It isn't always four walls and a roof that make a home.
This suspense novel follows the rescue and rehabilitation of a victim in such a home.
Living with the trees, birds, and sunny nature at a botanical garden in Melbourne, Australia, Patto didn't need to remember anything of his past. Saved from death, he was accepted into the gardens.
Others in the city see more in this well-dressed old man. Fascination and love tug at the heart of Milanda, an elite psychiatrist. She takes on the cause to discover a release from Patto's onset dementia.
Orisis, a newspaper reporter better known as Grille for her ability to get answers, knows of a hit gone wrong in the botanical garden two years previously by uniformed police officers.
Paths cross in the botanical garden with questions asked, and famous Melbourne buildings provide meeting places for unlocking the past of Patto, Milanda, and Orisis.
As Patto's true identity is revealed, Milanda helps find ways of rejuvenation for his traumatised brain and memory function.
It takes the skill of a returned Afghanistan war hero with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who saved Patto from death, to infiltrate and use his espionage training to locate secrets buried within a police command building.
The answers from the past may not suit the future.
About The Author: Desmond B. O'Neill now lives on the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland, Australia. The area is known for its stories of pioneers, tin and gold mining, old railway lines, kangaroos that climb trees, and forests filled with stinging trees that can kill. Retired, the author volunteers with the local information centre to aid tourists.
