Transgression

by Christy Marie Kent

Allie, a newly out trans woman, slips into a secret double a woman during the week in Chicago, a husband and father on weekends in Madison. She meets a man who seems to accept her. When he wants more than she can give, she looks for help from a flamboyant black gay man who works as a top-notch cybersecurity expert by day and performs as a drag queen by night. She’ll need all his help, and more from her wife and daughter, because her stalker will stop at nothing to have her all to himself—and what he wants is worse than anything she could have imagined. "Christy Marie Kent’s novel Transgression is a slow-drip blend of calculated paranoia, panoramic commentary, and witty introspection, guided by a narrator eager to merge, however unlikely, two worlds fighting for supremacy. Twists abound and betrayal is afoot in this tale of intrigue, as each character tries to answer the universal what does it mean to be human, and what lengths will humans travel to make it so."—Samuel E. Cole, samuel-cole.com

423 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 18, 2019

About the author

Christy Marie Kent was born in Mississippi at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Every couple of years, her parents moved around the south, averaging a new state every two years, yet, wherever they went, she found them.

After college, with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s in mathematics, her day job as an actuary moved her further and further north. Now she finds herself living in the frozen tundra of Minnesota with her husband, two sons, and a cat who begs to return to a warmer climate.

Nevertheless, she thinks the Twin Cities are the ideal environment to pursue her second career as a writer, storyteller, and college instructor. She loves Minnesota, and the cat will just have to suck it up and grow a thicker coat ... don’tcha know.

Be sure to catch Kent’s upcoming storytelling performances and other appearances around the Twin Cities.