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DaredevilsShawn Vestal

Daredevils

2016308 pages
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3 editions
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1974: Fifteen-year-old Loretta slips out of her bedroom window to meet her "Gentile" boyfriend. This time, however, her strict Mormon parents catch her returning at dawn and quickly arrange for her to marry the upstanding Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids, some not much younger than Loretta herself. Trapped in her role as a "sister wife," Loretta dreams of another, better future, of a world glimpsed in magazines and ads. Her chance comes when Dean uproots the family to Idaho, and she meets Jason, Dean's teenage nephew, who…

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3 editions
  • Other · English · 2017
    Penguin Publishing Group · 9781101979907
  • Other · English · 2016
    ONE · 9780993506208
  • Other · English · 2016
    Penguin Press · 308 pages · 9781101979891
MormonsPolygamyFictionRunaway teenagersTeenage girlsIdaho, fictionFiction, coming of ageArizona, fiction