The Tainted Lamb

In the sweltering heat of 1980s Texas, faith is money, and Adam Smith is king.

To the world, he is a beloved televangelist with a perfect wife, a perfect mansion, and a flock that worships the ground he walks on. But behind the cameras lies something darker.

Lee Smith, Adam's only child, is the family's most carefully guarded secret: born intersex, paraded on television as a "miracle baby," and raised under her father's iron grip. Forbidden to choose an identity, forbidden to love, forbidden to live, Lee grows up in a house where purity is preached, and sin is beaten into the flesh.

But when Lee turns eighteen, cracks form in Adam's empire. A forbidden relationship leads her into a world her father warned her about: rodeos, ranch hands, backroads, and the arms of a man who gives her freedom, independence and a whole different way of thinking.

Each chapter descends through another circle of hell, dragging Lee from innocence to blood-stained freedom. From courtroom battles to backroom secrets, from betrayal to rebirth, Lee must decide if she is cursed to remain her father 's perfect lamb ... or if she can break free and claim a life that is finally her own.