Sister's Choice (Shenandoah Album Series)

Wonderful!

My mom got this while in the hospital and told me about it. What wonderful story of love and being sisters.

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Great Vacation Book or sick in bed book

I read most of the Shenandoah Books. They are easy reading.....sometimes a little too predictable. But I totally enjoyed the relationship between the two sisters ---- how different they were from one another. But in the end, the love showed through.

another great novel in the series

Emilie Richards writes about characters that you care about. It's nice to come back and visit characters that you've already met in a previous book and learn more about other characters. Ms. Richards has been writing for many years now, and I always enjoy her books.

Wonderful Read

It was an enjoyable book. Worth the read.

Wonderful book

I've read all of Emilie Richards Shenandoah Valley books and loved them all but this one is my favorite. She makes you want to go to the locations and meet the people. There's love, drama, friendship, great characters and, of course, quilts. A must read for everyone. Check out the quilt patterns on the internet.

The Best 'Read' of Summer 2008

As in all the books in her Shenandoah Album series, in 'Sister's Choice' Emilie Richards paints a dreamy but at the same time totally realistic picture of one of the most beautiful places in America---Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Chapter by chapter, paragraph by paragraph, word by word, 'Sister's Choice' evolves as a colorful quilt of excellent writing pieced together a block at a time by Ms. Richards. She combines strong, unforgettable characters and a surprising gift that redefines the entire concept of sacrificial love into a plot that holds your interest from beginning to end. 'Sister's Choice' is a rich, touching, triumphant story of love and people and a place you'll not quickly forget.

engaging family drama

For 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 re 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

A Charismatic Story of Sisters' Love

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 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.

A Heartfelt story

Emilie Richards is one of those rare authors that gives us a view of a great storyteller. Her books are always top on my list and Sister's Choice is right up there. I just finished Emilie Richards newest in her Shenandoah Quilt Series 'Sister's Choice'. She never disappoints me her novels are so refreshing and filled with such heart and soul and I always like how she has subplots that also get taken care of in her novels. There's a lot going on in the book but you never feel a sense of rushing through anything and there's always closure in her books. This novel deals with two sisters and the gift that one gives to the other and what happens to their lives as they deal with that gift and with the people around them that become a focus of their lives.

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