Cold Comfort

At age 19, John Colucci was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity and committed to a mental institution. Eight years later, he’s released to begin a new life. Someone wants to make sure he never gets the chance to live it. John's list of enemies is vast. Even his own brother-in-law is determined to see him re-institutionalized. As John struggles to navigate his independence, he finds reasons to live. It isn't long, however, before the nightmare begins anew, shattering the peace and forcing John to fight for his life and what’s left of his sanity.

E. W. Abernathy has worked in the legal profession for over twenty-five years. Her favorite pastimes are writing, reading, cooking, and listening to heavy metal music. She was the recipient of The Tarheel Writers' Roundtable First Place for Best Short Story in 1978 at the age of 17 and has been writing fiction since the third grade. She is currently working on the sequel to Cold Comfort. Her other works in progress are a historical novel set in the antebellum South, and a dystopian/futuristic novel dealing with the subject of genetic engineering in humans.