Liz Johnson’s A Sparkle of Silver is sweet without being too maudlin and still believable even though it stretches the boundaries some. It has the potential to be a complete sucker punch to a reader’s emotions, with Millie trying to find a way to scrape together enough money to provide assistance to her Grandmother Joy, who is suffering from dementia. Ben, meanwhile, is trying to make money to pay back all the people his mother scammed. When Millie finds her great-grandmother’s diary that hints of hidden treasure at a historical house they work at, and that her great-grandmother lived in one summer, and Ben catches her in the act they decide to partner up to find it, while falling for each other. This has all the pieces to be a great tear-jerker, but I never felt quite pulled into the story enough for that, or that the characters were written quite well enough to pull me into their emotions. It is a nice story but at some points it almost seemed a little corny.