Deep in the Heart of Texas: A Memoir by Texas A. Stready

My name is Texas and this is my story.

The daughter of a Southern Baptist pastor, I ran away from home when I was 17. For 28 years I traveled a path that took me to places from which few return. Unhealthy relationships and unbridled lusts corrupted my view of freedom and left me cornered in addiction--financed by crafty manipulation and drug dealing.

My tainted knowledge of love and polluted desire for escape kept me on a treacherous treadmill that continually fed the heartache of those I loved. But, through it all, the One who loved me unconditionally remained.

This is my unvarnished account of the years I spent running and what brought that season to its redeeming end.