Clean Slate

by René Roberts

Take one art curator with a deep, dark secret. Add one journalist, a very suspicious Detective, and a decade of decaying family relations. The result – an explosion of pent-up emotions.

Gabriella returns to her hometown with the ghost of her sordid past breathing down her neck. Despite her intentions to abstain from all forms of pleasure, she finds herself in the arms of Jordan, a newspaper journalist and family friend. Jordan comes with some baggage too – a nosy ex that happens to be a highly successful Detective.

Will Gabriella’s well-kept secret destroy the lives of an entire family and ruin her chances at finding true happiness?

Clean Slate is about mending fences, atonement, and the process of rebuilding relationships in the wake of destruction. It depicts the journey of unconventional families and their individual battles to find harmony and happiness.

318 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 3, 2018

About the author

I am René Roberts. I was born and raised in sunny South Africa, the most beautifully diverse country in the world, but am now spending my mid-life crisis in the Netherlands. I left my forwarding address to the muse and hopes she finds her way to me safely.

My feet are firmly on the ground and my head blissfully in the clouds. I write as an alternative to obsessive compulsive reincarnation – it’s too tiring. Writing allows me to complete multiple lives in just one session without all of the whiplash and DeJa’Vu.