Why Did I Grow So Cold?

by James Kirkpatrick Davis

Thirty-year-old Brian Cahill is an accountant who lives in Chicago. He grew up in an orphanage, witnessed horrifying combat in Vietnam, and suffers from periodic post-traumatic stress and severe emotional disorders. He hates the parents who deserted him, even though he has never met them. Brian receives a photo album from his dying mother. He finds a picture of his mother and father in front of a boarding house somewhere. As Brian vacations in Stamford Bridge, Michigan, he recognizes the boarding house where the picture of his parents was taken thirty years earlier. But soon hatred and mistaken identity lead to horrifying tragedy.

222 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2005