Alex

For six months, Ian Colmes has mourned the death of his son, Alex. Feeling that moving on with his life would be a fundamental betrayal of his lost child, Ian turns his back on everything to be alone with his pain. His performance at work collapses; his wife leaves him. Just as he begins to imagine moving on, Alex returns: smiling, laughing, and playing old games with his father. But is Ian's son truly reaching out to him from beyond the grave? Or has Ian's grief finally driven him to madness? As Ian struggles with these questions, Alex grows ever more insistent, ultimately forcing Ian into a life-and-death choice that will culminate in his personal redemption - or destruction. About the Author Adam J Nicolai lives near Minneapolis, MN with his wife, Joy, and their two children, Isaac and Rydia. He is a life-long nerd, game lover, author, Star Wars fan, Dungeon Master, and amateur game designer, as well as a former policy debate coach. He is currently a Project Manager for a major medical insurance company. He started writing in elementary school, creating Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style books while he was supposed to be listening in class. His creative expressions widened to include video game design; he filled countless additional notebooks with expansive maps, dialog trees, loot lists, game stats, and mechanics. When he got older he was known to occasionally draft his younger cousin into play-testing, and authored three rule sets for role-playing games (which his gaming peers readily play-tested, in role-playing campaigns that lasted for 5 years or more). He attended high school at Park Center Senior High, where he had the distinct privilege of being in Brad Olson and Sue Hein's Humanities class, which fostered his love of creative writing and planted a seed that would sprout many years later. He married his wife, Joy, in 1997. She was seventeen. They promptly moved cross-country together to Washington, DC. Nine months later they decided DC sucked, and moved back to Minnesota, where they have lived happily ever since. Adam self-published his first novel, Alex, in November, 2011 after becoming disillusioned with the traditional publishing industry. You will hear more from him. Thrillers,Suspense,Fiction