Forgiven

The East Tennessee sunset was so beautiful that Michael Bentley, owner of an investing firm, forgets to breathe. Tomorrow, the 7th of October 2002, he will meet a shy girl and again he will forget to breathe when seeing her natural beauty as pure and pristine as twilight dewdrops. Six weeks earlier, Michael believed a most special prayer was answered when he became engaged to a beautiful socialite prominent in his circle of Columbus, Ohio friends.

After a few hours with this beautiful reticent girl, Sommer Rene Rose, his heart is boiling in confusion - is the socialite wrong and Sommer right? In honest candid conversation, her intrinsic qualities are revealed as he acknowledges the error of his first choice. With full surrender to new dreams so beautiful that few would dare to ponder, he truly believed Sommer was the real answer to his prayer.

Temptations in life will happen sure as an apple will fall downward after leaving the tree. While wedding plans were nearing completion, Michael yielded to a temptation so humiliating to his betrothed that she never wanted to see him again.

In a gloomy and cheerless hospital room just before Christmas 2003, Michael Bentley sat in remorse. He assumed full responsibility for an accident Sommer had after fleeing his presence in Tennessee. She was in a comma not expecting to recover.