A shocking tale of secrets, guilt, and clerical child abuse.
“God has made you special, but I will show you how to have an extraordinary life. Show you true love, as God intended for our kind.”
It’s 1978. Blackburn Hamlet is a typical suburban village in eastern Ontario. In this vibrant Catholic community, life revolves around family and church. Then the safe comfort of both is destroyed by the arrival of a predator priest.
When charismatic Father Sweet invites his new favourite altar boy on a camping trip, the boy’s parents insist he go. Trapped in the woods, the boy struggles to evade the priest’s sexual advances. But Father Sweet forces him to make an impossible choice.
Twenty-five years later, he is lost, broken, and angry. His father’s death reveals secrets that spur the man to relive his own past. Desiring justice, in need of healing, he discovers, in a daring rescue mission, a way to achieve both.
“God has made you special, but I will show you how to have an extraordinary life. Show you true love, as God intended for our kind.”
It’s 1978. Blackburn Hamlet is a typical suburban village in eastern Ontario. In this vibrant Catholic community, life revolves around family and church. Then the safe comfort of both is destroyed by the arrival of a predator priest.
When charismatic Father Sweet invites his new favourite altar boy on a camping trip, the boy’s parents insist he go. Trapped in the woods, the boy struggles to evade the priest’s sexual advances. But Father Sweet forces him to make an impossible choice.
Twenty-five years later, he is lost, broken, and angry. His father’s death reveals secrets that spur the man to relive his own past. Desiring justice, in need of healing, he discovers, in a daring rescue mission, a way to achieve both.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781459743977 1459743962
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.M36245
- LCCN Item number
- F38 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (326 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240073 (OCoLC)1080210240 (CaOOCEL)479803
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- author’s note 7
- epigraph 11
- part one 13
- 1 15
- 2 18
- 3 26
- 4 29
- 5 32
- 6 34
- 7 40
- 8 46
- 9 49
- 10 52
- 11 55
- 12 60
- 13 63
- 14 67
- 15 74
- 16 82
- 17 87
- 18 94
- 19 96
- 20 102
- 21 105
- 22 108
- 23 113
- 24 115
- 25 119
- 26 125
- 27 128
- 28 139
- 29 140
- 30 144
- part two 147
- 1 149
- 2 152
- 3 155
- 4 161
- 5 163
- 6 167
- 7 172
- 8 175
- 9 182
- 10 187
- 11 192
- 12 201
- 13 211
- 14 213
- 15 222
- 16 226
- 17 231
- 18 235
- 19 242
- 20 245
- 21 247
- 22 251
- 23 259
- 24 263
- 25 269
- 26 274
- 27 283
- 28 292
- 29 298
- 30 301
- five months later 311
- 1 313
- 2 315
- 3 321
- Acknowledgements 327
- Book Credits 330
