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Is this Truly my Heart’s Desire?

It has taken more than two years for C. A. Dilworth to craft the first sequel to “Desire—sin lies at the door” but what has come out of it is more refined and intriguing than its Maiden Story. Drawn from obscure events of multiple life experiences and an imagination run amuck, this novel will leave you asking for more.
A child is born, David Michael Moore, but is left on the doorstep of his grandmother. But Why? For lack of Love? Lack of Want? What other reason could there be? And just when he is entering adulthood and a stage in his life that he is ready to confront his mother...she dies leaving him with unresolved feelings from unanswered questions.
Harbored anger is challenged by possibilities never considered and visions of what could have been are left tearing at his soul.
"If a parent loves her child, she should find some way of telling him before she leaves this earth, preferably in simple words backed by actions with maybe “I love you” thrown in every once in a while.”
Few things are left untouched as this tale winds through the confines of so many of today’s modern American families leaving only an act of grace to bind together those things that could possibly be.

"I found my mother's diary as I began to rummage through her clutter at her bungalow on the edge of town--her one-room-schoolhouse...I didn’t know my mother. I didn’t know my father. I wasn’t even sure if I knew myself. With every box that was opened in the weeks and months that followed, and with every page that I turned, my mind began to wander further and further from the daydream of a life that had led me up to this point. There was one bundle of papers..."