WILD GRACE

A Memoir of Sex Addiction, Survival, and Grace

By Stacy Grace James

COMING IN NOVEMBER 2026

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About the Book

Wild Grace is the story of how I tried to construct a life out of childhood trauma and dysfunction without so much as a hammer.

I spent decades trying to outrun myself. I became skilled at surviving — which wasn't the same as living. The strategies that protected me as a child became the very behaviors that almost destroyed me as an adult.

I searched for rescue through sexual relationships, multiple marriages, and alcohol. Each attempt to find safety created more pain, but I couldn't stop. At forty years old, I finally asked the question that changed everything: Could I be a sex addict?

Through recovery, I discovered that healing requires brutal self-honesty and a hell of a lot of courage. For more than twenty years, I have walked beside other women struggling with sex addiction — witnessing unimaginable heartbreak and the miracle of watching lives transform.

Wild Grace is told with ruthless honesty and humor. It's about finding grace in unlikely places, and creating hope for every woman who comes behind me.

Addiction & Recovery Childhood Trauma Survival Love & Marriage Healing Forgiveness Hope Women in Recovery

What's Inside

A childhood full of contradictions — moments of love and moments of intense fear
Marriage at fifteen, and four more husbands after that
A career in law enforcement as one of the few women on the force
A werewolf attack, a six-mile trek uphill in a blizzard, and a life full of unlikely survival
The question that changed everything: Could I be a sex addict?
Fighting for a seat in recovery rooms full of men who didn't want her there
Over twenty years helping other women find their way out of the same cycle
A profound encounter with forgiveness that released decades of pain

Praise for Wild Grace

"It's about finding grace in unlikely places. It's about creating hope for every woman who comes behind me."

Available in paperback, Kindle, and audio — November 2026.

About the Author

I walked into my first Twelve Step meeting for recovering sex addicts more than twenty years ago. I was the only woman. That wasn't new to me. As a police officer in the 1980s and 1990s, I was used to being an unwanted distraction.

I fought for my seat in the rooms of recovery alongside some men who didn't want me there. But the men who believed I'd earned my title as a sex addict helped save my life. Over more than twenty years, I have supported over a thousand women in recovery, and I continue to show up for my sponsees, as well as the growing lineage of women we've helped through a weekly recovery meeting that reaches from Hawaii to New York.

Wild Grace is my first memoir. I now live in Virginia with my fifth husband. We've been married for twenty-two years … in a row. That, in and of itself, is a testament to the power of recovery.

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