02326cam a2200361 i 4500 625985630 TxAuBib 20211116120000.0 210206s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982177423 hardcover 198217742X hardcover (OCoLC)1236260102 YDX YDX eng eng rda rda YDX rda rda BDX YDX CLE IH9 OCLCF FNN TXDPL TxAuBib BDX CLE IH9 OCLCF FNN TXDPL TxAuBib rda Evans, Richard Paul, author. The Christmas promise / Richard Paul Evans. First Gallery Books hardcover edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2021. 274 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach's father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. "These opals look identical," he tells them, "but the fire inside each is completely unique--just like the two of you." Indeed, the two sisters couldn't be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until--at their father's behest--they both come home for Christmas. What happens then forever damages their relationship, and Richelle vows never to see or speak to her sister again. In their father's last days, he asks Richelle to forgive Michelle, a deathbed promise she never fulfills as her twin is killed in an accident. Now, painfully alone and broken, caring for the sickest of children in a hospital PICU, Richelle has one last dream: to be an author. The plot of her book, The Prodigal Daughter, is a story based on her sister's life. It's not until she meets Justin Ek, a man who harbors his own loss, that a secret promise is revealed, and Richelle learns that the story she's writing is not about her sister, but about herself. 20211116. Twin sisters Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Death Fiction. Promises Fiction. Authors Fiction. Domestic fiction. Christmas fiction. Fiction. TXAAL