"Sweeney does a great job with telling complete story full of likable characters like Connell and Tucker. She makes them real showing the emotional toll of each of these characters while making it at times light. On the other side, she showed the disturb side of a psychopath in the single mindness of the object of his desire."--Blood Moon review.
Jameson studied his patient, dismayed by the pity he felt.
A good-looking kid—no, not a kid, not any longer. He’d been admitted when he was nineteen; now he was twenty-eight. A man now. A young man in his prime.
What Jameson’s twenty-year-old daughter would call a hottie. A hunk.
Blue eyes briefly lit with fury, once again settling into apathy. He’d originally had a crew cut but no one dared get near him with shears or razor so they imply let his hair grow. Blond hair hanging in an untidy ponytail between his shoulder blades, matching the scraggly sand-colored beard.
Tests said his IQ was 146. Gifted range. A pity. Tragedy really.
Ben Reed, Jameson thought, should be bequeathing those good looks to his children and using that high IQ to save the world. Instead, he was wasting away in a cell in the criminal ward of a private mental hospital, held captive by a deep-seated psychosis showing no sign of relinquishing its hold.
The Night He Came Back
Toni V. Sweeney
https://www.amazon.com/Night-He-Came-Back.../dp/B08YWYY1YK/