02303cam a2200373 i 45000010011000000030008000110050017000190080041000360200015000770200018000920350022001100400008001320920015001401000038001552450048001932500042002412640037002833000023003203360026003433370028003693380027003975201123004246500032015476500041015796500025016206500029016456500027016746550033017016550036017349070016017709420014017869990017018009520112018171236260102MeVbMML20220201142048.0210206s2021    nyu           000 1 eng d  a198217742X  a9781982177423  a(OCoLC)1236260102  cAJM  aE9225b.ch1 aEvans, Richard Paul,eauthor979814aThe Christmas promise /cRichard Paul Evans  aFirst Gallery Books hardcover edition 1aNew York :bGallery Books,c2021  a274 pages ;c19 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aOn 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 0aTwin sistersvFiction99485 0aFathers and daughtersvFiction96520 0aDeathvFiction95913 0aPromisesvFiction910068 0aAuthorsvFiction96629 7aDomestic fiction.2lcgft961 7aChristmas fiction.2lcgft92984  a.b171721901  2ddccBOOK  c28046d28046  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcAFd2022-02-01g21.99l3oEVANp63435r2022-06-07s2022-04-26w2022-02-01yBOOK11