Tom ~ Paperback ~ Stephen L. Bryant

Born out of wedlock into unimaginable sorrow, Tom Tabor suffers the constant pangs of humiliation and hopelessness in rural Ironton, Ohio. The only love he will ever know begins with the seven-year-old daughter of the local preacher. That purest of love ends before he reaches manhood and has already committed four of his six murders. Surrounded by evil and the darkness of his childhood, Thomas Tabor continues to fall deeper into a life of bitter loss, unspeakable pain, and the ten mortal sins he believes can never be forgotten or forgiven. Tina Marie, Tom's childhood love and now wife of the Kansas governor, appears after thirty-five years and attempts to save the soul of the little boy who once showed her his secret place in the woods-that place that holds both memories of innocent love and true wickedness. In the telling of Thomas Tabor's life, you will find heartache, disdain, untold misery, and the real evil that can engulf man. Yet in the end, you might also find hope, forgiveness and grace. Journey down this dark path with Tom as he recalls his painful existence from his cell block on death row.