Shattered Dreams

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.