Sister Mothers (Novel Series)

Sister Mothers is a novel series written by Maryam Wells. The series chronicles the lives of sisters Lucy and Maya Cooper, who are forced to work together to care for their orphaned niece, Kaylie.

Synopsis
The series begins with Lucy and Maya leading their normal lives in L.A. Lucy is a 3rd grade teacher at 42nd Street Elementary School, while Maya is a hair and makeup artist at Salon Eccentric. They are single and living lives in L.A. Although Lucy is more career-driven and Maya is a party girl. Then the girls meet up when they are invited to dinner at their widowed father's house, along with their older sister, Kelsey and her daughter, Kaylie. It is shown that although the girls are close with their older sister, they are not close with one another. They also adore their niece. However, at dinner, their father, George is annoyed Lucy and Maya's constant arguing.

One week later, while Lucy is out on a date and Maya is at a party at a friend's house, they are contact by their father, informing them that their sister, Kelsey was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. He informs the girls that Kaylie was at a friend's slumber party at the time of her mother's death. At Kelsey's funeral, George is told that Kelsey has left Kaylie in the care of Lucy and Maya in her will. Realizing that his two surviving daughters are now guardians of his only granddaughter, George decides it would be the best way for the girls to learn to work together and care for Kaylie. The girls give up their apartments and move in their father's home to give Kaylie a real home. At first Lucy and Maya struggle with their new reality as mothers to Kaylie. Lucy, unable to drop Kaylie off at her school, ask Maya to go in her place. Maya and Kaylie catch a bus, due to Maya not having a car.

Raising a child and dealing with her new responsibilities becomes too much for Maya to handle and she packs up and moves out of her father's house. This angers Lucy and berates Maya as irresponsible. George tells Lucy to cut her sister some slack as she is struggling with her new reality. Lucy admits that she is also struggling. George could tell that Lucy is upset at the fact that her mother's and older sister's deaths had turned her life upside down as well as Maya's. When Maya returned, George overhears that the girls decided to give up custody of Kaylie to him, leaving George angry that his daughter want to back out of their responsibility. He also livid that they want him to tell Kaylie.

Later on, Lucy and Maya learn from Kaylie's teacher that Kaylie had return to school earlier than expected following her mother's death. They also learn that Kaylie has started to open up since being care for by her aunts. Slowly, the girls re-adapt to their roles as guardians. They watch Kaylie's soccer game. Kaylie learns about her aunts' decision to leave her with her grandfather and runs away. After finding her, Kaylie wishes that her mother never left her with her aunts. Lucy and Maya are crushed by Kaylie's words and realize that they were jerks to back out of caring for Kaylie and want to make things right. After their talk with their father, the girls talk to Kaylie and decide that they want to raise Kaylie.