Title: Where the Heart Is (novel)
Content:  Forney, who is well-educated and born from wealth, deserves someone better than her. Lexi eventually gives birth to her fifth child, and soon after begins dating a handsome and charming banker named Roger Briscoe. The relationship is short-lived after Roger beats Lexi to within an inch of her life after Lexi discovers him sexually assaulting Brownie (Brummett), her oldest son. Brownie calls Novalee for help, and she rushes to the apartment to discover Lexi beaten and bruised on the bed. As Lexi recovers in the hospital, Novalee moves the Coop family into her tiny house, and cares for the children 
Title: Where the Heart Is (novel)
Content:  the help of her neighbors and Mr. Sprock. Lexi is soon released, but she and Brownie become distant and withdrawn as a result of their trauma, and Lexi's guilt over allowing Roger to target her children. Forney's sister Mary Elizabeth soon dies in a fire that burns down Hull Manor and the library. Novalee goes to visit him and offer her support, and they end up making love before Forney leaves for Maine to bury his sister. After Forney leaves, Novalee fully accepts that she loves him, but shows trepidation when Lexi congratulates her. Novalee's doubts about her self-worth manifest 
Title: Where the Heart Is (novel)
Content:  Forney returns home to the news that the rebuilt library will be headed by someone else, leaving him without a home or job. Faced with the prospect of Forney working at a plastics plant, a job Novalee believes is beneath him, she deliberately breaks his heart by telling him she doesn't love him, so that he no longer has any ties to Oklahoma. Forney, heartbroken, leaves Oklahoma and Novalee behind. Over the following few months, Forney sends letters intermittently to Americus, who is equally heartbroken with his departure, with little to no mention of Novalee beyond cursory formalities. Novalee struggles 
Title: Where the Heart Is (2000 film)
Content:  have to move in with Novalee and Americus. Lexie breaks down, feeling guilty and angry, tearfully regretting her choice in men. Forney's sister, Mary Elizabeth, later passes away. When Forney does not appear at the funeral, Novalee finds him in a hotel and comforts him. They act on the feelings they have denied for so long and spend the night together. Forney confesses his love for her, but Novalee confides in Lexie that she has never considered herself good enough for Forney and is confused about her feelings for him. Her continued feelings of unworthiness become overwhelming when he says that he intends 
Title: Where the Heart Is (novel)
Content:  she needs in order to save her buckeye tree, and takes a walk to Sister Husband's home to ask permission to plant her buckeye on her property, to which Sister agrees. As the weeks pass, Novalee becomes good friends with Forney, Sister Husband, and Sister's companion Mr. Sprock. Forney, who is beginning to fall in love with Novalee, throws her an intimate 18th birthday party in the library, consisting of gourmet dishes he's cooked himself. The celebration is cut short when Forney's alcoholic sister Mary Elizabeth takes a fall upstairs and Forney is forced to come to her aid. Two months 
Title: Where the Heart Is (novel)
Content:  get over Forney and her guilt at sending him away, justifying her decision with the fact that Forney has more opportunities at a better life without her. Lexi berates Novalee for undervaluing herself, and Novalee makes a single attempt to reconnect with him after she finds the bookstore in Chicago where he now works, but cannot bring herself to tell him the truth. Lexi, meanwhile, befriends a coworker, Leon Yoder after she recovers enough to return to her job. Though she is initially adamant that she does not want a relationship because of her previous experience, he demonstrates tremendous kindness 
Title: Where the Heart Is (2000 film)
Content:  stay with her rather than resume his studies at Bowdoin College in Maine. Believing that his life would be a dead end with her in Sequoyah, Novalee struggles to lie to Forney, saying that she does not love him. Heartbroken and rejected by Novalee, Forney returns to Bowdoin. Novalee learns that Lexie is seeing Ernie (Bob Coonrod), an exterminator who does not possess the physical attributes that have attracted her interest in the past, but she falls in love with him after learning that he gave his ex-wife his restored 1967 Chevy Camaro in exchange for custody of his stepdaughter, whom he adopted 
Title: Where the Heart Is (British TV series)
Content:  the Yorkshire moors and feeling that the show had found its home. She then set about finding the show's cast with the help of Lewis and casting director Gail Stevens. One of Featherstone's biggest inspirations for the series was Margaret Tiffany, a district nursing sister based in Meltham. Tiffany had twenty-three years experience working her role in the Colne Valley area. She helped Pharoah research information for the stories included in the first series of the show and assisted cast members with their research as well, particularly Ferris. Tiffany also acted as a nursing advisor, providing information on medical practises and procedures, 
Title: Where the Heart Is (2000 film)
Content:  Lil, the estranged mother of Novalee. ; Laura House as Nicki, one of Novalee's friends from Tennessee. ; Karey Green as Rhonda, one of Novalee's friends from Tennessee. ; Mark Vogues as Religious man, a man from Midnight, Mississippi who abducts baby Americus. ; Angee Hughes as Religious woman, a woman from Midnight, Mississippi who abducts baby Americus. ; Margaret Hoard as Mary Elizabeth Hull, the sick sister of Forney. ; Mackenzie Fitzgerald as Americus Nation, the daughter of Novalee. ; Alicia Godwin as Jolene, a 14-year-old girl who ropes Willy Jack into assisting in her recent heist. ; Dennis Letts as Sheriff, an unnamed sheriff who arrests Willy Jack for being involved in Jolene's heist. ; Rodger Boyce as Officer Harry ; David Alvarado as Tommy Reynolds, a cellmate 
Title: Where the Heart Is (2000 film)
Content:  to the complications of her alcoholism. ; In the novel, Lexie marries her co-worker Leon Yoder. In the film, Lexie marries Ernie the exterminator. ; In the novel, Forney instead travels for some time before settling in Chicago. In the film, Forney returns to school. ; In the novel, Willy Jack makes it to California where he fails to get money from his cousin in Bakersfield, tries to pawn his guitar for money which falls through, and ditches his current girlfriend where it leads to his train accident. In the film, the girlfriend goes into a restaurant to eat which led to Willy Jack's train accident. ; Novalee's marriage to Forney only occurs in the film. 

Question: forney's sister in where the heart is?
Answer: Margaret Hoard.
Mary Elizabeth.