'If this is love, for God's sake, Verlan, don't love me one minute longer!'
Verlan LeBaron - a high-ranking member of a sect of Mormonism based on its earlier foundations, including polygamy - took Irene as his second wife, the first being her half-sister. This began her travel through the fringes of a cult that defies traditional American culture and Christian morality. In blunt, direct language she illustrates the ordeal of being a polygamist's wife (LeBaron eventually 'married' ten women, fathering 58 children, thirteen by Irene), the heartbreak of loving a man entrenched in an aberrant theological system, and the memories she still cherishes from those times. Irene Spencer lays bare her own soul to communicate clearly the reality of this threat to Christianity, America, and those helpless victims caught up in the system of lies and deceit as revealed in the book.
