Title: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Author: M.L. Steinbrunn
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publication Date: March 11, 2014
Tour Host: Dreams Come True Promotions
How long would you wait to be with the one that you love? How much of yourself would you hide in order to keep them?
Brooks knows the moment he meets Vivian that he will do whatever it takes to protect her, even if it means leaving her. Running from his past, he spends the next decade trying to forget the shattered heart that he left behind.
Is there any betrayal worth the cost? Are there some sins that cannot be forgiven?
After a lifetime of rebuilding the walls guarding her heart, Vivian confronts the harsh reality that some fortresses are not meant to stand. Winding through a gray fog of disappointment and deceit, she must conquer her deepest fears to accept the love she believes she is too unworthy to have.
As the paths of these two battered hearts cross once more, together they seek redemption for their sins. However, when the secrets of their pasts come knocking on their door, forgiveness and love will be tested, and they will be forced to answer the question: “When the lies run out, will the truth finally set you free?”
Forgive Us Our Trespasses is an adult contemporary novel and is not intended for younger readers due to mature content.
What can I say about this
book? Just from looking at the title and book cover I was intrigued.
"Forgive Us Our Trespasses" sounds so bleak, right? Well I can tell
you that this book will surprise you.
The
main character, Vivian, loses her father to a tragic accident when she
is five years old, and that leaves her guarded about getting close to
anyone for any reason. ML Steinbrunn had me crying in the prologue. THE
PROLOGUE!! And I can say just how rare that is for me... to cry over a
book for anything, much less during the first pages of the book.
Steinbrunn's telling of Viv's loss of her father as a child... *tears*.
As
she enters college she is determined to leave the past behind and
re-invent herself in another town across the state from home. She has
three roommates with whom she forms a close friendship immediately. And
then she meets Brooks. Oh, Brooks.... the playboy. For some reason they
are both attracted to one another and can not deny it. He is everything
she knows she must avoid, but can't help but want. She is everything he
never thought he wanted and thinks he doesn't deserve. Sounds cliche,
right? Maybe it is, but what I really liked about this book is that you
don't have the typical responses to it. She doesn't run, and he doesn't
treat her like crap. After some misunderstandings, Viv and Brooks
finally face their feelings for each other and begin a great
relationship. And can I say just how much I love them? The take their
past issues and actually talk about it. They both work through their
issues with what happened to their fathers together. They connection
they have is rare, and they are stronger together than they are apart.
Until something happens that causes Brooks to break Vivian's heart... as
well as his own And can I say I was pissed as hell! It was one of
those "ON NO SHE DID'NT!" moments that made you want to hit something. It
broke my heart.
Skip
forward ten years later.... Viv is married....and comfortable. Until
tragedy strikes and brings Brooks back into her life... and let me say:
THANK.THE.BLOODY.COCONUTS! Old connections are still there and things
feelings are stronger than before... but will the past and it's secrets
tear them apart, or bring them together? You'll have to read it for
yourself because - I'll never tell! ;)
And M.L. Steinbrunn..... I want more of Lakin and Cam.... ;)
Colorado native M.L. Steinbrunn is new to the professional literary community, but has been in love with the world of fictional characters and plot twists since she was a child. Writing short stories and reading anything she could get her hands on, it could be argued that her hobby borders on an obsession.
She works full-time as a middle school and high school educator and coach in rural Colorado where she and her husband are raising their three young children. Through education she has enjoyed guiding others on their paths and helping students build their stories. After countless evenings of discussing story ideas, it was her husband who encouraged her to follow her own path and publish her first novel.
She is currently working on her debut romance novel Forgive Us Our Trespasses, which is will be released in March of 2014. It will be the first in a series of intertwined stand-alone novels.
In her free time M.L. enjoys travelling, Amazon one-clicking, watching movies, chauffeuring her children to their one and half million activities, and people watching.
She would like to add a big thank you to everyone that has been overwhelmingly supportive of this incredibly scary yet exciting journey.
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