Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception, and Double Lives – Tina Alexis Allen

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Hiding Out
by Tina Alexis Allen
Paperback | September 16, 2014

What happens when secrecy becomes the language of love—and truth threatens to unravel everything?

In Hiding Out, Tina Alexis Allen delivers a raw, fearless memoir about growing up queer in the shadow of devotion, shame, and double lives. The youngest of thirteen children in a devout Catholic family in suburban Washington, D.C., Allen was raised under the authority of her father, Sir John—an English orphan, former soldier, and Catholic servant so dutiful he was knighted by the Pope. As Tina came of age, she learned early how to live in secrecy, especially when it came to her sexuality.

When Sir John brings Tina into his successful Catholic travel agency as a protégée, father and daughter forge an intense, private bond rooted in mutual confession and concealment. Together, they push boundaries, nurture parallel identities, and construct a world in which their truest selves can exist—at least behind closed doors. But what begins as intimacy and trust spirals into nights soaked in sex, drugs, alcohol, and lies.

As Tina digs deeper into her father’s life, she uncovers a man torn apart by faith and desire, whose rigid devotion has led him down dangerous and destructive paths. What emerges is a powerful reckoning with inherited shame, loyalty, and the devastating cost of living in hiding.

Brutally honest and emotionally gripping, Hiding Out is a memoir of self-discovery and survival—about the ties that bind families, the lies that tighten those bonds, and the liberating force of truth when secrecy can no longer hold.

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