Praise for Desert Wives "If Betty Webb had gone undercover and written Desert Wives as a piece of investigative journalism, she"d probably be up for a Pulitzer...." -The New York Times "[An] arresting novel brimming with moral outrage." -Publishers Weekly "Reading Desert Wives is like peering into a microscope at a seething culture of toxic microbes." -Diana Gabaldon, author of The Outlander series Now in its second edition, Betty Webb"s Desert Wives is a startling, real look into the polygamous communities of Northern Arizona.When private detective Lena Jones helps thirteen-year-old Rebecca escape from Purity, a polygamy compound hidden in a desolate area straddling the Utah/Arizona border, she uncovers more than she bargained for. Rebecca"s mother has now been arrested for the murder of Prophet Solomon Royal, Rebecca"s intended husband. So Lena enters Purity masquerading as a polygamist wife to...