Sister Wives
- Hardcover
- New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. 474pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black paper over boards, with light soiling to the text block edges. Endpapers very subtly yellowed. Text block square and tight. Pages clean and bright. In the illustrated dust jacket, with minor wear. The author's first novel. Cleo Jones is an ex-Mormon who grew up in Salt Lake City before moving to Berkeley, California.
From the dust jacket-
"The time is 1856. Haunted by a final vow to her parents to see her fragile sister Connie married in the Mormon tradition, sixteen-year-old Caledonia Spencer gives her blessing when Elder Harley Crick proposes to take Connie as one of his three wives. But life in the Harley household becomes a nightmare as Callie becomes entangled in a web of rivalry among the three wives and discovers her own attraction to her sister's husband- and his obvious desire for her.
From the dust jacket-
"The time is 1856. Haunted by a final vow to her parents to see her fragile sister Connie married in the Mormon tradition, sixteen-year-old Caledonia Spencer gives her blessing when Elder Harley Crick proposes to take Connie as one of his three wives. But life in the Harley household becomes a nightmare as Callie becomes entangled in a web of rivalry among the three wives and discovers her own attraction to her sister's husband- and his obvious desire for her.