~Emily~I have things I want to do in the future that don’t begin and end in Ellensburg, Washington where I was born, raised, and doomed to live out the rest of my life. My whole existence is already set and planned, right up until the exact moment when I’m to walk down the aisle. But I run. I flee and hide in a car, which is how I first meet Ramiro Vasquez. Now he’s the only one I’m willing to … willing to trust and be honest with.
Having just graduated from college with a journalism major, I know how to tell other people’s stories, but the one I want to tell most of all is my mother’s. With nothing to go on and even less information, the more I inquire about it, the less she’s willing to share. My parents would lock me in my room if they suspected what I really want to do. Which is why I’ve never done it. And also why I almost abandoned my dreams by marrying the wrong man.
Perhaps now, my family’s wishes will no longer stop me. I am beginning to understand some of Ramiro’s secrets, which bind his family to mine. But the greatest, harshest lesson of my life might still be ahead of me when I realize that sometimes, the past is never really dead. Now and then, the past can manage to destroy you and the ones you love the most. No matter how much you try to stop or avoid it, and don’t mean to hurt anyone, sometimes, nothing can undo the damage after it’s already been unwittingly unleashed.
This book contains profanity and sexual content. Mature audiences ONLY
No Cliffhangers
Daughters is a four book series:
Christina
Natalie
Melissa
Emily
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Emily
(Daughter series)
Leanne Davis
I’ve read most of the books in the Sister series, but I never read the Jessie’s story. The Daughter series are standalones. To understand the books better I recommend reading, “The Other Sister” (book #1) & “The Years Between”(book #1.5).
Emily’s story starts off as a runaway bride who feels trapped. She knows the life she’s expected to live isn’t something she wants any longer. She would of never guessed the man who became her knight in shining armor has a story who will rock her world. Emily finds that Harrison, her ex wants vengeance for being stood up and humiliated. He will stop at nothing. When she finds that Ramiro hasn’t been completely honest with her.
It rocks Emily’s and her families very world. Will Hendricks family come back from their haunting past & put it to rest to face the present? Can Emily forgive Ramiro and find the happiness they both deserve?
Both the Sister and Daughter series are just reads. Don’t forget to grab a box of kleenex for waterfall of tears.
I love reading anything and everything Leanne Davis writes. She pours her heart into her work. Her books will hold captivate you for hours on end.
This book is amazing just like the other book of the series. Emily is the youngest of the family . She just walk out of her own wedding . When she does she walk into Ramiro. She goes and work for her dad while she workout her life .. she want to write her mom story about her past, the rape, the kidnapping but will Jessie let her do it . Ramiro wanted something out ou Hendricks will he get it or will is attraction to Emily change it ? This is a must read book and you will not regret it.
Emily is the final book in the Daughters series, and what a shocker this one turned out to be. Emily was always the one that had everything planned out and knew what she wanted to achieve. It opens on her wedding day, and at the very last minute she realizes she can’t do it, and runs from the church. Ramiro, a landscaper, sees her and offers her a ride. Emily still wants to writes Jessie’s story, but Jessie does not want her too. This is Emily coming to terms with the fact that all of her planning is not really what she wants out of life. She decides to work with her dad to pay back for the cost of her wedding, and to her surprise she enjoys the work. She decides to stay working with Will and to learn all about the business. She also becomes friends with Ramiro, and it seems as if they both want more. But can they make it work, or will secrets that have tear them apart. Emily’s ex does not turn out to be the person she thought he was, and she almost has to pay that price several times. Jessie is worried that Harrison is going to escalate and hurt Emily, but Emily doesn’t believe it. Ramiro is there for Emily every time she seems to need him. The epilogue is epic and brings everything back to Jessie and Will. This one will pull on your heart strings and you will have so many emotions reading it. Emily turns out to be so much more than I thought. I can’t say enough about Leanne Davis’s writing style. She amazes me with each book I read. Sad to see this series come to an end.
Another fantastic book by one of my favorite authors in the Daughters Series! Emily’s story brings the Sisters and Daughters Series full circle for an amazing but bittersweet end. I cannot wait to see what Leanne come out with next.
Fourth and final installment in the Daughters series by Leanne Davis, and as usual never a dull moment in the lives of the Hendricks daughters. Emily’s story opens up with her running for her life, from a church full of friends and family waiting for her to walk down the aisle to marry her longtime boyfriend Harrison. Her escape from matrimony leads her to Ramiro Vasquez whose too perfect timing as her knight in shining armor is both a blessing and a curse. Emily’s story is truly another gut-wrenching emotional read. Especially the epilogue, if you have half a heart you may need tissues ready. This was definitely a five star grand finale to a series. I loved this book. Ms. Davis never disappoints.
It was fascinating how Jessie’s story circled back around with the story of her youngest daughter. Emily, as described in the other books, was not the Emily in this book. She wanted to share the story that her mom struggled to live through. Meeting Ramiro gave Emily a friend when she really needed one. He treated her well – as she did to him – when she really needed a friend. It was remarkable, when things weren’t what they seemed. It wasn’t a typical ending, but it was fitting for the Hendricks clan.
This is book 4 in the Daughter’s series by Leanne Davis and the last in the series. This story starts with a bang. Emily is about to get married but runs. She just wasn’t ready and ran. Ramiro is her savior. He picks her up and takes her to his place while she figures out her next move. Emily has all these idea about what she wants to do but it goes against her mom. This is a great book and series. I loved seeing how everything ended.
WOW! WOW! WOW! OMFG!! What ENDING to This Series!! EMILY by Leanne Davis and it was such a Rollercoaster ride of TWISTS AND TURNS INTO the UNKNOWN that Have your Jaw Dropping several times!!
All I can say is that ‘m SPEECHLESS and EMILY was Epically Phenomenal!!
