rj kaphart

James Hoffman is a successful aviator and businessman who has a secret. Several in fact. Events and experiences in his youth have shaped his behavior and choices. Choices his wife and her best friend fully support. But Hoffman’s behavior masks a deeper desire.

Set in a Midwestern University town, A Wilderness of Mirrors explores the motives, desires and obsessions driving the Hoffman's marriage. A marriage of alternative sexual preferences, promiscuity and intensely erotic desires.

Dr. Robert Wentworth McNabb has transitioned from the corporate to the academic world. Hired by the University to develop a new curriculum, his life changes drastically after an accidental meeting with the Hoffman's.

Detective Jake Hollis is nearing retirement. When the lives of McNabb and the Hoffman's intersect, Hollis is drawn into what will be the defining case of his career. The case leads him into a world of wealth, privilege, betrayal and violence; all driven by hedonism, hubris and a shared psychological syndrome that proves lethal. 

Join Detective Hollis as he navigates a labyrinth of psycho-sexual twists and turns that ends with incontrovertible evidence of guilt. Evidence Hollis knows is accurate, solid and wrong.