Tina Alexis Allen is the youngest of thirteen children brought up by a saintly mother and a strict Catholic father in the 1980s suburbs of Maryland. Her father, Sir John, was a formidable, charming, British-born man with the distinct honor of being knighted by the Pope. He ran a successful travel agency that catered to tours of the Holy Land and the Vatican that embodied the values of a good Catholic family. Unlike her devout father, Tina was a smart-mouthed high school basketball prodigy who kept her lesbian identity a secret from her family. When her father discovered her secret at age eighteen, he shocked her with his response: he, too, was gay.

Sir John became a confidante for Allen, and her to him, but what began as a tender moment of trust and truth quickly spiraled out of control. Together, Allen and her father made pilgrimages to gay discos, experimented with drugs, and engaged in sex with their respective partners in public places, keeping their family in the dark all the while.

Outside of their wild escapades, Sir John invited Allen to be his heir apparent at the travel agency. Under his wing, Allen grew suspicious of his frequent business trips, his multiple passports, briefcases of cash, and cache of illegal documents, and uncovered the stunning double-life of the father she thought she knew, secrets and all.

Secrets of a Holy Father is the unbelievable true story of self-discovery, family, secrets, and the power of the truth.

About the Author
Tina Alexis Allen is a GLAAD Award-nominated actress, producer, screenwriter, and playwright. She appeared on the WGN America series Outsiders, and has costarred in several feature films. Allen is also the cofounder of Gina Raphaela Jewelry's mission-driven No More Violence collection. She lives in New York and Los Angeles.

Reviews
"I can fully recommend it, I read it cover to cover, the writing was excellent and was completely engrossed; the story is incredibly compelling." -- Megyn Kelly, Megyn Kelly TODAY
"I love this book-brave, brutal truths." -- Rosie O'Donnell
"[Hiding Out] brims with drunkenness, sexuality and urgency...She showcases excellent writing skills, packaging grit and grime into glistening prose. Her twisted mystery, family woes of the nastiest kind and multilayered love stories spin together to form a "can't-put-down" read in Hiding Out." -- Washington Post
"[Tina Alexis Allen] doesn't hold back in her memoir Hiding Out." -- Teen Vogue
"Tina Alexis Allen was tired of living in the shadows...She is hoping [Hiding Out] will encourage others to come forward and speak out against being abused." -- FoxNews.com
"Scandalous, resonant, and refreshingly free of self-justification, Hiding Out is a compelling tale of sin and service, concealment and disclosure, hedonism and righteousness...an in-the-moment dose of the exhilarating tragedy of being alive." -- Mark Riebling, author of Church of Spies
"Allen's life - once dominated by cruelty and abuse - takes a deep dive into decadence, fueled by cocaine, champagne and Sir John's never-ending supply of mysterious money. Hiding Out is about a lot of lies, and some are the ones we tell ourselves." -- New York Daily News
"Brutally honest and shamelessly truthful." -- Fr. Richard Rohr, author of Falling Upward
"Hiding Out is a whiplash read for its drama and intrigue, but it's also an openhearted exploration of history, hypocrisy, and the fact that we may never know the answers to the questions that have shaped our lives." -- Shondaland.com
"This is not a book for the faint of heart. Tina scrubs her soul clean within its pages, uncovering and exposing the web of lies her young adulthood had become...[she] succeeds on all levels with this memoir you definitely will not forget." -- Talk Nerdy With Us
"A writer candidly confronts her personal truth in her quest for transformation, transcendence, and redemption." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Deeply felt" -- Booklist
"Perhaps it's Allen's background as an actress and playwright that gives Hiding Out, at turns jaw-dropping and spellbinding, its dramatic tension and spot-on dialogue. Her memoir is as compulsive to read as it is heartbreaking. And that's the truth." -- Washington Independent Review of Books



Book Information
ISBN 9780062565679
Author Tina Alexis Allen
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins US
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Weight(grams) 270g