Silver Girl

In Elin Hilderbrand's Silver Girl, this emotionally-charged woman's fiction novel is so strong and pulls at your heart strings real tight. For Meredith DeLinn, her world came tumbling down when her husband Frederick was arrested for financial crimes and ripping people off with the Ponzi scheme. While she spent time in the prison, Meredith can't talk to her two sons, while she's under investigation for any wrongdoing into it. But when her best friend, Constance Flute, asked her to join her at her summer home in Nantucket, she's happy to oblige. Though there's been a rift between them, Meredith reflects back on her relationship with Connie, her relationship with Connie's brother Toby, and how she met Fred DeLinn many years ago. She'd thought she had it all until it came crashing down on her with his lying deceit. In order to free herself from the public's eye in scrutiny, and criticism, she has to remember any subtle clues from the past while she remained the target. For Connie, she's a widow and estranged from her only daughter, Ashlyn, ever since she lost her husband Wolf. But on the island, she does everything she could to support Meredith's claim of innocence. But when she meets Dan Flynn, a widowed father of two sons, she becomes enchanted with him and lets herself fall in love with him. For Meredith, when Toby's resurfaces in her life, she has to make amends and cut her losses in order to have the freedom she so deserved to start her new life.

This was a beautiful woman's fiction novel that deals with the themes of friendship and second chances in life and love. I cared for Meredith on how she dealt with her family issues due to the financial investigation against her husband. I loved how she searched for clues to the past like a miner panning for gold in the water to help set her free and clear her name. I loved how Connie reached out to her in her time of need to seek refuse on Nantucket Island--an idyllic and serene place to set sail for the location and the remote scenic settings for the backdrop. I did feel sad for her on how Ashlyn didn't want to seek to her, but she did reach out in the end. But I loved how she cared for Meredith and how she found new love with Dan on the island.

If you love a sweet endearing and powerful profound woman's fiction novel that has non-stop drama, plenty of suspense, sparks of love, and hints of mystery along the way, Silver Girl is the one for you.