Search - Desert Wives (Lena Jones, Bk 2)

Great read; much info re lives of Mormon women captured into polygamy and unable to escape. Kidnapping and murder add to the suspense.

Great book about Polygamy. Hard to believe that the law allows that kind of thing to go on! I felt very sorry for the women and children living on the compounds.

A private investigator is hired to rescue a 13 year old girl from a polygamist sect. The girl's mother is charged with murder when the 68 year old leader of the compound is found dead.

Driven by moral outrage and personal demons, Arizona private investigator Lena Jones enters the brutal world of polygamy when she is hired by a frantic mother desperate to rescue her thirteen year old daughter form a polygamist sect on the Utah border. The girl I s to be married to the compound's sixty-eight year old leader, Soloman Royal, in a trade brokered by her father in exchange for two sixteen year old.
The snatch goes off without a hitch, until lena stumbles over the dead body of Brother Royal, and the girl's mother is charged with his murder.To find the real killer,Lena goes undercover as the new "wife" of an inside sympathizer and infiltrates the dark reality of Purity.