The Sister Effect A Novel

Susan Mallery

eBook - 2023

,"Mallery beautifully illustrates the power of female friendship and the importance of reaching for one's dreams."—Publishers WeeklyBeloved bestselling author Susan Mallery brings readers an emotional, witty, and heartfelt story that explores the nuances of a broken family's complex emotions as they strive to become whole in this uplifting story of human frailty and resilience.Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight ...and narrow—nose down, work hard, follow the rules.Sloane went the other way.Now Sloane is back, as beautiful and as damaged as ever...and she wants a relationship with her daughter. She says she's changed, but Finley's... more