Clean Slate

By Denise Carol Holmes

Clean Slate is the account of one woman's plight after a miraculous rescue from death, which saves her life in more ways than one.

This story portrays a preacher's kid who went astray and started living her life contrary to all she learned from her parents. She ran away from home at the age of sixteen, in pursuit of immoral living and unnatural desires. Twenty years later, her memories were erased after an accident, and her life began again with a clean slate.

She lived with amnesia for two years, unaware of the sins from her past that she must face one day. When her memory returns, will she continue her new life with her slate wiped clean of her past, or will she revert to her former life and resume a marriage spawned by the Devil himself?

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: May 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781449749460

Denise Carol Holmes

Denise Carol Holmes was born and raised in New York City. She enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1979, and her tour of duty included living in Karlsruhe, Germany. She worked for the Department Of Defense until becoming employed by the NYS Department Of Corrections in 1990. She and her husband live on Staten Island, and are members of a non-denominational church. This is her second fiction work.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 05/24/2012

Contents

Epigraph

Dedications

Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

About The Author

A Creative, Contemporary, Adventure Story that touches the themes of Sexual Orientation and Christian Values.

It leaves you wanting more….

Cleveland S. Thornhill

Protestant Chaplain

Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

Epigraph

I was glad when they said unto me;

let us go into the house of the Lord.

Psalm 122:1 KJV

One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see

John 9:25 KJV

Dedications

To my wonderful husband Anthony, who is blessed by the Lord.

To the both of my sons, David Lorenzo and Michael Anthony, who are the fruits of my loins, and blessed men of God. I’m always praying for the day, they both decide to be all that the Lord has called them to be.

To my only sibling, my sister Angelina, whose soul is always on my prayer list.

I give an ode to my Deceased parents, Eva Lee Shaw and David Holmes, both of whom I miss, and will love always.

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I give an honor to God, from whom this story comes from. This book was written from the Divine Inspiration of God.

I’d like to thank, my Awesome and Beautiful Pastor, Lillian Samuel of Christian Faith Power Center Church, who first encouraged me to put my ideas on paper.

Also, I’d like to thank, Reverend Cleveland S. Thornhill, who is the Protestant Chaplain at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Who listened, as I recounted the story, the Lord had blessed me with, and for his encouraging words.

Chapter One

Mr. and Mrs. Rains are pastors of a church. They were blessed with three children during their marriage. The oldest being a daughter named Ellen, who has been married to a woman named Porshia for ten years.

Of course, according to the Holy Bible, this lifestyle and marriage is not accepted by the pastors. Ellen was reared in church along with her two siblings, a sister named Beverly and the youngest, a brother named Daniel. The children all sang in the choir and everyone agreed that Ellen’s voice was blessed by God.

At fifteen, Ellen realized she was attracted to females at church and school, so she decided she wouldn’t attend church anymore. When her parents learned about her preference, they sat Ellen down and told her she was on her way to hell if she didn’t change. Ellen moved out of her parents’ home after her sixteenth birthday and moved in with an older girl who was nineteen. Mr. and Mrs. Rains have not seen or heard from Ellen since that day, and have been constantly praying for Ellen’s soul for the past twenty years.

Porshia’s family, on the other hand, has