The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

by Daphne Bramham

Book Overview

A riveting, shocking account of the founding and flourishing of the polygamous, fundamentalist Mormon sect in Bountiful, B.C. Winston Blackmore of Bountiful, B.C., says it's God's will that he has twenty-two wives and more than one hundred children. Canada's most outspoken polygamist insists his faith left him no choice but to marry and impregnate nearly a dozen teens, and he has publicly admitted to marrying girls as young as fifteen. Polygamy and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307355888
• ISBN13: 9780307355881
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.