Mirror, Mirror : A Novel

Lacking in self-confidence and enduring the mistreatment of an insensitive employer, overweight twenty-eight-year-old secretary Jordan finds passion and fulfillment in the arms of her boss's partner, only to discover that he is already married, a situation that culminates in her being falsely accuse

From the acclaimed author of My Diet Starts Tomorrow—a sexy and suspenseful novel about love, work, weight, relationships, and murder that reflects the passionate and empowered woman inside all of us.

In her captivating second novel, Laurel Handfield takes readers into the unfulfilled life of twenty-eight-year-old Jordan. Jordan works as a secretary insensitive employer who constantly mistreats her, but she lacks the confidence she so needs and passively accepts the daily humiliation and degradation. That is until his partner Trent Prescott engages her in candlelit dinners and sizzling nights of passion. In spite of her insecurities about her self-worth (and weight), Trent makes Jordan feel alive again.

But chaos strikes when someone ends up murder and suspicions fall on Jordan, Trent reaches out to help her. Can she trust him? Faced with a crisis that will determine the rest of her life, Jordan knows she has to change in order to survive. The only problem is that she may not recognize the woman staring back at her from the mirror.

Can love change a woman? Is there such a thing as an ideal soul mate? Filled with rich emotional drama and romantic suspense and featuring an engaging heroine with whom readers will instantly identify, Mirror, Mirror is another winning gem from a wonderful new voice in African American literature.