Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed by Warren Jeffs. Always seeking to be an obedient Priesthood girl, in her teens she became the nineteenth wife of her people's prophet: 85-year-old Rulon Jeffs,...
I've read Escape, Under the Banner of Heaven and a few others about fundamentalists and I have to say this one was the best for its detail and complete story of the fall out and raid on the Texas ranch. The story is heartbreaking, but also gives hope for the victims and some semblance of peace knowing that these cruel monsters went to prison. A wonderful, sad, and accurate account of this tragic sect of people.
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