The Favorite Daughter by Patti Callahan Henry

This is the story of a family that was broken apart by betrayal and only their father's failing health brings them back together again.  After all, when you're on your wedding day and go looking for your sister to join the wedding party and find her in your fiance's arms being kissed, would you hang around?  It's easier to leave town and her past behind and start a new life far away.

Berkley Publishing and Net Galley allowed me to read this book for review (thank you).  It is being published June 4th.

When she comes back to help her father and find out how they can, there's no way to avoid her sister or Walter, her husband.  He should have been hers and now she doesn't want to be around him.  Her younger brother and her father both try to get to reconcile with her sister.  She doesn't want to but the longer she talks to her, the more she thinks she should.  There's some harsh words between them but both are trying to be honest.

They make a memory book for their father and learn a lot about him from talking to the folks in the pictures with him.  Everybody has a different memory and saw different things in him.  They feel even closer to him.

The family finds out a secret her father has been holding his entire life.  He doesn't want to tarnish his wife's name.  But they convince him to share and Lena learns something she never knew.

This story is mixed with happy and sad.  A lot happens while Lena is home and it looks like she's coming back.

This author writes realistic stories with lots of emotion in them.  This one was another good read.