As early 21st century American culture is stripped of its core Western Civilization values and roots, a young woman struggles to find peace and fulfillment while surrounded by a toxic culture. Popular in the University of Chicago's computer science department, Professor Cate Numero has a seemingly wonderful existence replete with a brilliant mind and mesmerizing beauty. Behind her black-and-white world is a secret life haunted by manic phobias, guilt, and shame.
When a colleague is murdered before her very eyes, Cate meets fate when the cold barrel of the assailant's gun is turned on her. The near-death experience is her breaking point.
Psychotherapy and antidepressants offer no reprieve. After hallucinations force Cate to take a sabbatical, music is the only thing that brings her comfort. But it's not enough. Numbed by the trauma, all Cate wants is to feel.
The promise of relief from charismatic neurophysicist Preston Archer is too enticing for Cate to ignore. He needs a computer expert for his research. She needs hope. Instead, the past she fought so hard to suppress rises to the surface.
When Cate's rediscovered optimism and longing are stolen from her, she finds that a world where science and materialism reign won't deliver the peace she seeks.
A modern tale of finding hope in a culture of relativism and lack of absolute truths.
About the Author: Born in Chicago, Tomaszek served as a Vietnam War-era USAF Air Rescue airborne firefighter. He is a commissioned Kentucky colonel and lifetime member of the VFW. A romantic, Tomaszek is a former amateur operatic and musical comedy tenor and has performed in full armor in historical reenactments, riding and shooting from the saddle with the best of them.
Tomaszek employs his immersion into numerous cultures and languages encountered while living in Europe and Asia as well as his experiences within the Fine Arts as inspiration for his novels, giving his stories unique color and spice.
Tomaszek and his family reside in the far northern Illinois suburbs. The family breed alpacas and are active in animal rescue.
