The Keepsake Sisters by Lori Wilde

 THE KEEPSAKE SISTERS – Lori Wilde

A Perfect 10

Harper Collins

ISBN: 978-0-06-295318-6

February 23, 2021

Women’s Fiction

 

Moonglow Cove, Texas – Present Day

 

After learning through a DNA test site that the twin sister she thought had died at birth is really alive, Chicagoan Amelia Brandt heads to Texas to locate and meet her identical twin, Anna. While the reasons why the two were separated at birth are unknown to them, it’s important that Amelia contact Anna because Amelia needs a kidney. Arriving at Anna Drury’s home, it’s no wonder that Amelia shocks her twin because they look alike. Can she forge a friendship with her twin—and get what she needs?

 

Anna Drury can hardly believe who is at her door. Her identical twin! She believes Amelia is telling the truth, though the other woman offers the DNA test results as proof. Anna had forgotten she ran those a few years ago, having not logged into the site to check in a long time. Anna’s husband, Kevin, is immediately suspicious of Amelia. At first, he thinks she is lying, then wonders why she suddenly showed up out of the blue. What is Amelia Brandt after? For Anna, it doesn’t matter. She feels an immediate connection to her twin, though Amelia is more reticent.

 

The astonishing story of the twins affects not only them, but Anna’s mother—or the woman she thought was her mother. As THE KEEPSAKE SISTERS opens, we learn that during the birth of the twins, several women were in labor at the Moonglow hospital in the middle of a hurricane. One was Robin Straus, who had her husband, Heathcliff, by her side. An out-of-town couple from Chicago arrives during the storm, the woman in labor with twins and not happy about being pregnant. The lights soon go out. After Robin gives birth to a girl and goes in and out of consciousness, Heathcliff discovers their baby girl is dead. The woman pregnant with twins gives birth to daughters and the midwife, Winnie, is left holding one of the baby girls as they take the other twin to another room. She exchanges a glance with Heathcliff. The rest is history…and fate.

 

Once I started reading THE KEEPSAKE SISTERS by Lori Wilde, I could hardly set it down. The first meeting of the twins is intense. Just imagine if someone showed up on your doorstep looking exactly like you. Anna is both scared and excited. She wonders how it all happened, but at the same time, she relishes having the sister she only wished she had. After talking about what likely happened, they zero in on Winnie, who now has Alzheimer’s and is currently in a local care facility. Heathcliff Straus died last year and took the secret of what happened to his grave. Robin feels threatened by the appearance of Amelia because if it’s true, then Anna is not really her child. Anna begins fighting with Kevin because he doesn’t trust Amelia. Will she choose her twin over her husband? They have two children. How will the appearance of an unknown relative affect them?

 

THE KEEPSAKE SISTERS is a wonderfully told tale and for me, one of the best reads so far in 2021. For this reason, I am giving it A Perfect 10. This is not a romance, but instead it is the emotional journey of two women who discover they are twins. That esoteric connection between the twins is very much there. When they are together, Amelia and Anna only need to exchange looks, or touch one another, to feel what the other is feeling. Their upbringings were different, with Amelia raised in wealth, while Anna was raised in a middle-class home. But despite all this, Amelia will be asking Anna to give her something precious. Will it happen?

 

Don’t miss this inspiring and emotional tale. Pick up a copy of THE KEEPSAKE SISTERS today.

 

Patti Fischer