Why Did God Make the Tree?

A PATRICK DENNY NOVEL

Something isn’t quite right in Waylingbrooke, New Hampshire.

Something that Dr. Patrick Denny discovers soon after moving to this seemingly quaint New England town. Having abandoned his successful career as a horror novelist to return to his former profession of psychiatry, the doctor has taken a position at Everston Psychiatric Hospital. His unorthodox methods challenge the institution’s rigid reliance on medication as he guides his patients through the labyrinth of their own minds—an insomniac haunted by the town’s looming tower, a schizophrenic who believes he’s living inside one of Patrick’s horror stories, and a catatonic woman who has spent decades lost in the dark forest of her psyche.

In his attempt to untangle the mysteries of their troubled minds, Patrick’s own tormented past begins to bleed into his present, and the macabre storyteller that still dwells within him threatens to emerge. In a world where stories birth stories and reality loses its edges, Patrick must question whether his return to psychiatry offers redemption or signals his final descent into madness.

A masterful exploration of the human psyche, “Why Did God Make the Tree?” weaves together three interconnected tales of psychological suspense, examining how stories shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. With prose as intricate as the minds she explores, Tammy Gregg crafts a narrative that challenges our assumptions about sanity, reality, and the power of the stories we tell ourselves to survive.