Mercury is a family drama that will quickly worm its way into your heart and stay there long past the last page. The Joseph family is all about men, Mick Joseph the patriarch and his three sons, Baylor, Waylon, and Shay. Elise Joseph is an afterthought and unsurprisingly, the person doing all the unsung unpaid labor. 

After years of Mick's haphazard efforts and distractions, the book begins with the family roofing business in a precarious position. And a dead body. But at the forefront is a new girl in the small town named Marley. 

Marley gets the attention of Baylor, and then the attention of Waylon. Romance and circumstances sweep Marley away from her life plans and into the Joseph family where she takes on so much unpaid unseen labor and strives to gain Elise's love and approval. 

Full of twists and turns, this book is told in a nonlinear fashion and it really works to develop the characters and make this story compulsively readable and endearing. I adore these characters, specifically Marley and Shay. The layers of family secrets are a little over the top, but so believable in the context of the Joseph family. This book will make you feel. From the way it ropes you in with family drama to the way it captures 1990s small towns, this book is top tier.