01842cam a2200265 4500 605160929 TxAuBib 20221026120000.0 220907s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781542038843 PAP 14.95 1542038847 PAP 14.95 TxAuBib Nolfi, Christine. A brighter flame [BOOK] : a novel / Christine Nolfi. 1st ed. Seattle, WA : Lake Union Publishing, 2022. 289 pages ; 21 cm. "Vale Lightner's dreams turn to ash when the Pittsburgh bar she owns goes up in flames. Just like the past she escaped, very little seems salvageable. Facing unavoidable change, Vale returns to her hometown of Philadelphia to stay with her grandmother. She knows that returning also means facing everything she left behind: a mother and stepfather who shunted her into the background from the day they married, and her charmed and favored half sister, Blythe, who has abandoned a perfect marriage and is now at a crossroads of her own. Everyone has their secrets, and this reunited family racked by them is about to reach a crisis point. For a mother and her two daughters, this reunion is a chance for closure, newfound love, and forgiveness. As each of them reassesses her own memories of the past, only the truth can bring them together-in ways that could last forever. From the bestselling author of The Passing Storm comes a poignant novel about family secrets, healing, and the hope of second chances". 20221026. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Fires Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Pennsylvania Fiction. Domestic fiction.