothers/parents who explore our experiences parenting across our different social and familial locations. The authors have all taken different routes to parenting, live in different countries, and understand our relationships to parenting through our own personal experiences. What we share is a commitment to parenting beyond the limits of biology, and of building families that are drawn together and maintained by the love and labour of parenting. The fifteen essays in this book address three key moments in our parenting journeys. First, we examine the routes we took to parenting, with many of us specifically focusing on the experience of being the "other" mother while our partners were pregnant, and the particular fears, anxieties, and triumphs that come with it. Second, we locate ourselves "in the thick of it" as parents, where the experiences shared among parents are colored by our particular experiences as nonbiological/non-gestational mothers/parents. Finally, we reflect on our identities, including the identity of "mother," and how those grow, shift, and develop throughout our parenting journeys.

Picking up where Painful Reminders left off, Cari reconnects with Gilles Rodriquez in LA. That sets off a chain of events that ultimately takes her to Switzerland, in an effort to find a missing painting. But things that seem straightforward are anything but, both in the investigation, and her personal life. The scenery may be beautiful, but the criminal elements are not. Sometimes she chooses to let go, and other times she's forced to.

Painful: causing pain; hurting; distressing
Reminder: a person or thing that reminds
Painful reminders: we all have to live with them, but Cari's have already cost her a relationship, a career and her health. Now that she's getting her life back together, a stalker is planning to move in for the kill.