The Confessional, The Sins Within

This compelling story includes confrontations, high emotions, escalating crimes, forbidden romance, and immediacy is the genre for this novel. The setting is Coastal Maine, a hamlet of secrecy and bizarre happenings. Paul, the protagonist, entered the priesthood with the idea he could save souls, but could he save his own soul? His heterosexual past experiences hinders his church requirement of celibacy. Catholicism has its demanding rules for which Paul's libido becomes a problem, and struggles against the nature of man. His eye for beautiful women triggers his forbidding rule put onto him by the church. Conflict after conflict puts himself against him and God. Paul wonders if he has made the right choice. He and his secretary becomes prime suspect in a murder. This small Maine island and its people becomes a beehive of hate, sex and an infectious life style and it's not the way life should be, at least not for a Catholic priest.

Author: Eugene P. Elcik

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: May 24, 2017

Number of Pages: 226 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1546496629

ISBN-13: 9781546496625