With its soul-deep tension, broken glamour, and secrets just beneath the surface, Glitter, the compelling new novel from Eliza Grace Howard, introduces readers to a woman who isn’t just trying to find her footing, she’s trying to reclaim her life.
Becky Barnes has come home. She says it’s for a visit. Says she just needs a break. But she’s not fooling her sister Clara, or herself. Her sudden return after more than a decade away raises questions, tensions, and ghosts best left buried.
Clara sees the old patterns. The sweet talk. The vanishing act. The promises. What Clara doesn’t know yet is that Becky isn’t just back for shelter or sympathy, she’s here to see Benjie, the son she walked away from when he was still a baby. Now fourteen and raised by Becky’s ex-husband and his new wife, Benjie doesn’t even know his mother’s name.
But Becky remembers him. Every day. Every year she stayed gone.
She doesn’t expect forgiveness. She isn’t sure she deserves it. But she’s ready to fight for the chance to look her child in the eye. Even if it means singing again in a smoky club run by a man who always dealt in favors with strings. Even if it means borrowing a car she can’t pay for. Even if it means waking up every morning with regret beside her. Because Glitter is not a comeback story. It’s a reckoning.
In the skilled hands of Eliza Grace Howard, what could have been a simple tale of redemption becomes something far more layered. The novel pulls readers into Becky’s unraveling world, one late-night drive and painful confession at a time. The writing hums with sharp edges and quiet heartbreak, reminding us how hard it is to go back, and how dangerous it can be to stay.
As Becky battles shame, judgment, and the fierce loyalty of a sister who’s tired of cleaning up her messes, readers are left with the question: Can a woman rewrite the story she left behind… or will the past reclaim her before she gets the chance?
Glitter is a piercing exploration of motherhood, fame, and the price of disappearing. It refuses tidy endings and demands that we feel every mistake, every silence, every note Becky sings just to stay afloat.
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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