Why It Connects
The impossible part isn't the point.
Fading Ember uses a speculative mystery to explore what happens to a marriage, a career, and a person's trust in himself when something he knows to be true cannot be proven to anyone else.
After a car accident, Daniel wakes having lost ember — a sense of lingering warmth he remembers clearly and no one else remembers at all. Doctors call it a symptom. His parents don't remember it. His closest friends don't either.
Unable to find proof through any of the ways he's supposed to look, Daniel starts looking in ways he isn't — testing what he's willing to risk, and who he's willing to lie to, to hold on to something he can't make anyone else believe.
Setting: Northern Ontario (Sudbury, North Bay, Marten River)
Who It's For
Readers who enjoy —
- Strange premises
- Relationships under pressure
- Memory and perception
- Dry humour
- Grounded Northern Ontario settings
