Emilie Richards Sister's Choice

Sister's ChoiceEmilie RichardsMira, Jul 2008, $24.95ISBN: 9780778325659For years thanks to unhealthy childhoods and an age gap of just under a decade, sisters Jamie Dunkirk and Kendra Taylor never bonded until recently. They have become the sisters they always wanted to be, but feared becoming. Jamie and her two young daughters, Hannah and Alison, even move into a cabin on property owned by Kendra and her husband Isaac in the Shenandoah Valley.Jamie, a graduate architect student, decides to repay Kendra's kindness by drafting up the plans for the dream house her sister and Isaac desire. Looking forward to being an aunt, she also offers herself as a surrogate mother so that the dream house contains the child her sis and husband so desperately want but never had. However, builder Cash Rosslyn makes Jamie reconsider part two as she is falling in love. This is an engaging family drama starring fully developed protagonists. The tension in the tale occurs when Cash enters the lives of the three Dunkirk females, as each has differing opinions regarding his being part of their family dynamics. Emilie Richard's provides an engaging contemporary tale of various types of relationship loves, but especially that between sisters.Harriet Klausner