What do you do when the price of perfection is your
freedom and everything you’ve ever believed in is a lie?
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Book I of the Sinful Series
Sinful Purity
THE SYNOPSIS
Mary Elizabeth has been a ward of Mary Immaculate Queen Orphanage since she was four. Not remembering anything of her life before her arrival, she dreams of her own identity. Being a willful child, she was punished more than she was praised. In an institution where perfection and conformity is the ultimate goal, Mary Elizabeth yearns to break free of her childhood prison and experience life outside the orphanage’s imposing iron gates. What she’s about to find out, however, is that life is never that simple and that even though we try to let go of our past, sometimes our past won’t let go of us. Attending college for the first time, believing she is finally free Mary Elizabeth is at long last experiencing life and all it has to offer. Liz it seems was never meant to escape her stifling upbringing. Haunted by her past and hunted by shrouded figures bent on malevolence she fights to hold on to her new life and everything she now holds dear. Learning that freedom is nothing more than an elaborate illusion and everything comes with a price.
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
This story began as a dream and a simple question: what happens when the life you’ve always known isn’t the truth? Mary Elizabeth’s journey grew from that spark into a story about identity, resilience, and the complicated path toward freedom. One about discovering your voice, claiming your choices, and realizing that the past may shape us — but it doesn’t have to define us.
Writing Sinful Purity was an exercise in facing the shadows so many of us try to keep at bay. It’s a story about the fragile line between safety and control, and how the trauma we escape often follows us disguised as the very security we crave. I wanted to capture that quiet turning point — the moment when you start to question everything you've been told about yourself and the world around you. This book is for those who know that freedom isn't just about escaping where you are — it's about surviving who you become along the way.
– K.A. STANDEN