When Becky Barnes stepped out of that borrowed car and walked into her sister’s kitchen, she wasn’t just holding grocery bags, she was holding the weight of years gone wrong. In Glitter, the brilliant novel by Eliza Grace Howard, every scene is a reckoning, and this one hits with quiet force. Becky didn’t come home to heal. She came home to survive.
The town she left is the same one that whispered behind her back years ago. The same one that remembered her as the pretty one with the voice and the scandal. Now, she’s back with a used car bought on borrowed charm and a gig singing at a club where the price of opportunity is steeper than the paycheck.
But beneath the quick comebacks and flashy eyeliner, something deeper is unraveling. Becky wants to see her son, the boy she left behind when her dreams felt bigger than motherhood. The boy who now belongs to someone else. Her sister Clara sees the storm coming, and she’s bracing for the fallout. Because in this town, people don’t forget. And they don’t forgive easily.
That’s the tension Glitter thrives on, second chances that come too late, and the question of whether love can survive absence. Or if it should. The past doesn’t knock. It breaks the door down.
Grab your copy of Glitter by Eliza Grace Howard today on Amazon or visit the author’s official website. This is one story you won’t walk away from unchanged.