After the Fire Author:Judith A. Jance Before she found fame as a best-selling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the personal anguish of being married to an alcoholic and secretly composed poetry that was published as After the Fire the year before her debut novel. Now this deeply personal work is available in a new annotated edition in which Jance offers unblinking i... more »nsights into these searing poems--remaking After the Fire as a portrait of addiction and the insidious ways in which it destroys relationships.« less