Do you know anyone whose perfect life is just an illusion?Meet Michelle Black. Comfortably married to her soulmate since college, she's living the American Dream. But one day, when she's almost 40, cracks appear in the facade of her middle-class suburban utopia. The more she ignores them, the more the cracks widen, threatening to reveal the truth she's run from all of her life. As Michelle struggles with her resolve to spend the rest of her days inside the house of cards she's built, mental illness and addiction take hold of her.Disenchanted with her personal life and faced with mounting career pressures, 39-year-old Michelle Black dreams of escape. But the high-octane finance professional and mother of two is ashamed to admit the depth of her struggles. Michelle's frustration intensifies when her fumbling attempts to ask for help go unheeded. Then, work goes from bad to worse. Desperate to relieve the bleakness inside, Michelle turns to unspoken addictions and dangerous behaviors for a balm to her wounded soul.When the band-aids fail, what can she do next?In this first volume of the Souls on Fire novella series, a clandestine meeting between two people ends with a kiss that changes everything. Unaware of the journey they've set upon together, or the choices they made that forever entwined their paths, they return to their fractured lives only to discover that nothing is as it seems to be.