Charlotte Vale Allen
Leftover Dreams. Doubleday, 1992.
After her sister Fay's dreams of marrying her childhood sweetheart are cut short by a botched abortion, Louise Parker strikes out for London to put her past behind her, but cannot find happiness until she solves the mystery of Faye's tragedy.

Heather Barbieri
Snow in July. Soho, 2004Viking, 1996.
A tale of two sisters: Erin, the responsible one and Meghan, the one who got all the attention. After years of being away Meghan comes back into Erin's life with her two small children, and is addicted to men, drugs, and danger. drugs. Nothing has changed and Meghan expects her yougner sister to get her out of trouble. But how much of her own can she be expected to sacrifice?.

Lois Battle
Bed and Breakfast. Viking, 1996.
After a decade of misunderstandings, ill will and blame, a aging widowed mother tries to reunite her three daughters during the Christmas holiday.

Elizabeth Berg
What We Keep. Random House, 1998.
Ginny and Sharla have never forgiven the mother who abandoned them, but when Sharla faces a terminal illness, the sisters decide to make peace with their mother.

Cindy Blake
Second Wives. St. Martin's, 1999.
Amy and Meg are both "second wives," replete with the demands of ex-wives, resentful step-children, and alimony payments, while Beth has decided that marriage itself is more trouble than it's worth. So when their youngest sister, Leonora falls in love with a older married man, they rally to save her from his vengeful ex-wife.

Susan Bowden
Sisters at Heart. Signet, 1997.
Finding herself unable to afford her daughter's tuition to Julliard, a widow contacts the father who gave her up 30 years before following the death of his wife (at the time he was a struggling musician and made the decision that he could only keep one of his daughters). To her surprise he invites her to his English estate, where she soon finds herself competing with the "kept" sister for her father's love.

Anita Brookner
Falling Slowly. Random House, 1998.
Two middle-aged sisters, the romantic Beatrice-a classical accompanist at the end of her career and health-and the realist, Miriam-a translator-seem unable to find relief from loneliness and isolation.

Rita Mae Brown
Loose Lips. Bantam, 1999.
Third installment in the saga of the battling Hunsenmeir sisters (Juts & Wheezie) of Runnymede, Maryland, who turn sibling rivalry into an art form. Preceded by Six of One (1978) and Bingo (1988).

Sandra Brown
The Switch. Warner, 2000.
As they have done so often in the past, twin sisters Gillian and Melina Lloyd switch identities. But this time the results are tragic and Melina will stop at nothing to learn the truth about her sister's murder.

Rita Ciresi
Sometimes I Dream in Italian. Delacorte, 2000.
As children Angel and Lina Lupo couldn't wait to flee their Italian-American household for the glamour of New York and Hollywood. Years later they have come to a crossroads in their lives and look back upon the past with wistfulness and sorrow, grappling with a past that seems too present and a future that seems too far away.

Leah Hager Cohen
Heat Lightning. Avon, 1997.
Tale of two pre-teen sisters and their search for the truth about the mysterious death of their parents during a storm and the connection that binds them together.

Karin Cook
What Girls Learn. Pantheon, 1997.
12-year old Tilden and her 11-year old sister, Elizabeth, are uprooted by their mother from Atlanta to Long Island after she falls for a man they've never met. But Nick seems an okay guy who helps them with their homework, and all goes well until their mother discovers a lump on her breast.

Eileen Curtis
Sisters and Strangers. HarperPaperbacks, 1996.
Three sisters are who have become strangers to each other reunite at a country cabin in the Catskills where they expose long buried hurts, dreams and secrets.

Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant
Far From the Tree. St. Martin's, 2000.
They are as different as sisters can be, but after housewife Celeste and actress Ronnie inherit a house following the death of their father, old family secrets come to light and they must discover who they are and what the future holds for them.

Eric Jerome Dickey
Sister, Sister. Dutton, 1996.
Follows the tangled romantic relationships of two African-American sisters and their brother Thaddeus.

Helen Dunmore
Talking to the Dead. Little, Brown, 1997.
When Nina returns to the English countryside to help her older sister, Isabel, who has recently had a hysterectomy following a difficult birth, it stirs up memories of their childhood relationship and recollections of their infant brother's death.

Joy Fielding
Missing Pieces. Doubleday, 1997.
Therapist Kate Sinclair must come to terms with her rebellious daughter, her mother's declining mental state and her unconventional half-sister who falls in love with an accused serial killer.

Lucinda Franks
Wild Apples. Random House, 1991.
When their mother dies, two sisters who have been rivals since birth try to rescue the family's failing orchard business.

