Becky Barnes once had her name in lights. Her voice turned heads in Nashville bars, her song Tarnished Rose made the charts, and she chased fame like it might fix everything she left behind. But in Glitter, Eliza Grace Howard shows us what happens when the lights go out, and all that’s left is the past you thought you outran.
She didn’t plan on staying long in Phillips. Just long enough to catch a glimpse of the boy she gave up. His name is Benjie. He’s fourteen now. He calls someone else Mom. She stands outside the elementary school, nerves prickling, telling herself she’s just looking.
A teacher steps out, Donna Cavanaugh. Polite smile, soft voice. Becky already knows who she is. She married Quinn, the man Becky once walked out on. And now Donna is raising her son. When Benjie appears, Becky barely breathes.
He has her eyes. Her hair. But not her memories. Not her pain. To him, she’s just another woman outside the school gates. He says hello. Becky nods. That’s all. She watches him walk away, happy, whole, loved. And she’s left with everything she never said. That moment wrecks her.
Glitter isn’t a comeback story. It’s a reckoning. It’s the silence after the applause and the questions that haunt a mother who left, and came back too late. Becky’s story will stay with you long after the last page. Grab your copy of Glitter by Eliza Grace Howard today on Amazon or from the author’s official website.