On Burning Mirrors

On the outside forty-year-old Jules Kanter seems to have the perfect life--a beautiful daughter a loving husband and a successful career as the arts and entertainment editor for an award-winning newspaper. But Jules also has well-hidden secrets.While celebrating the Milwaukee Journal Sentinels recent Pulitzer Prize win Jules meets Erin a thirty-four-year-old musician/bartender who instantly catches her attention. As a talented performer who rose to stardom in Nashville Erins career faded almost as soon as it began. After using drugs and lying about her sexuality Erin lost her record deal and narrowly escaped jail only to find herself back in her hometown working at a bar and caring for her ailing mother. Intrigued by Erins checkered past Jules becomes a regular patron at the bar and consistently hounds Erin for permission to write her story. Though repeatedly turning down her attempts for an interview Jules begins to pique Erins interest as well. Soon the pair finds themselves in the midst of an illicit (and very secret) affair. Then on a snowy January night while driving home from Erins apartment Jules is tragically killed in a car accident. Weeks later her husband Will who is struggling with grief and sobriety discovers evidence of her affair on her cell phone.Attempting to understand how his wife could be involved in a same-sex affair Will uncovers an article Jules wrote about Erin as well as poetic and confessional letters she addressed to herself. Needing the truth Will tracks Erin down and angrily confronts her but the pair begins to realize just how much Jules hid from them both. But another unexpected twist surfaces when Jules editor comes forward with an unpublished column in which Jules intended not only to publicly admit her affair with Erin but also explain her long-denied sexuality--a truth she says in her own words that must first be admitted when facing yourself in the mirror.On Burning Mirrors has received the following awards and recognitions: The Eric Hoffer Award - 2019 Honorable Mention The Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award - 2019 Finalist for cover design Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award - 2018 Finalist for LGBTQ Fiction American Fiction Awards - 2018 Finalist for LGBT and General FictionWhat readers are saying about On Burning Mirrors: Wow is all I can say about this book. Its bittersweet tragic and even difficult at times but I can honestly say I havent read a story quite like it before.The character development of Will and Erin is beyond reproach and left my heart aching for them both.The story bounces back and forth from past to present I love how the author did this beautifully with no loose ends. A thought-provoking character study on sexual identity marriage and family and self-authenticity.