Family

Family is a central theme in Mountain Sky by Nora Roberts. The novel revolves around three sisters, the daughters of Jack Mercy who meet on the day of their father's funeral. Forced to live together for a year in order to fulfill the terms of Jack's will, the three women are not close to a family unit and are as different from each other as night and day. As events unfold around them the sisters are drawn together to face adversity from an unknown source. Because of this, three women who were discarded by the man who fathered them find themselves bound, forming a family despite the willing destruction of the family they might have known by the man who drew them together after his death.

Another aspect of family, or lack of it, is the motivations of the killer, Jim Brewster. Brewster becomes a killer when he...