Innocence turns into compulsion. Tom Raines, a shy boy from a small Southern town, grows up in a fundamentalist church filled with hatred, hellfire and secrets. Something goes very wrong. At age fifteen, he is seduced by an older woman who shatters his concept of sex and love to the point where sex mistakenly becomes love. All he wants in life is for someone to love him unconditionally. Tom finds himself in many relationships, searching for a woman who gives to him what he can't seem to find within himself, often within the confines of marriage. This search for love proves to be his undoing as he becomes his worst enemy. Tom becomes trapped in a life of never ending lust and sex. Now he must overcome his guilt by making better choices about his role in his failed marriages and relationships or end up lonely, lost, or dead.
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Strange Wonderful Bird Press
Release
March 27, 2017
In The Shadow Of Sin: The Confessions of a Sex Addict
Innocence turns into compulsion. Tom Raines, a shy boy from a small Southern town, grows up in a fundamentalist church filled with hatred, hellfire and secrets. Something goes very wrong. At age fifteen, he is seduced by an older woman who shatters his concept of sex and love to the point where sex mistakenly becomes love. All he wants in life is for someone to love him unconditionally. Tom finds himself in many relationships, searching for a woman who gives to him what he can't seem to find within himself, often within the confines of marriage. This search for love proves to be his undoing as he becomes his worst enemy. Tom becomes trapped in a life of never ending lust and sex. Now he must overcome his guilt by making better choices about his role in his failed marriages and relationships or end up lonely, lost, or dead.