The Price I Had to Pay

"Loneliness was a hard pill to swallow, especially when it went hand-in-hand with the public's open dislike of me. Everyone seemed to turn against me. I could see my family and friends fading and distancing themselves from my presence. Information that only my friends and family knew about me was spilling out, and they were nowhere to be found when the time came that I needed their help." Even though Wayne Shatley minds his own business by tending to his farm and raising show birds, he's still a magnet for unwanted attention and jealousy. He lives his life with integrity, but he discovers that everyone around him abides by a different moral code. In the blink of an eye, his life is irrevocably turned upside down. It begins with a scam. His trouble escalates after a local election gone horribly wrong. Before he knows it, he becomes the scapegoat of a huge scheme as he is pitted in the utmost corruption. The Price I Had to Pay is the true story of his ordeal.