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Monday, September 5, 2022

  Finished: The Storm Sister (Riley) Book 2 of the Seven Sisters Series!  Six sisters gather at their childhood home to mourn the loss of their very wealthy father, who adopted them all as babies from different parts of the world. The second sister, thirty year old Alcyone D'Apliese (or Ally as she was called), is the sister who shared both a love of music, specifically the violin, and a love and obsession for sailing, with her father, Pa Salt. He raised the girls on a huge estate on Lake Geneva, only accessible by boat. As they gather, along with their longtime female caregiver, Marina (Ma for short), they are devastated that they can't see him one last time. He's already been buried at sea privately, per his last wishes. The thing is...Ally had actually been out on a boat with a friend and they'd seen her father's yacht from a distance. Radioing that they were coming, the yacht quickly pulled away from them. On her visit back home, Ally finds out that she actually just missed seeing Pa Salt's burial at sea. This makes her feel even guiltier for not being there when he died. This story begins with sailing mates Ally and Theo and the newfound love they'd just discovered before Pa Salt died. When tragedy strikes for Ally again, she decides to pursue the clue that Pa Salt left her about her birth origins and it takes her to Norway! We then travel to the past and read about the life of Anna Landvik, a mountain girl with a beautiful voice, who was discovered in Norway over a hundred years ago and sang the lead vocal for the first ever performance of another favorite of Ally's, Grieg's musical "Peer Gynt" based on Ibsen's play. We are thrown into the life of Anna, her rise to success and her love for violinist, Jens Halvorsen, and all the trials that she encounters in her young life before the connection between Ally and Anna is finally revealed...along with a surprise, living relative that Ally is able to welcome into her life! Another good book! :-) 

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