Jonathan West?s problems started when his mother died. Trying to beat a train, she was killed trying to escape her car when it got stuck on the tracks. If she had just stayed in the car, she might have lived, but she got out and tried to run. The car?pushed by the train?crushed her. She made the national news, but that was the beginning of Jonathan?s troubles.Jonathan is a delivery man. A driver for a company that delivers packages and he has a complicated love life. Tonya is supposed to be his girlfriend, but Jonathan secretly loves Carmen, a pretty blonde co-worker at his company. Carmen is married, but not, it seems, happily. That gave Jonathan hope and made time with Tonya more and more tedious. When Carmen, an avid runner, challenges Jonathan to get into shape, their meetings after work to run and swim in a local park?s lake become the focus of his life.Then Jonathan runs into his own train wreck. Viciously attacked with a baseball bat, Jonathan begins hearing a voice. At first he thinks he only imagined it. Maybe just that conscience thing. Talking to him inside his head. As time goes by, Jonathan realizes that the voice is not benign. The voice intends to control him?to force him to do things he doesn?t want to do?or does he?I built My Dreams Around You by Michael Thomason is a thriller about one man?s obsession and the spiral of events that propel an ordinary guy into a world of darkness and murder.