The book ‘In the Light of the Garden’ is written by Heather Burch. ‘In the Light of the Garden’ is a charming novel about unearthed family secrets, the enchantment of past loves, and the indelible power of forgiveness. As the story goes, thirty-one-year-old charity Baxter inherits his grandparents’ island estate on the Gulf Coast of Florida with a special kind of homecoming.