Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

Irene Spencer did as she felt God
commanded in marrying her
brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming
his second wife. When the
government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous
Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona,
Irene and her family fled to
Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.
They lived in squalor and desolate
conditions in the Mexican desert
with Verlan's six brothers, one sister,
and numerous wives and children.
Readers will be appalled and
astonished, but most amazingly,
greatly inspired. Irene's dramatic
story reveals how far religion can
be stretched and abused and how one woman and her
children found their way out, into truth and redemption.

• Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement
• SOUND OF GRAVEL
• The Polygamist's Daughter: A Memoir
• Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy
• The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
• His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy
• Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy
• The 4 O'Clock Murders
• Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith