One, A Novel

By Cecil Donald Leighton Jr.

As the sequel to True, One continues to unfold the star-crossed romance of the first book, whose theme is self-discovery. In the course of this classic 1980's tale of money, sex, and fast living, set in Los Angeles and cities across Europe, the main character Tom Spotted Tail Augustine Stearns, a Stanford undergraduate, home for Christmas break from his studies in France, finds himself tempted and seduced by all that glitters but is not gold. Despite his sincere faith, repentance, frequenting of the sacraments, and marriage to a brilliant blonde co-ed from Napa Valley, Tom repeatedly falls from grace. Under the seductive power of the world, the flesh, and the devil, Tom is led deeper and deeper into a Dantean woods of melancholic isolation and sin, spiritual correction and suffering, but also, ultimately, unmerited love and redemption. In the completion of his interior journey and life, as both sinner and saint, Tom discovers what it means to be one, in weakness and in strength, in flesh and in spirit, in time and in eternity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F7Q8T8VM
• ISBN13: 9798282541496
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"