Heartache & Sin - Charles Soto

Synopsis:
Hard-driving and provocative, this unconventional love story will have audiences talking for weeks after reading. Charles Soto touches at the heart of humanity with this epic tale, tackling the hardships of abortion. Dissecting the tenderest parts of a mother’s being, while destroying a father’s conscience, Heartache and Sin starts where love, hate, murder and church collide. Like all couples, when Steven and Karen Wheaton learn of their pregnancy, they are elated. Active churchgoers with a pointed sense of right and wrong, they hope to instill their values in this new life. When a corrupt clergyman starts to use Karen to promote his own corrupt anti-abortion agenda, Steven finds himself surrounded by questions of morality. As Karen’s pregnancy takes a turn for the worse and she becomes deathly ill, it starts to appear that the only thing that may save her is an abortion. Will Steven be able to save his wife or baby? Which would he choose?


Author Bio:
Charles Soto lives in northern Minnesota with his wife of twenty-one years and his two daughters. His sole purpose in his writing is to incite reaction and make readers think and feel the entire story for themselves by expelling hard-driving emotion in his plots. Continuing to deliver storylines that boil to an explosive conclusion and draw strong reactions, he proves himself a master at the game of love and heartache with his inspiring style of writing. Along with his passion and talents for writing, Charles Soto is also a very talented ceramicist/sculptor. He creates bisque works in the renaissance, fantasy, and Native American styles. His artwork as well as his writing conveys his inner-most desires that fuel his appetite for the arts. His debut novel, Heartache and Sin will soon be followed by, Pride and a Prayer and promises to be just as profound and provocative. www.authorcharlessoto.com or www.charzarts.com


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My Opinion:
Fantastic!
That is my last impression of the book. A wonderfully written story, and for a 400+ read, it went so fast. I got immersed deep in the book and was a little sad when it was over. It did leave me wanting a little more.
The characters were great. Though there is a bad guy in this book. Boy, do you hate him too! The other characters I loved. Especially Karen. Though at times, I wish she'd listened to her husband and not the preacher.
Mary was the one character I connected with. Coming from a former abusive relationship, I empathized with her, praying she gets a " Disney ending".
Definitely a story you talk about with your friends!
(4/5)


~I received a copy from the author. I was not compensated for my opinion.~