Glitter, the electrifying new novel from author Eliza Grace Howard, officially launches this week, and readers are already calling it a page-turner packed with heartache, hometown scandal, and one unforgettable woman’s fight to reclaim what she lost.
With a raw, emotionally charged narrative, Glitter follows Becky Barnes, a once-promising country singer whose life spun out of control after a whirlwind rise to fame and a crushing fall. After years away, Becky returns to her rural North Carolina hometown not with fanfare, but with a suitcase and a secret: she’s come to find the son she left behind. But the quiet town of Phillips hasn’t forgotten her… and not everyone is ready to forgive.
Torn between the wreckage of her past and the icy reception of a sister who never stopped paying the price for Becky’s mistakes, she must face the people she ran from, and the woman she’s become. As tensions rise, old flames and bitter truths ignite a reckoning that threatens to consume them all.
With sharp prose and a Southern gothic atmosphere, Eliza Grace Howard doesn’t just tell a story, she pulls readers straight into the heat of it. Fans of Diane Chamberlain, Kristin Hannah, and Delia Owens will find themselves at home here, with a heroine who’s flawed, fierce, and impossible to forget.
Early reviewers praise Glitter for its “deep emotional resonance,” “masterful pacing,” and “cinematic storytelling.” But at its heart, this is a book about second chances, the ones we seek, and the ones we don’t deserve but still fight for.
“I didn’t want to write a tidy story,” Howard explains. “I wanted to write a true one. One where choices have weight, but where love, especially the broken kind, still finds a way through.”
About the Author:
Eliza Grace Howard grew up as an only child on a small tobacco farm in Piedmont, North Carolina. Surrounded by books, she became an avid reader and writer. Before attending school, she could recall Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses. An “A” student, she graduated fifth in her class of 33. Her parody “Student’s Progress” was published in the National Beta Club Journal.
Unable to afford a four-year college, she took a one-year commercial course at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she discovered a love for accounting. She worked in the field until retirement. After a problematic first marriage, she found happiness in her second and moved to Houston, Texas, where she joined a writers’ group. Inspired by a romance-writing workshop, she began creating stories set in the fictional town of Phillips, publishing Choice, Glitter, Warrior, Hometown, Boss Lady, and Normal.
Skilled in sewing, quilting, knitting, and embroidery, she now makes handmade baby quilts. Her pen name honors her grandmother, Eliza, her mother, Grace, and her father’s surname, Howard. Eliza Grace Howard lives in Lawrence Township, New Jersey.
Eliza Grace Howard’s book, “Glitter,” is now available on the official website and Amazon.
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