This is a love story between one who is forgiven much and one who loves much. A woman’s painful search for love and approval begins as a young girl in Rome-occupied Israel. Her repeated failures to please her parents leave her longing for acceptance. She crosses paths with an extraordinary family who offer her the love she has been seeking, albeit short-lived. When they mysteriously disappear, her hope goes with them, and she is left feeling abandoned and rejected. Subsequently, her life’s choices lead her in a downward spiral that culminate in the face-to-face meeting with the lover of her soul…and the forgiver of her sins. Her struggles with unworthiness and guilt are keenly revealed when God’s unconditional love penetrates her heart.
This transforming love of God changes her life forever and proves those who have been forgiven little, love little, but if you have been forgiven much…
Leslie
Dean
Leslie T. Dean has been a registered nurse for forty-one years. She has served as a Behavioral Health Counselor, Psychiatric Nurse Manager, and Pastoral Counselor. Her first novel, Forgiven Much, has experienced continued success in counseling centers and Pregnancy Resource Centers across the country helping women find hope at the foot of the cross. She has counseled victims of abuse, codependency, and abortion for over thirty years.
Through continued study and healing in her own life, she has discovered the plague that intergenerational trauma passes into families. Because of her personal experience in this area, and through her many contacts, she has found that an epidemic number of people have experienced some form of abuse in their childhood. Consequently, they often suffer with poor self-image, depression, substance abuse, relational dysfunction, and worse, the generational passing of the abuse baton. Ms. Dean has dedicated her life to assisting others in untangling this web of deceit and lead them to a place of healing.