Bless Me Father FOR YOU Have Sinned - Paperback

by Bruce Lewis (Author)

This is the Large Print Edition of Bless Me Father FOR YOU Have Sinned, a literary-psychological thriller set in Portland, Oregon.

The story was inspired by a real event: the death of the author's father when the author was 12.

Story description:

A lifetime of questions. A lifetime of lies. Now, it's time to settle the score.

Imagine: you're twelve. The world is simple, defined by the unwavering strength of your father. Then, he's gone. Not in a blaze of glory, but in a whisper of "accident," a fall dismissed by indifferent police. But what if it wasn't an accident? What if it was murder, shrouded in the very authority meant to protect?

Fast forward. The boy is now a man, Chuck Grayson, sixty-five years etched onto his soul, the ghost of his father still a raw wound. A name surfaces from the shadows, a name whispered in hushed tones: the man responsible for stealing his father's life. And the revelation is a blasphemy: a Catholic Priest.

Not just any priest. A man cloaked in the sanctity of the Church, a former cop hardened by the streets, now hiding behind the collar. A predator in holy vestments.

Grayson, a lapsed Catholic wrestling with his own mortality-liver cancer gnawing at his insides-finds himself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. The battlefield? The confessional.

Picture it: the hushed darkness, the scent of old wood and incense, the weight of centuries of whispered sins. On one side, Grayson, a man fueled by a lifetime of suppressed rage, his own life slipping away. On the other, the priest, his voice smooth with practiced piety, his eyes betraying the darkness within.

Each confession becomes a tense confrontation, a psychological duel fought in the sacred space of repentance. The very sacrament of reconciliation-the promise of forgiveness-is the only fragile barrier holding back the storm of Grayson's vengeance.

But for Grayson, God is silent. The Church has failed him. There will be no divine intervention, no heavenly absolution. Only he, a man marked by death and driven by a lifetime of grief, can offer his father's killer...salvation. Or damnation.