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Zusatztext Praise for The Sound of Glass “From the mysterious events of the first chapter to the heart-rending revelations of the last! Karen White paints a vivid portrait of a family filled with secrets! strife and—ultimately—love. I adore Karen’s stories and The Sound of Glass may well be my new favorite.”— USA Today bestselling author Diane Chamberlain “Complex and emotionally rich! Karen White’s Sound of Glass will linger in the reader’s heart long after the last page is turned. A gripping story! beautifully told.”— New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose “A richly imagined! multilayered mystery where interlinked stories and unearthed secrets of a damaged family lead to courage and healing. Engrossing from beginning to end.”— New York Times bestselling author Beth Hoffman More Praise for New York Times bestselling author Karen White “There is a rhythm to the writing of Karen White. It has a pace! a beat! a cadence that is all its own.”—The Huffington Post “White’s dizzying carousel of a plot keeps those pages turning! so much so that the book can [be]—and should be—finished in one afternoon! interrupted only by a glass of sweet iced tea.”—Oprah.com “White captures the true essence of Charleston by intertwining the sights and smells of the historic town with an enchanting story filled with ghostly spirits! love! and forgiveness…a once-in-a-lifetime series.”—Fresh Fiction “This is storytelling of the highest order: the kind of book that leaves you both deeply satisfied and aching for more.”—Beatriz Williams! New York Times bestselling author of Tiny Little Thing “Readers will find White’s prose an uplifting experience as she is a truly gifted storyteller.”— Las Vegas Review-Journal Informationen zum Autor Karen White Klappentext The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels explores a Southern family's buried history, which will change the life of the woman who unearths it, secret by shattering secret. Two years after the death of her husband, Merritt Heyward receives unexpected news-Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by his reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt. In Beaufort, the secrets of Cal's unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff. This unknown legacy, now Merritt's, will change and define her as she navigates her new life-a life complicated by the arrival of her too young stepmother and ten-year-old half brother. Soon, in this house of strangers, Merritt is forced into unraveling the Heyward family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Lowcountry. Prologue Beaufort, South Carolina July 1955 An unholy tremor rippling through the sticky night air alerted Edith Heyward that something wasn’t right. Like a shadow creeping past a doorway in an empty house, or the turn of the latch on a locked door, the movement outside Edith’s opened attic window raised the gooseflesh along her spine. Her breath sat in her mouth, suspended with anticipation as icy pinpricks marched down her limbs. Her gaze moved from her paintbrush and the tiny drop of red paint she’d drizzled onto the chest of the doll’s starched white cotton nightgown, to the sea-glass wind chime she’d made and hung just outside the window. The stagnant air of a South Carolina summer had stifled any movement for months, yet now the chimes seemed to shiver on an invisible breeze, the frosty blue and green glass twitching like a hanged man from a noose. She jerked her gaze to the locked door, wondering whether her husband had returned. He didn’t like locked doors. The bruises on her arms, carefully placed ...
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Karen White
