Have you longed for a place of acceptance? People allowing you to be yourself? Forgiven is based on a network of women who have come together, asking little of each other, realizing the past has formed them but the future will release them from the secrets and mistakes. Ellen Anderson is the rock of faith, though her life will be shaken when her daughter is kidnapped. Beatrice, the widow, fi nds life goes on regardless of death or grief. Anne, divorced and alone, struggles full of fear, searching for peace and a way to reunite with her little boy. Harriet Becker has lived with a secret; she considers an unforgiven sin that has caused her to become a recluse from society. When the four women fi nd their lives entwined rather than entangled, they fi nd truth in the old saying, Trouble shared is trouble halved. Ellen's faith becomes their creed. Time may lead me nowhere, though I press on. My faith may break into pieces, but I know within my being, when I falter God is there. Will each woman fi nd peace? Does God have a plan for their lives? Will the friendship, that wonderful network of caring, last when a little girl is kidnapped?

Betty has written for Christian publications and handled her own newspaper column for many years. A desire to present the love of God and His plan of salvation through the pages of Christian fi ction has prompted her interest to write books. Betty remains at home in Dexter, Missouri. May you be blessed in reading Forgiven!