Jamie Klinger-Krebs

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 Sentinel's 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, Erin's 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 Erin's 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 Erin's 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 Erin's 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 But, another unexpected twist surfaces when Jules' editor comes forward with an unpublished column in which Jules intended not only to publicly admit her affair with Erin, but also explain her long-denied sexuality--a truth, she says in her own words,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.

Was it a family curse that led to the murder of Grace Harper at the hands of her husband in 1975? This is the question her great-granddaughter, Ellie, seeks to answer in The Other Side of Silence. Though Ellie has never met her great-grandmother in life, she awakes to find herself face-to-face with the woman who lived a lifetime before she was born. Through Grace, Ellie learns the family's torrid past of witchcraft, infidelity, and a spell that has haunted them for generations. But, can she solve the family mystery? Or is it too late to learn from past mistakes and save herself?