Leaving the Bones Behind

Oliver Mathews is in the fight of his life, racing to preserve his life’s legacy as the fog of Alzheimer’s invades his mind. His son Kevin is fighting too, against research powerhouse Daichi Cybernetics and its questionable medical ethics. Their stories interweave with a variety of others, including:

a guilt-ridden brother and care giving sister struggling with their father’s dementia;
a U.S. senator’s psychopathic daughter;
a widower searching to give his child what she wants most—memories of her mother;
longtime friends and colleagues at odds over the ethical dilemmas presented by their medical research.

All of these characters are connected by the power of memory—and the devastating effects of its loss. From the deadly implications of powerful new technology to the poignant efforts of a man feeling himself slip away from the world he knows and loves, Leaving the Bones Behind is a thought-provoking novel, based in science yet centered in heartfelt humanity.

Leaving the Bones Behind is set in the Northwest in the state of Montana, with threads leading the reader to Seattle, to Long Island, to Sparta, Tennessee, to the Alagnak River in Alaska, to Japan, and Singapore.