My Sister's Prayer by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould

My Sister's Prayer is second in the Cousins of the Dove series by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould. Like the first book in the series this book has the dual timeline storyline, one current and one historical. The historical one is the next generation of Talbots and the first of the Talbots to come to the United States.  They are two Talbot sister, Celeste Talbot and her younger sister Berta. Against her parent's wishes Celeste falls in love with Jonathon. She defies her parents and runs off and boards a ship indenturing herself in exchange for passage. Jonathon is supposed to redeem her once she reaches the new world. While on the ship she realizes her sister is also on the ship and supposedly kidnapped against her will. Berta did not fare well on the ship. At one point they thought she would not make it.  Celeste did everything she could to take care of Berta. Things to not go as planned in the new world and the sisters face many hardships.  well on the trip across. She fell ill and  I will not go into details as I do not want to spoil this excellent story but I can tell you that the historical one keep me reading. I wanted to know if both survived the terrible ordeal they had to go through. There are many twists and turns in the historical one.

The modern one picks up where the first one left off. There is still the mystery of what the four girls witnessed almost 20 years ago. In this story more pieces of the puzzle are put into place but the mystery is still not solved. I'm looking forward to reading the last book in the series to find out what happened.  This story also includes two sisters who were two of the four girls. Madeline Talbot had taken on the task of looking after her sister Nicole who is recovering from a serious car accident. She also needs to make sure that Nicole stays in recovery from her addiction to drugs. This part of the story kept me reading. I wanted to find out if Nicole would stay off the drugs.  Also, there is a good looking doctor that Maddie is interested in. I wanted to keep reading to see how that would pan out.

In both stories there were two sisters and one sister taking care of the other. In both stories there was the sister who was deceitful but there was the bond that existed between the sisters in both stories.

Thanks to Netgalley and Harvest House publishers for allowing me to review an e-copy of this novel. This book is due to be released September 1, 2016. I look forward to reading the third novel in the series.