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Twin brothers, two years old, are snatched out of their Chicago home at noon on their birthday, never to be seen again. The kidnappers never make contact. The crime haunts the city, devastating those left behind. As the anniversary of the abduction approaches, freelance journalist Jase Deering begins to investigate a case gone cold for the police. What he finds is a paranoid former nanny who had the word “mirrorrorrim” carved into her flesh that fateful day and a trail that leads to a fabled figure, Aubrey Hart Morick. Morick, dead for many years, was an iconic practitioner of the black arts whose legacies are a scandalous reputation and a son named Graham. Increasingly convinced that Graham Morick is more than the simple, innocent man he claims to be, Jase Deering finds the line between natural and supernatural beginning to blur. His determined search for the truth may cost him, and everyone he holds dear, more than he can bear.
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A journalist with a hunger for the deeper story, the kidnapping of twin boys, fantastical claims of magic and inhumanity, and an ever increasing sense of chaos and conspiracy drive the reader straight to the mirror's edge in this fast, cold thriller. The boys' kidnapper leaves their nanny disfigured - the word “mirror” carved in mirror image between her thighs; their father's security system captures the act on tape. Writer Jase and his partner (romantic and business) Robyn become embroiled in a mystery which, frankly, appears to possibly be the figment of Jase's overactive imagination, the horrors of his childhood grown into impossible demons. Stories conflict, senses deceive, and trust is broken.
Sparse and wry, narrator Jase's voice really brings the overwhelming evil and complexity of the story to life.