A Certain Kind of Starlight
A Novel
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- ¥1,400
発行者による作品情報
In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars in A Certain Kind of Starlight, the next book from USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber, "the queen of magical small-town charm" (Amy E. Reichert)
Everyone knows that Addie Fullbright can’t keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the biggest secret of all. One so shattering that Addie felt she had to leave her hometown of Starlight, Alabama, to keep from revealing a devastating truth to someone she cares for deeply. Now she’s living a lonely life, keeping everyone at a distance, not only to protect the secret but also her heart from the pain of losing someone else. But when her beloved aunt, the woman who helped raise her, gets a shocking diagnosis and asks her to come back to Starlight to help run the family bakery, Addie knows it’s finally time to go home again.
Tessa Jane Wingrove-Fullbright feels like she’s failing. She’s always been able to see the lighter side of life but lately darkness has descended. Her world is suddenly in shambles after a painful breakup, her favorite aunt’s unexpected health troubles, and because crushing expectations from the Wingrove side of her family are forcing her to keep secrets and make painful choices. When she’s called back to Starlight to help her aunt, she’s barely holding herself together and fears she’ll never find her way back to who she used to be.
Under the bright side of the stars, Addie and Tessa Jane come to see that magic can be found in trusting yourself, that falling apart is simply a chance to rise up again, stronger than ever, and that the heart usually knows the best path through the darkness.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Magic and family share the spotlight in this intimate low fantasy from Webber (Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe). When Addie Fullbright returns to her hometown of Starlight, Ala., she thinks she knows what she's getting into. Her aunt Verbena's health is failing and Addie is there to help, despite harboring a secret so devastating that she—who is terrible at keeping secrets—was forced to leave town in order to keep it. Addie's half sister, Tessa Jane, is also in Starlight for a month to help her aunt, but she's not prepared to face Addie—or her grandfather, who has his own plans for Tessa Jane and her inheritance, a portion of the mysteriously glowing meteor crater that gives the town its name. As secrets come to light and Aunt Verbena continues to struggle with her health, Tessa Jane and Addie must face their past conflict in order to come together to protect the crater and the magic it holds. Throughout, Webber skillfully weaves real magic into the everyday magic of the connections between family and friends. Women's fiction readers searching for a subtly fantastical story will want to snatch this up.
