Have you ever heard that those who don't learn from their past will live to repeat it? This is a story about Jessie, a teen in search for Christian values, although he has little education of such virtues. His struggle to find those virtues is strained when in competition with human flaws. He confuses lust for love in a teen world lacking in moral supervision, and on a stage of a community driven on competition and the success of their own. The challenges he will face create a faith in him that will surpass the sin in his life, but it comes at a price with the many relationships he encounters. He will rise to the top of his throne in a football world against great odds, and will be crowned king of his land with the help of the girl already ordained by the town. In a violent world of sexual intrigue, he will find a lover obsessed with him, and a belief that her witchcraft could afford him the ultimate pleasures. He would be tested through faith in handling a self-proclaimed witch and a small kingdom, which makes him their hero, when all he ever wanted was what he couldn't have, the girl that seemed as much an angel as the other witch. His journey would start in the cold murky waters of the Cowhouse Creek, and he would have to learn from his past, or risk everything repeating it.

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A Good Man's Sin

By Dee Kelly

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Copyright � 2009 Dee Kelly
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ISBN: 978-1-4389-9088-0

Chapter 1: ESCAPE FROM DARKNESS................................3Chapter 2: URBANIZATION INTO A RURAL WORLD.....................8Chapter 3: LIFE AMONG PEASANTS.................................27Chapter 4: UNLUCKY NUMBER 13...................................55Chapter 5: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION...........................70Chapter 6: THE STEPS OF ROYALTY................................79Chapter 7: THE CORONATION......................................90Chapter 8: THE HOMERIC AGE.....................................93Chapter 9: THE WITCH IN ALL OF US..............................107Chapter 10: REINFORCEMENTS.....................................125Chapter 11: TRAIL OF TEARS.....................................139Chapter 12: THE ROMAN ORGY.....................................153Chapter 13: HEIRS TO THE THRONE................................171Chapter 14: THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE..............................207Chapter 15: JESSY'S ANGELS.....................................233Chapter 16: THE PLAGUE SPREADS.................................259Chapter 17: THE HAREM..........................................266Chapter 18: A FAMILY RULE......................................287Chapter 19: THE SULTAN'S PALACE................................293Chapter 20: SPARTAN SOCIETY....................................310Chapter 21: THE MENTOR.........................................314Chapter 22: BLINDED WITH SCIENCE...............................323Chapter 23: VISIONS OF A WITCH'S DAUGHTER......................330Chapter 24: THE BEGINNING OF THE END...........................339

Chapter One

ESCAPE FROM DARKNESS

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, an you must not touch it, or you will die.'"
"You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. GENESIS 3:1-7

Dusk was settling on a cold evening in the hill country of a small Texas town. A car came flying over the hill that overlooked the old community center towards the Cowhouse Creek in the fall of 1972. It was a deep creek and always seemed to have water even in the driest of Texas summers. Jessie was a young freshman that had just moved from the big Metropolitan city of Dallas/Fort Worth to this hill country town of only 312 people. He was walking toward the bridge after a long practice. He was not sure why he was walking in that direction, he was just trying to get some space away from the upper class boys, and that was when he saw the car pop up over the hill out of control.
It had rained a lot that week as a cold front moved in and the temperatures had dropped out of the 80s and into the 40s. The car began skidding and Jessie jumped out of the path of the bridge, but the car never made it across. The red Mustang spun and shot off the side of the bridge, plunging into the creek below. Jessie was shocked as he recognized the car. It was Ricky's, a classmate, only fifteen and without a driver's license. Jessie heard the loud squeal of the car, and a noisy splash into the creek. He could see the car sinking quickly as Ricky struggled to get out through the window. He hollered to Ricky as the car went out of sight into the murky waters of the Cowhouse Creek. Ricky was in panic and was screaming unlike any 5'10" thick-built farm boy would sound. He sounded like a frightened girl. Jessie ran down the mud and wet grass to the edge of the creek to help Ricky. He was under more control since he saw Ricky was alive and not in danger, but as he got to the edge, Nikki Gail, the only freshman girl in the class emerged screaming.
She was freezing and gasping for air in the water as she flailed her arms about to stay afloat. Jessie passed up Ricky who was seeking his hand for support to pull him out, and he dove into the water without thinking in order to get to Nikki Gail. The water stung him like he had dove into a hornet's nest. It was numbing cold, and he could feel the air go out of his body as his body sunk into the water. He swam as fast as he could toward Nikki as Ricky pulled himself to safety shivering on the edge of the bank relieved to be out of the freezing cold water, but still in shock of the flight from the bridge.
Jessie was a good swimmer, as he had grown up in a single parent home where his mother left him all day during the summers at the pool where she wouldn't have to deal with him. He grabbed Nikki and hauled her in pulling her toward the shore. Once she had gotten her breath and was no longer choking on mouthfuls of water, she began to scream again. She gagged and told Jessie that Nancy Lou was still in the car.
Nancy Lou was the same age as Jessie, but her birthday fell where she was in a grade below them. Nancy Lou was the most beautiful girl in the school, and one he had fell in love with "at first sight" when he started at the tiny country school. Of course, no one knew this but Jessie and his daily journal he had kept since moving from the city.
Jessie was losing his breath and was fighting the stinging pain of the cold water crushing against his body as he pulled Nikki Gail to the shallow water. He told her she could make it from there and to get to the shore, and he went back into the deep water, despite fearing for his own life while still numb from the pain. He had to find Nancy Lou. Nikki Gail shivered and cried as she stood on the bank of the creek and yelled for Jessie to find her best friend.
Ricky had run up the hill to look for help. Jessie went under and the water was black as night. He could not see his hand in front of his face. It was almost dark outside, yet there was some light, however, under the water it was pitch black. He could not hold his breath much longer, nor endure the pain of the cold water tearing at his skin. The deeper he went, the colder and more painful it became. He felt for the car, and fought to keep the flow of the current from pushing him off course from where he thought the car went down. Luckily, the current took him to the car, and he could feel the window Ricky and Nikki Gail must have gotten through. This seemed like an eternity of time as his lungs were about to explode, and he began swallowing the cold water as he fought to find the feel of a young girl's body. As he swam inside the dark water and felt Nancy Lou trapped to the passenger side seat belt, he fought to pull her free, but didn't seem to move her. He felt like giving up, and all of this was happening in seconds, but seemed a lifetime to him. As thoughts passed through in his mind, he thought he was going to drown while trying to save a girl that was probably already dead, and he was about to let go and give up.
He heard a voice and felt a pull of his arm. At first he thought Nancy Lou was conscious, but the voice...

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