Sister's Choice (Shenandoah Album)

Just as Emilie Richards weaves her exquisite quilts, she has woven a story for everyone who loves family and especially has shared a special bond with a sister.
Set in the gorgeous Shenandoah Valley with its beautiful scenery and panoramic views, Kendra and Isaac Taylor are planning their dream house on land they own in this stunning mountain bordered property. In what would seem to be a perfect life, Richards tells how this couple have been sadly left childless even though they yearn for a family.

Jamie Dunkirk, Kendra’s younger sister is in a much different situation. Due to the difference in their ages, as well as a period when Jamie had left and the two sisters were estranged for years, Kendra and Jamie have never really been show more close. Jamie has gone back to school and her goal is to make amends for years past and reunite with her sister. She is a single parent raising two daughters, Hannah and Alison, while also in graduate school working toward her degree in architecture. In fact, Jamie even designs the plans for Kendra and Isaac’s dream home as a gift.

Just prior to Christmas, Jamie comes to visit unexpectedly and gives Kendra and Isaac another gift. Jamie offers to be a gestational surrogate so that Kendra’s perfect family dream can come true. She even tells them that while she and her daughters are living in the cabin on land near the building site, she can oversee things for them. Although apprehensive because of Jamie’s past, Kendra accepts the offer.

All would appear to be falling into place when handsome builder, Cash Rosslyn, enters the story. A relationship builds between Cash and Jamie, while Kendra closely monitors their activities, as she fears Jamie may suddenly revert to her old ways. However, Grace, Cash’s grandmother, is very supportive of the relationship and her own special love story and talented quilting skills- a signature in the Emilie Richards’ Shenandoah series- unites the three generations of women. Their bond is tested as Jamie faces a medical emergency that could tear their lives apart. Jamie is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. The choice she must make is what brings this story to its dramatic conclusion!

Each of Emilie Richards’ books in the Shenandoah Album Series has a title drawn from the name of a certain pattern of a quilt square. In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Sophia and Celie take fragments of torn clothes and curtains and piece them together creating the “Sister’s Choice” quilt square pattern. The strength of their relationship is comparable to that of the main characters in Sister’s Choice. In the same style, stories related to other quilt patterns make up this series of excellent books. Lover’s Knot and Endless Chain are just two of the charismatic stories from Emilie Richards. Fans of Jennifer Chiaverini’s “Elm Creek Quilt” series, and Debbie McComber will quickly have a new favorite author once you read Sister’s Choice or any of Emilie Richards’ work.

Submitted by K. Haney, copyright July, 2008 show less

Reunites readers with families of TomsBrook, Va. from other Shenandoah Valley books by Emilie Richards. Relationships can be perceived as real and current controversial issues are presented. Cozy in that the reader would like to share in the lives of the characters.

Another of Richards's Shenandoah Album novels. Jamie and her two young daughters have moved to Virginia to be closer to family. Jamie, who ran away from home at 17 and is only now reconnecting with her sister, offers to be a surrogate mother for Kendra's baby. Meanwhile, she connects with the contractor building Kendra's new house and with his grandmother. Life happens.

Another of Richards's Shenandoah Album novels. Jamie and her two young daughters have moved to Virginia to be closer to family. Jamie, who ran away from home at 17 and is only now reconnecting with her sister, offers to be a surrogate mother for Kendra's baby. Meanwhile, she connects with the contractor building Kendra's new house and with his grandmother. Life happens.

A very good story

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