Sydney West by David B. McKinsey

Sydney West finds a new beginning in the college town of Colorado Springs. The only catch – his memory has been wiped clean of everything but the uncanny ability to read people and suspicion it’s all part of a bigger plan.

With the help of an unwitting English major who claims to have met him just before his memory begins, they explore Sydney’s interactions with others, as well as within himself. Society assumption and baseline sanity rendered meaningless, the further they investigate, the further reality bends.

When does knowing yourself become worse than ignorance? Is it when the oddly relevant hallucinations start, or maybe the feeling he’s forgotten something horrible? Science and supernatural begin to blur, but no one is talking. By the end, he’ll have to decide if who he once was still matters, and if he’s still dangerous.

This novel contains themes of traumatic events, mental health, paranoia and unreality. Reader discretion is advised.