The Sound Of Glass by Karen White

The New York Times bestselling author of A Long Time Gone now explores a Southern family’s buried history, which will change the life of the woman who unearths it, secret by shattering secret.  
It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward’s husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news—Cal’s family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal’s reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt.
Charting the course of an uncertain life—and feeling guilt from her husband’s tragic death—Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where 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 new 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 Low Country. 

Review:	I was given an ARC copy of The Sound of Glass from NetGallery for an honest review so this is my review: The Sound of Glass is an emotionally packed book that has two strong women in the main roles each fighting their own battles that takes the reader on a memorable journey. Merritt the main focus of the book walks away from her life after her husband is killed and she inherits his family's home. As we learn more about her we find out her mother had died when she was a young girl and her father remarried and she never forgave him for that and died before they could reconcile. Then she married a man who she thought was her Prince but he abused her and then was killed while fighting a fire. Needless to say she has abandonment issues. So when her step mother and young step brother show up at her new home looking for a place to live Merritt does not want to let them into her life or her heart because everyone she loves leaves her. For Merritt' s part of the story White writes how she overcomes her fears with the help of her stepmother and stepbrother and her ex husband's brother Gibbes to become the strong woman that she can be. The way White writes about abused women in this book she shows that there is always another choice to be made. Now for Loralee I will not share what she is facing because it is not revealed right away but she decides to sell everything and move her 10 year old son across the country to meet his half sister Merritt because she wants them to get to know each other. Loralee was a great character with her Book of Truths that had little bits of wisdom that she shared with the reader and other characters. I must say that some of them made me pause from reading and just think about what was being said they were so profound. She was my favorite character in the book and I would love to discuss her more but I feel it would be a spoiler so let's just say my heart went out to Loralee and I don't think she was meant to be but I felt she was the strongest character in this book and for me she is the heart of this book. The Sound of Glass gets five out of five stars from me.