Young Margaret Waters' innocent life was turned upside down when she met the mysterious Dr. Miles Deihl. He was a dark wild thing; exuding raw sensuality and emanating an inaudible primal groaning. He was not at all like her childhood beau; the quiet and stable, Nathan Stillman. A tangle of emotions, with unsuspected twists and turns ensues.
There's a price to be paid for the choices we make.
People make mistakes. Whether due to bad judgement or faulty logic, we all falter in our quest for pe
rsonal happiness. Some individuals spend a lifetime attempting to redeem themselves; some don’t care to try. A few succeed; it's impossible for some.
We remember the words of Alexander Pope: "To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
Absolution is an epic novel set in the early 1800's, when the Ohio Territory was first being settled. It's a story of courage, disappointments, love, and broken dreams. It's about the "coming of age" for young pioneers facing the perils of survival in an untamed wilderness. It recounts the fall of the righteous and their eventual absolution.
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