PublishAmerica is proud to announce the recent release of Dr. James E. Shaw's new book: Girl Sinner, Lady Saint.

Here's what the author says about the book:

“At the onset of doctoral research I was conducting on girls and boys serving time in state prisons, because they had committed acts of homicide and murder, an official with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told me I was the only person in the country being given the green light to engage in such research. I spent four years inside the prisons and, upon my graduation from the Claremont Graduate University (California), Phi Delta Kappa gave me its “Best Doctoral Dissertation” award for that year.

Girl Sinner, Lady Saint is a novel based on true events. Its main character, Candela McQueen, is a composite of young persons at a co-ed (male and female) state youth prison that served as one of my research sites. Candela gets her life back together in prison and emerges as a 25-year old adult parolee to become lead singer of the Hip-Hop group Jezebel, and an international mega-celebrity worth millions of dollars.

Candela’s fan base, the Great Dame Fan Club, is enormous. A first-class diva, Candela's thrilling and powerful story is an odyssey from love, trust, and betrayal, to transformation, forgiveness and redemption. When Atlas January, her lover in prison, suddenly shows up, Candela instantly knows that the dark, unforgiving past she survived is a real and present threat.

Atlas feels betrayed, shut out, alone. He holds Candela responsible, since she got paroled from prison four years sooner than he. And now, over a decade later, she has oceans of money and a mansion, and gets splashy stories in Variety and top rankings on Billboard’s pop music charts. Why should only one of them have a golden and free life on the “outs”, when, from inside prison, they jointly planned their lives and shared their love, their hopes, their dreams? Atlas executes his criminal plan. Candela must struggle to survive and save herself and everyone and everything precious to her. Facing one obstacle after another, she falls on the mercy of friends, learns again to trust true love, and re-connects with her spiritual roots for the strength she needs and the redemption she hopes for in this deadly cat-and-mouse game.”