The Sound of Glass by Karen White / 448 p.

Merritt Heyward has been a widow for two years and unexpectedly receives news that she has inherited a home from her late husband's (Cal's) family located in Beaufort, SC. Merritt leaves her home in Maine to hopefully begin a new life in South Carolina.
    Merritt's stepmother (also a widow) shows up in SC with a 10 year old step brother Merritt barely knows.  There's so much that she doesn't know and Merritt wants to keep it that way.  Unfortunately, her stepmother is there to stay and so much family history is about to enter her life.
     I enjoyed the Southern customs and her stepmother's constant positivity. In the end it is Merritt's half brother and Cal's brother (who Merritt didn't know existed) that bring her to a new place in her life.

Night of Miracles/Elizabeth Berg/261 pgs

This story picks up a few years after Berg’s heartwarming book, The Story of Arthur Truluv ends. Maddie and her daughter, Nola, have moved out of the house Arthur left to Maddie when he died, because she is getting married.  But, Lucille stills lives there.

Lucille is busy with her baking classes that Maddie encouraged her to teach.  In fact, she is so busy that she hires Iris Winters to help her on the business side of things.  Lucille also has new neighbors next door who have a young son who adores Lucille.  Lucille helps out by watching the boy while his parents struggle with his mother’s illness.  This is one of the things that keeps Lucille vital.

But, Lucille being nearly 90 years old starts to show her age.  Lucille reluctantly begins to let Iris handle more of the class preparations and eventually the teaching duties.

Lucille and Iris’s loving hands touch more than just the goods they bake in this heart wrenching story.

The Girl I Used To Be/April Henry/ 229 pgs

Ariel Benson’s mother was killed when she was only three years old.  Her father was the suspected murderer.  His truck was found abandoned at the airport shortly after her body was discovered and he hasn’t been seen since.  But now, fourteen years later, his skull has been found and identified by DNA.

Ariel, who now is known by her adopted name, Olivia Reinhardt, returns to the town where she was raised to find out what really happened to her parents.  She soon begins having long suppressed memories of her parents and the fateful day they were killed.  Unfortunately, the killer fears that she might remember him/her and she is in for the fight of her life to stay alive.  Good read!