โ Scribed by D. A. Bartley
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In the wake of Utahโs stringent laws against plural marriage, the growth of the Mormon Church has slowed. Young men are abandoning the Church, leaving their female counterparts unmarried and childless. Now, the church is about to lose one more memberโฆand it may be due to murder.
Detective Abish โAbbieโ Taylor returned to the mountain town of Pleasant View, Utah, hoping for a quiet life. But that hope dissipates like a dream when she wakes to an unsettling phone call. Arriving at the scene of a fatal car accident, she discovers that the victim was one of the most beloved leaders of the Churchโand an old family friend.
Abbie is skeptical when her father insists someone murdered his friend, but in an attempt to patch up their relationship, she takes a few days off from her job as the sole detective in the police department, and heads to the Colonia Juรกrez, a former LDS colony in Mexico. There, she uncovers a plan to โsealโ young women to church leaders in temple ceremonies, so the women can give birth and the children can be adopted by Mormon families in the United States. But Abbie knows too well that bringing secrets to light can be deadly. Is that why her fatherโs friend died?
When she returns to the States, some members of the LDS community certainly donโt seem happy that Abbie knows what she knows. Abbie realizes with a jolt that her investigation could cost her father his job. Who is the murderous mastermind of this secret plot? Is it Port, the young Second Counselor to the President of the Church? Bowen, the charismatic Church spokesperson? Does the โaccidentโ victimโs widow know more than sheโs told police? Time is running out for Abbie to save her fatherโs jobโand her own lifeโas dark forces close in, and the outlook for Pleasant View turns decidedly unpleasant.
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