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On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bacha�TMs father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. a��These opals look identical,a�\x9d he tells them, a��but the fire inside each is completely unique a�" just like the two of you.a�\x9d Years pass, until a�" at their fathera�TMs behest a�" they both come home for Christmas. What happens then forever damages their relationship, and Richelle vows never to see or speak to her sister again. In their fathera�TMs last days, he asks Richelle to forgive Michelle, a deathbed promise she never fulfills as her twin is killed in an accident. Now, painfully alone and broken, caring for the sickest of children in a hospital PICU, Richelle has one last dream: to be an author. The plot of her book, The Prodigal Daughter, is a story based on her sistera�TMs life. Ita�TMs not until she meets Justin Ek, a man who harbors his own loss, that a secret promise is revealed, and Richelle learns that the story shea�TMs writing is not about her sister, but about herself.