HER SISTER'S CHILD

Author: Cynthia Thomason ISBN: 037371419X 5/2007 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: HARLEQUIN

"Actually, we've met before…" Ten years ago, to be exact. Then, Julia Sommerville was just an awestruck student in love with a dashing young professor. Now, after she has saved his life, Cameron Birch sees her for the attractive, alluring woman she's become. A woman who proves she has the courage to make extreme decisions by taking in her sister's eight-year-old daughter. However, when Julia finds out Cameron is the unwitting father of little Katie, she faces the hardest choice she's ever had to make: tell him and lose the child she has come to love, or lie and lose the man of her dreams for the second time….

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

There is something simple and emotional about the books that Cynthia Thomason writes. I have had the pleasure to read one of her historicals last year, and I just had the pleasure of reading one of her contemporaries. HER SISTER'S CHILD is the new release by Cynthia Thomason and is a Harlequin Super Romance.

HER SISTER'S CHILD is a heartbreaking and highly emotional story of a family's tragic loss and their struggle to put their lives back together. Grab a box of Kleenex and get ready to read a truly wonderful book!

Julia Sommerville returns to her childhood home in the hills of North Carolina after hearing from her mother that her sister, Tina, committed suicide. If that news wasn't bad enough, her sister's young daughter, Katie, must be cared for and her stepfather doesn't want that responsibility.

As Julia copes with such tragedy, she learns that her old crush has also returned to the mountains to spend some time in his grandfather's house. Cameron Birch was Julia's assistant professor when she was in college, and he also dated Julia's sister, Tina. When an accident throws the two of them together, old feelings start to resurface and Julia has a lot of soul searching to do.

As Katie begins to adjust to a new life and a new school, she and Julia's relationship with Cameron intensifies. It isn't until Julia learns a secret about Katie's biological father that the status of her relationship with Cameron, Katie and Julia's mother becomes threatened.

Cynthia Thomason takes on some serious issues in HER SISTER'S CHILD, and she does it with sensitivity and compassion. I loved the rich setting of the story, the true to life characters and the hard won happily-ever-after. A definite recommended read!

Julie Kornhausl