WARNING…You will Definitely need Tissues by the End of this Book and Never a Dull moment page after page while devouring it in ONE Sitting!!!
Definitely Must Read Book Series….HANDS DOWN!!!
Emily Hendricks is supposed to be having the most special day of her life but on her wedding day she gets cold feet and runs into a landscaping truck that is in the parking lot to make her escape. Now she needs to figure out her carefully planned out life once again.
Ramiro Vasquez is in the perfect spot to help Emily escape from her wedding to Harrison Jencks. He also becomes a sounding board to Emily as she plans on using her journalism major to write a story about her mom and everything that she went through in her life. Yet Ramiro has his own secrets and is he willing to use Emily to get what he wants?
Yet soon Emily discovers that some secrets are meant to stay buried and no matter what our intentions were things don’t always work out how we planned them too. When Emily has to confront her own past and mistakes made will she be able to put everything behind her and focus on her own future?
This was another great book in the series and I am sad that it is coming to an end but the author has done such a great job with each of the girls and really wrapping up the love story of Will and Jessie.
Emily was someone in the previous books that had her life all planned out in front of her but she realized that she didn’t want to marry Harrison Jencks. Soon we discover that Harrison is not the guy Emily thought he was and the things he and his friends do through the book to Emily is so disappointing and devastating. I hated what was done to her on social media but I loved how she ended up overcoming it and starting her own you-tube channel to talk about what she went through.
I hated that Emily was so insistent on telling Jessie’s story as it was clear that Jessie didn’t want anyone knowing what happened to her and I completely understood. It was Jessie’s story to tell and she wanted to move on from it and have as few people know as possible due to everything that was involved with it. There were so many secrets that put certain people’s lives in danger.
Ramiro Vasquez was an interesting character as you really want to hate him for wanting to possibly cause harm to one of our favorite characters. Gradually Emily worked her way into his heart but Ramiro was so conflicted because of how he grew up and then beginning to learn another side of the story. He kept so much of himself hidden that I was surprised when certain truths came out as I had presumed the same things that Emily did.
I liked that Ramiro was there for Emily when she was up against Harrison and how everyone ended up getting involved. Emily rose above everything in the end and ended up helping so many other women in the future because of what she had been through.
The end was awesome and I loved the epilogues! I will definitely miss these characters!
Oh wow, this book was the best book in this series thus far. Leanne Davis never ceases to amaze me with her fantastic writing skills. Every body she writes gets more amazing each time. I loved the characters in this book and once I started reading this book I could not put it down. Great book and highly recommended.
I wanted to hate Ramiro once I saw his end game. But he quickly grew to be likable. Harrison on the other hand was a tool. Emily’s obsession with telling her moms story warmed me in one aspect but broke my heart in another. I didn’t want her to open up old wounds. Her story was a little less intense as the others but it drew the story of her family to a close in a good way. Jessies epilogue made me cry.
My favorite of the Daughters series. So sad to see this story come to an end. Bittersweet moments reading the epilogue, finishing with Jessie and Will a full circle back to the beginning.
All of Leanne Davis’s books are good and make you feel the personalities of each character. Emily seen the more stable part o her mom and her dad doted on her, but the part that shocked me was when she ran away from her fiancee. Ramiro helped her escape from the rape she suffered and helped her escape her fiancee. The secrets, the tears, and the changes Ramiro shows in his personality was daunting, but in the end, Leanne had some secrets up her sleeves and the book will make you cry and laugh. Great book.
The best ending to a series. Emily’s story is my favorite of the Daughter series. It brings everything full circle that started with Jessie and Will.
Always love the books in these series. Emily and Ramiro’s story does not disappoint. They both come back from such odds. To find love through it all.
This is the final book in the Daughter’s Series and it is packed full of good reading. We start off with Emily running away from her wedding with a lawn service employee. The baby Hendricks realizes as she’s about to walk down the aisle that she just can’t do it. She has a lot of growing up to do while starting a friendship with her rescuer, Ramiro, trying to talk her mother into letting her write a book about her rape, working with her dad and dodging her ex fiancé and his threats. Lots of drama, tears, secrets, and cold hard facts.the epilogue wraps up the series beautifully.
A gut-wrenching emotional journey started with Jessie and Will. Their story has played out over the Sisters and Daughter series. Emily is the last book in the Daughter series and the epilogue at the end requires of box of Kleenex to get through it.
This final book in the Daughter’s series gives us the youngest daughter’s story. But it’s so much more than that. Its been 3 ½ years since I first read The Other Sister (Jessie and Will’s story) and I have never forgotten how that book left an impact on me. Jessie’s story is heartbreaking and shocking in the atrocities that were done to her. And now almost 30 years later after many years of PTSD and depression all while being married and having 4 girls, those atrocities that were done to her still impact her life and in extension to her daughters.
Emily being the youngest doesn’t remember the bad years like her older sisters. Of all of them she had the more stable Jessie (Mom) and was doted on by her father who had more time to give her as Jessie didn’t require as much of his attention by then. When she sets her mind to something she always follows through – has always done the right thing. So it was as shocking to her as it was to the rest of her family and fiance when she runs away from her wedding. She is aided in her escape from the church by a stranger called Ramiro.
I have to admit I was really worried when I read the sneak peak of this book and saw what Ramiro’s true intentions were. But I should have known the author had lots a surprises up her sleeve and Ramiro was defiantly that.
Both Emily and Ramiro beliefs in many matters are completely changed by the end of the book. Fate and destiny play a huge role in their relationship. Theirs was a sweet love story beating what could have been insurmountable odd against them.
That’s epilogue from Jessie POV about killed me but from where this all started it was a bittersweet ending to the ultimate love story of two people that had been through hell and survived and got to see their daughter’s grow up, marry and have kids of their own.