When the Mirror Cracks

Christina Phillips, grieving after a personal tragedy, leaves California for Istanbul, hoping the exotic sights and sounds and smells of the ancient city will help her heal. But when she finds herself being stalked by a young Kurdish woman and threatened by a driver who seems to know all about her family and her life, she must correct old injustices by unraveling family secrets before tragedy strikes once again.
Zari Rahman fled the bombs and chemical warfare of war torn Kurdistan, seeking safety and a new life for her newborn daughter. In Istanbul, homeless and desperate, she receives an unexpected kindness that comes at a soul-crushing price.
The lives of these women collide in the city where the East meets West, where together they must travel a perilous path to justice and redemption. 
When the Mirror Cracks connects the past and present narratives of mothers and daughters in a tale about women and sacrifice, community and exclusion, cultural identity and the refugee experience.

May McGoldrick, Nik James, and Jan Coffey are pen names for USA Today bestselling authors Nikoo Kafi and Jim McGoldrick. Together, they have crafted over fifty historical, contemporary, and Western novels, as well as two works of nonfiction.
Garnering numerous awards over the years, their work has been published in print, digital, and audiobook form by Penguin Putnam, HarperCollins/Avon, MIRA Books, St. Martin's Press, Heinemann, Sourcebooks, Macmillan Audio, Dreamscape Media, and Tantor Audio. Their stories have also been translated into over a dozen languages.
Jim holds a PhD in sixteenth-century Scottish and English literature. As a tenured Associate Professor of English at DeSales University, he taught literature and creative writing before pursuing a full-time writing career. Despite her love of writing, Nikoo's education and training were in engineering, and she worked in robotics and submarine shipbuilding before her change in career. In addition to writing, Nikoo served for seven years as the State of Connecticut Education Connection Writer-in-Residence, developing and teaching an inclusive creative writing program for middle school students.