Sisters Found by Joan Johnston, HQN, April 2008 (book 13- Hawk's Way)
Hope- With an 18 year age difference, Jake Whitelaw thought there was too much of an age difference between him and Hope Butler. At 18 he also felt she hadn't experienced the world enough and he became engaged to Amanda Carter. So Hope said she would go to college and asked Jake to wait for her. He told her that if Amanda were to set a date he would marry her. For three years while Hope went to college and traveled to Europe and Australia, no news came of a marriage between Jake and Amanda. Not until she returned home. Then the date was set, Christmas Eve. That gave her two weeks to make Jake realize he was marrying the wrong woman. Maybe Jake can see that he can be happier with Hope, but can he love her? Jake's brother Rabb was in love with Amanda. He had 2 weeks to make her see that she was marrying the wrong man. Add to the mix Hope's twin Faith who can see that Jake and Amanda won't be happy together and wants to see Amanda happy with Rabb and Hope with Jake.
Faith- Faith Butler has dated and loved Randy Wright for three year. Randy makes her feel less self conscience of the fact she only has one hand. She was constantly matchmaking, trying to get Hope and Jake together, Rabb and Amanda. And now finding out she had another sister if she could get Kane and Charity married then Charity would be living closer.
Charity- Kane Longstreet was a cousin of the Whitelaw's. He finally convinced Charity Burnette to come home with him and meet his family. Rabb and Amanda meet her first and mistake her for Hope because she bears an exact resemblance to Hope. It can't be Faith because she has both hands. Even though Charity says she's adopted, Amanda and Rabb dismiss the idea that she might be related to Hope and Faith because that may mean that Hope and Faith's parents had triplets and choose to keep two and give one away. But the girls were triplets, so what happen?
Will Faith be successful? Will there be 0 weddings? One? Two? Three? Four?
I didn't like the fact that Jake made love to Hope and didn't break things off with Amanda. For all his talk about honour, to me that wasn't very honourable. In the romance between Amanda and Rabb, I don't think she should have delayed putting off her talk to Jake about not loving him. Oh brother, these people are stubborn. Jake gets caught kissing Hope and carrying her into the house by Amanda and then hopes she will forgive him and marry him.
The back blurb made it sound as though Faith might lose Randy because of her concern with everyone else's happiness. But this was totally wrong. If anything Randy encouraged her to match make.
I had a really hard time with Charity's story because she automatically assumed that her parent's choose to keep Hope and Faith and give her up. Like there were no other possibilities. I think Kane and Charity had the most to overcome. Especially Charity, because her adoptive father walked out on her and the adoptive mother. Because he just couldn't live with the fact that Charity wasn't his blood. She has always felt unloved and has many trust issues.
All the couples concerned seemed to think sex solved everything. Then we had an ending that was very sugary. This wasn't a book where so many pages were Hope's story, so many Faith's, so many Charity's. These stories weren't separated into three short stories. All three (well actually four with Amanda and Rabb) were entwined. It was different. It was nice.
Excellence Rating- Good ~ Steaminess Rating- Sensual (*)
Personal total- 142 ~ harl/sil- 108 ~ other- 34
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