Marilyn French
Our Father. Little, Brown, 1994.
As the rich and powerful Stephen Upton lies in the hospital following a stroke, his four daughters--each born to a different mother and estranged from one another--await his recovery, or death. Slowly the walls between them begin to crumble and they come to accept, understand, and even love each other.

Anne Carroll George
Murder On a Girls' Night Out. Avon, 1996.
Thrice-widowed Mary Alice and her long-married sister, Patricia Anne, purchase a local country-and-western club but when the seller's body is found in the tavern, this unlikely pair of sleuths join forces to solve the crime. Followed by: Murder on a Bad Hair Day (1996); Murder Runs in the Family (1997); Murder Makes Waves (1997); Murder gets a Life (1998); and Murder Shoots the Bull (1999).

Ruth Glover
Second Best Bride. Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1997.
Meg knew she could never compete with her beautiful and flirtatious sister, Marlys--until she finds a man worth fighting for.

Suzanne Goodwin
While the Music Lasts. St. Martin's, 1993.
During the Roaring 20s Viv, Claire, Julie and Isabel Bryant are sent out into the world to find suitable husbands.

Eileen Goudge
One Last Dance. Viking, 1999.
Daphne, Kitty and Alex Seagrave are planning their parents' 40^th Anniversary party when their mother inexplicably shoots their father to death.

Anne Griffin
A Very Eligible Corpse. Berkeley, 1998.
60-something sisters, the quiet, straighted-laced Hannah and the self-absorbed rather tacky Kiki, share nothing in common except a talent for solving murders. Followed by: Date with the Perfect Dead Man (1999).

Brian Harper
Blind Pursuit. Signet, 1997, 1996.
A killer kidnaps a psychologist in the hopes that she can cure him of his deadly compulsions while her twin sister struggles to save her from a man who possesses a terrifying secret about their family.

Jane Heller
Sis Boom Bah. St. Martin's, 1999.
When their mother suffers a heart attack, Deborah and Sharon Peltz are forced to stop their squabbling-until both find themselves attracted to her cardiologist. But when he is found murdered they must rely upon each other to get themselves out of trouble.

Paulette Jiles
Stormy Weather. Morrow, 2007.
The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine--confront the hardship of the Great Depression in barren, drought-ravaged Texas.

Anne LeClaire
The Law of Bound Hearts. Ballantine, 2004.
Sisters Libby and Sam Lewis were inseparable gorwing up, until a terrible event during in their 30s completely shatters their relationship. Now Libby discovers she has contracted a rare kidney disease that could end her life.

Helen Elaine Lee
Water Marked. Scribner, 1999.
Two estranged African-American sisters reunite in a search to understand their father and their family history.

Elinor Lipman
The Ladies' Man. Random House, 1999.
Thirty years after failing to show up at his own engagement party, Harry Nash arrives on the doorstep of his still unmarried ex-fiancé, Adele and her two equally unmarried sisters. While each had her own grudge, Harry is as charming as ever and becomes the improbable catalyst for love and knowledge.

David Long
The Falling Boy. Scribner, 1997.
Widower Nick Stavros and his four daughters welcome Mark Singer, a young man with no family, into their fold. He marries Olivia, the most serious of the quartet. When Linny, the eldest sister comes home from San Francisco, Mark is drawn into a long-standing sibling rivalry.

Tessa de Loo
The Twins. Soho, 2000.
Twins sisters, orphaned at the age of 6 in Cologne, Germany, are farmed out to relatives and raised under very different circumstances. Separated for many years,and divided by WWII and their opposing allegiances, the now elderly sisters meet again by chance at a spa in Belgium.

Rachel MacKenzie
The Wine of Astonishment. Viking, 1974.
Follow the lives and loves of the Henderson sisters of Pliny Falls, New York: the beautiful and temperamental Esther, who falls for a married man, and the dependable Martha, who sets her sights upon the pastor of their Presbyterian church.

Debbie Macomber
Orchard Valley. Mira, 1999.
When their father suffers a heart attack, sisters Valeries, Norah, and Stephanie are brought together for the first time in years. As they return home to Orchard Valley, Oregon, they rediscover the bonds of family, and, without expecting it, they also love.

Orchard Valley. Mira, 1999.
A trilogy of stories featuring the Bloomberg sisters who reunited for the first time in years at the side of their father who has suffered a heart-attack.

