Church of Lies

By: Flora Jessop, Paul T. Brown

Narrated by: Eve Bianco

From the Preface:

"My name is Flora Jessop. I've been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and I'd like to think they're right too. If I am a hero, maybe it's because every time I can play a part in saving a child or a woman from a life of servitude and degradation, I'm saving a little piece of me, too.

I was one of 28 children born to my dad and his three wives. Indoctrinated to believe that the outside world was evil, and that I resided among the righteous, I was destined to marry a man chosen for me by the Prophet. I would then live in harmony with my sister-wives, bear many children, and obey and serve my future husband in this life and throughout eternity. But my innocence didn't last long. While still a child, I understood that the church of the righteous was nothing but a church of lies.

When I was eight years old my father sexually molested me for the first time, raping me when I was 12. I tried to kill myself. Beaten, molested, taunted, and abused by family members alleging they only wanted to save my soul became a daily routine, I ran from this abuse more than once in my early teens - even attempting to cross the desert on foot. My family hunted me down. I thought government agencies would provide me safety if I reported my father. Instead, police and social services colluded with the FLDS to return me to my family and I ended up back inside polygamy, right where I started."

Flora goes on from there to tell the dramatic true story of how she ultimately escaped and has been fighting against frustrating obstacles with hard-fought successes in rescuing women and children from the FLDS. It's a story you can't put down.

©2009 Flora Jessop and Paul T. Brown (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

wow...

A very powerful and opening book. I hope lots of people take the time to listen to this book.

Great book, sad and horrible for the women and kids

It’s hard to believe what these women and children are brainwashed into believing and the sick pedophiles that are allowed to getaway with abusing and raping girls, even their own daughters! What a sick world we live in.

interesting story

Volume of the narrator's is highly variable. I don't care for her voice and she gives all of the characters a southern drawl. They're from Utah and Arizona.

Great book, but…

The narration was not good! I feel like the narrator’s inflection was altering what the writer was trying to convey.

nothing godly about polygamy!

I've heard defenders of polygamy say that bad experiences like those described in this book are only because it wasn't being practiced at the right time or being done "correctly." There is no correct way to practice polygamy, polygyny, spiritual wifery, or whatever else they want to call it. There is NOTHING Godly about it!!!