Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love & Porn

The world's #1 porn star strips down about life, love, and everything in between.

Tera Patrick wasn't always Tera Patrick. Once upon a time she was a gangly, teenaged bookworm named Linda Ann Hopkins, obsessed with serial killers and Marilyn Monroe and determined to make men all over the world one day desire her. And she succeeded: Today she sits atop the porn world and runs her own multimillion-dollar empire.

Sinner Takes All is a sexy and deeply personal memoir in which Tera bares all about baring all. Tera discusses leaving home as a teen to work as an international fashion model, losing her virginity at age fourteen to a man twice her age, working as a nurse at a senior citizen's home, her on- and off-screen sexual escapades, and the emotional obstacles that she's had to overcome, including a strained relationship with her mother, deadbeat boyfriends, and a suicide attempt that led to a stint in a locked-down psych ward.
An honest and naked look at a one-of-a-kind life, Sinner Takes All is a riveting memoir of the making of a modern sex goddess.

Tera Patrick is a retired adult film star and spokesmodel. She has been featured on the covers of Playboy, Maxim, and Penthouse magazines, and wrote the ＂Ask Tera＂ advice column in FHM magazine for five years. Patrick has made many television appearances, including spots on Chelsea Lately, Carson Daly, Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Howard Stern, MSNBC, and Fox News. She lives in Los Angeles.

Carrie Borzillo is an author, journalist, and model. Born in Connecticut, Borzillo graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a degree in journalism and has written about music for the likes of Billboard, Spin, Rolling Stone, and Alternative Press. Her work has also appeared in People, E! Online, Entertainment Weekly, Us Weekly, and more. She is the author of Cherry Bomb and coauthor of Sinner Takes All. She lives in Los Angeles.