Jane McCafferty
One Heart. HarperCollins, 1999.
Sisters Gladys and Ivy are reluctant best friends who have depended upon each other through a shared lifetime marked by grief and loss, including the untimely deaths of Gladys's two children. But while bonded by love and loneliness, the sisters remain divided by a wall of silence and pain that prevents Gladys from accepting the solace Ivy so desperately needs to give.

Jenny McPhee
No Ordinary Matter. S&S, 2004.
Veronica Moore, who writes for a daytime drama, find herself in her own soap opera when she learns that her neurologist sister, Lillian, has intentionaly gotten pregnant from a one-night stand. Meanwhile, secrets about their father who died in a crash 25 years earlier are uncovered, Veronica starts dating Lillian's sperm donor, and another detective contacts them with the news that he has found their long lost brother.

Jo-Ann Mapson
The Wilder Sisters. HarperFlamingo, 1999.
Lily, tired of her high-powered sales job and Rose, recently widowed, return to the horse ranch in New Mexico where they grew up, each to deal with her individual mid-life crises. Over the course of a year, each falls in love with men who come with their own personal baggage.

Jean Marsh
The House of Eliott. St. Martin's, 1994.
Left virtually penniless after the death of their father Beatrice and Evangeline Eliott open a fashion house in 1920s London.

Judith Michael
A Tangled Web. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Glamorous divorcee Sabrina Longworth changes places with her twin sister, a housewife, for a week, but when Stephanie/Sabrina is reported killed an a boat accident Sabrina's life gets complicated.

Barbara Neil
A History of Silence. Doubleday, 1998.
Two sisters reach out to each other across the chasm of a childhood scarred by abuse suffered at the hands of their father and his mistress.

Elizabeth Palmer
The Golden Rule. St. Martin's, 1997.
In this tangled web of London high society, two sister with very different sensibilities deal with the breakups of their marriages.

Nora Roberts
Montana Sky. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
When a millionaire rancher dies he leave his spread to his three daughters-all born to different wives and unknown to each other. The terms of his will dictates that none of them can inherit their share until they have lived together for a year. Can the bickering daughters form a sisterly bond?

Lucinda Roy
The Hotel Alleluia. HarperCollins, 2000.
Separated at birth, two half sisters--one white and one black--grow up continents apart. Driven by their mother's death and the shadow of lonliness that haunts her life, Joan, a successful North Carolina businesswoman, departs for Africa to reclaim her sister Ursuline, who had been left behind as an orphan and is trying to decide if she has a vocation for the sisterhood. Soon after they are reunited, they country is torn apart by civil strife and the days they spend together will change them forever.

Rosamund Smith
Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon. Dutton, 1999.
A female serial killer seeks refuge with the twin sister who hasn't seen her in 15 years and who knows nothing of the other's violent dark side.

Danielle Steel
Sisters. Delacorte, 2007.
Four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family’s annual gathering. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. Now these sisters, who been fervently pursuing success and their own lives—on opposite sides of the world—reunite to share one New York brownstone, to support each other. By the same author: Mirror Image (1998).

Katherine Stone
Pearl Moon. RH, 1995.
Sisters Allison Whitaker and Maylene Kwan, strangers to each other who have been raised half a world apart, are thrown together by circumstance and must confront each other--and their pasts--in exotic and turbulent Hong Kong as it prepares to make the transition from British Crown Colony to Chinese possession.

Jessica Sterling
The Island Wife. St. Martin's, 1998.
On the beautiful island of Mull off Scotland's coast, sisters Innis and Biddy, fall in love with a handsome young shepherd named Michael Tarrant. But the sisters' rivalry in love exposes a terrible secret that leads to heartache and tragedy and changes the lives of all around them forever. Followed by: The Wind from the Hills (1999).

Gail Tsukiyama
Night of Many Dreams. St. Martin's, 1998.
Two sisters come of age in Hong Kong during and after World War II. While beautiful Joan hopes for a traditional family life, Emma sets her sights on a bohemian existence in San Francisco.

Cynthia Victor
The Sisters. Onyx, 1999.
Two feuding sisters who work in their father's law firm must rely on each other when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of their mother.

Nancy Wagner
Two Sisters. Avon, 1993.
While mild-mannered Jillian years for fame and love affairs her rebellious sister, Taylor, a popular TV news anchor, yearns only for Jillian's husband.

Mia Yun
Translations of Beauty. Atria, 2004.
A terrible childhood accident leaves Inah disfigured for life and leaves her twin sister, Yunah, with feeling of guilt for having been spraed the same fate. Years later Yunah reaches out to her sister, who has drifted away from her family and the sisters find their relationship tested as they are forced to confront unresolved issues.

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