Former Things Forgotten

By Thomas Michael Trezise

Description:

Moonshine makes Tessa Gibbs’s father mean. Getting religion makes him cruel and judgmental.
Red-headed and determined Tessa is desperate to escape him, his God, and her home in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. When a college scholarship provides the key to a new life, Tessa leaves the mountains but finds herself unfulfilled and always reaching for something beyond.
Created for a kingdom of which she has no earthly memory, Tessa doesn’t know she was part of a failed rebellion against God in heaven and sent to be born on fallen earth. Will she continue to choose her own way and resist all efforts to bring her back to the Kingdom? An intense battle wages to return her soul to God …and may require an ultimate sacrifice.
This intriguing and unforgettable story of love at the intersection of heaven and earth, where relationships are eternal and hard choices determine destinies, examines the questions, answers, and consequences of life lived for self or for God.

Book Takeaway:

No one is beyond the redemptive grace and love of Christ.

Why the author wrote this book:

I never intended to write a novel. As I sat in church, however, the basic plot to the novel appeared in my brain fully developed. I tried to shake it, but eventually God made clear to me that I was to write this book to provide an easily accessed fictional vehicle to enable people who may not read theology to find the questions they can ask of God and for others how to witness about their faith, and how not to do so.