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Cold Promise
Cold Promise
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Cold Promise is a riveting novel about heart surgeon Owen Lincoln and his desperate flight from early on-set Alzheimer’s, murder, and family greed. Packing a powerful emotional punch, it marks the arrival of a strong new voice in fiction, and will take you by surprise in the most wonderful ways.
In the face of cruelty, this mesmerizing, tender exploration of a tragic disease is sweeping, brilliant, and funny. Cold Promise takes you away from isolation and unwitting apathy into a moving tale of courage. Built around the power of love to overcome the darkness that lives in us all, it is precisely the kind of haunting chemistry that’s associated with a G. Gray McVicker novel.
After a Silver Mine fire in Northern Idaho kills his father and 75 other miners, young Owen Lincoln, is dogged with the thought that he caused the calamity. He wrestles with the guilt of knowing he might be responsible for killing his own father.
The day he and his mother prepare to leave Idaho for a new life in Chicago, he makes a promise. Standing in front of the sealed mine, where his father is entombed, he promises to return and confess his part in the fire. For twenty plus years he embraces Chicago. His relationships with a demanding socialite wife, only interested in his money, and a freeloading son into the mob for a cool hundred thousand, ply his will.
As the twenty first century begins, the good life starts to tarnish. The promise he made to his father has reached its shelf life and begins to sour him. Owens life becomes rife with pain and anguish. To make matters worse, his son pushes hard for his inheritance, to the point of threatening his father.
It’s hard to pinpoint when the Jaguar begins to devour his mind. A major goof in surgery threatening the life of a patient triggers for him the beginning of a downward slide. Defiling all attempts to link him to the horrific disease, he battles for his career and his life. Somewhere along the way he senses he is losing the fight. This tough, determined, Welshman, once renowned and respected, is now being tossed aside. It settles his indecision. He must go back to Idaho, react to his promise, and disappear into the countryside, to escape the son out to murder him, and hide the dementia plaguing him.
In the face of cruelty, this mesmerizing, tender exploration of a tragic disease is sweeping, brilliant, and funny. Cold Promise takes you away from isolation and unwitting apathy into a moving tale of courage. Built around the power of love to overcome the darkness that lives in us all, it is precisely the kind of haunting chemistry that’s associated with a G. Gray McVicker novel.
After a Silver Mine fire in Northern Idaho kills his father and 75 other miners, young Owen Lincoln, is dogged with the thought that he caused the calamity. He wrestles with the guilt of knowing he might be responsible for killing his own father.
The day he and his mother prepare to leave Idaho for a new life in Chicago, he makes a promise. Standing in front of the sealed mine, where his father is entombed, he promises to return and confess his part in the fire. For twenty plus years he embraces Chicago. His relationships with a demanding socialite wife, only interested in his money, and a freeloading son into the mob for a cool hundred thousand, ply his will.
As the twenty first century begins, the good life starts to tarnish. The promise he made to his father has reached its shelf life and begins to sour him. Owens life becomes rife with pain and anguish. To make matters worse, his son pushes hard for his inheritance, to the point of threatening his father.
It’s hard to pinpoint when the Jaguar begins to devour his mind. A major goof in surgery threatening the life of a patient triggers for him the beginning of a downward slide. Defiling all attempts to link him to the horrific disease, he battles for his career and his life. Somewhere along the way he senses he is losing the fight. This tough, determined, Welshman, once renowned and respected, is now being tossed aside. It settles his indecision. He must go back to Idaho, react to his promise, and disappear into the countryside, to escape the son out to murder him, and hide the dementia plaguing him.
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