Through the Broken Mirror

Previously published as Through the Broken Mirror by Danielle A. Calise.What if the life you didn't choose was the one that felt most like home?After a devastating accident, artist Eleanor Vale wakes beside Daniel-the man who once felt like destiny.Only this is not the Daniel she remembers from long ago. This is the man who stayed.Here, they have built a lifetime together: a deeply lived marriage, an art career Eleanor loves, old friends who know her without explanation, and the quiet intimacy of two people who have spent decades learning how to share a life.It feels familiar. Safe. Happy.Then memories begin to surface.Two daughters. A different marriage. Years Eleanor cannot reconcile with the life around her. A hand she can feel holding hers somewhere she cannot see.As both lives become real inside her, Eleanor faces an impossible truth: the life with Daniel may be every bit as beautiful as the life she once imagined-but the life she left behind contains people she cannot unknow.Through the Broken Mirror is an emotionally layered novel about destiny, motherhood, memory, the lives we might have lived, and the unbearable cost of discovering that more than one life can be worth loving.