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**Finalist for the Western Writers of America's 2020 Spur Awards for Historical Novel**
**Finalist for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards for Novel**
"Compelling historical fiction.... Part love story, part religious explication, part mystery....A journey you won't forget."—Houston Chronicle
In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits...
**Finalist for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards for Novel**
"Compelling historical fiction.... Part love story, part religious explication, part mystery....A journey you won't forget."—Houston Chronicle
In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits...
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A story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families, the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered....
4) Shadow Ranch
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Children of the light volume 1
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Perpedit Publishing, Ink
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Riders of the Purple Sage volume 1
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English
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Jane ran her cattle business and bossed the cowboys who rode the expanse of purple sage around her prosperous Utah ranch. Then she dared disobey the Mormons who ordered her to marry grim, brutal Elder Tull. Now her stock was being stampeded and her men disappearing. Then the mysterious gunslinger called Lassiter rode into town. Reprint.
7) Black widows
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"Against the wishes of his family and the laws of the elders of the Mormon church, Blake Nelson has adopted the old polygamous ways and lives alone with his three wives, miles from anywhere, in rural Utah. Blake and his wives kept to themselves--and kept most folks out. That is, until his dead body is discovered. Black Widows is told in the three voices of Blake's very different wives, who hate each other, and who sometimes hated their husband. Blake's...
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Riders of the Purple Sage volume 2
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English
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Ten years later, the wall to Surprise Valley is down, and Jane Withersteen must choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
9) Saints
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This historical novel tells of the early days of the Mormon Church, and the trek of "Saints" to what is now Salt Lake City. One of the Saints was an English woman named Dinah who is convinced that her religious destiny lies in America. The book follows her travels from Manchester to Utah, ending in her spiritual new life in a new land.
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Little, Brown and Company
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2013.
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English
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Fleeing with her two daughters who have never seen the world outside of their polygamous compound, a desperate woman crashes her car in rural Oklahoma, where she finds unlikely help from a farmer grieving the loss of his wife.
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterhood, and survival by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. 1856. Three women-once strangers-come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and...
12) Daredevils
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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...
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