Literary fiction

A young boy is delivered to Edmonton’s Ross Flats orphanage in the summer of 1952 (an authentic historical setting). The boy does not reveal to staff his name, where he came from, or who his parents are. He demonstrates behaviours that are both compassionate and severely deviant, resulting in his placement at the Southside Detention Centre (an authentic historical setting in Edmonton).

Jesse Carter is a recent graduate with a masters degree in social work From McGill University. He lands a job with the Children’s Aide Society of Alberta where he soon encounters the young boy on Edmonton’s inner streets. Jesse recognizes the severe dissociative symptoms of the child and witnesses his deviant behaviours. Jesse begins to suspect a full blown case of psychogenic fugue. Together He and the boy begin a journey back into the child’s past to gradually uncover who he is, and the events that have so profoundly affected his young character and personality. The journey becomes a terrifying path that changes both their lives forever.