Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs »

Elissa Wall is a former member of the FLDS church who was forced into marriage at age fourteen. She left the FLDS at age eighteen and she currently resides with her two children and her husband, Lamont.

In this harrowing and spellbinding book, Elissa Wall tells the complete story of her life in the FLDS polygamist sect and how she brought down controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs.

People

“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely. Her descriptions of the polygamous sect’s rigidity are shocking, but what’s most fascinating is the immensely likeable author’s struggle to reconcile her longing for happiness with her terror of it’s consequences.”

Prologue     1
Part 1
A New Mother     7
Growing Up and Keeping Sweet     30
Good Priesthood Children     59
In Light and Truth     74
The Rise of Warren     92
Out of Control     115
Reassignment     134
Preparing for Zion     157
A Revelation Is Made     170
The Celestial Law     190
The Word of the Prophet     209
Man and Wife     228
All Alone     250
Part 2
Survival Begins     279
The Destruction Is Upon Us     301
Death Comes to Short Creek     322
False Prophet     335
Refuge in Canada     351
Nowhere to Run     374
A Pair of Headlights     391
Promise Not to Tell     415
A Story Like Mine     433
Love at Last     460
Choosing My Future     478
Part 3
New Beginnings     499
Coming Forward     525
Captured     542
Facing Warren     552
The Trial Begins     576
The End Is in Sight     603
I Am Free     634
Epilogue     650
Author's Note     663
Acknowledgments     665