After the Tears Dry: Literary Suspense Novel

by Sandra K-Horn

Heartbreak. Self-Discovery. Maybe a little Revenge.

Marcie is devastated when her husband asks for a divorce at their twenty-fifth-anniversary dinner. She quit the job she loved to take care of their autistic son and support her husband's candidacies. He cuts off her social networks. She takes a bandaid job to support herself. He wants to sell the house she can no longer afford. With her new friends' help and hard work, she finds her equilibrium and recovers her former job as a local news producer.

Teaming with a whistleblower and an investigator reporter, she searches to find the answers to a conspiracy in city government. Her life is threatened.

Is her former husband, the Mayor of the city, behind the conspiracy and the threats on her life?

232 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 12, 2022

About the author

Sandra K-Horn is a bestselling author known for both fiction and nonfiction works. Writing about strong women has become a passion to encourage women to know their own strength. She has written novels such as Downward Spiral and The Springridge Incident, as well as a nonfiction book titled Undercover: Becoming Street Smart in Central Ohio. She has received an Honorable Mention from the Eric Hoffer Award (2008), was featured in the Ohioana Library Festival (2021), and appeared on Amazon's Bestseller list for True Crime Biographies (2024). and Women at War (2025). She will be the featured author in the show "Ekphrasis" at the Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center in the Fall of 2027.


She has a Substack account, publishing under the name "Oh Hello There! by Sandra KHorn," and an Instagram account under the handle @sandrakhornauthor. You can also reach her at her website, sandrakhorn.net