Bringing Mary Grace Home (ePub)

Born on a plantation in South Georgia, Mary Grace Sudduth graduates from the Medical College of Georgia. She is accepted to do her residency in Utah. There she meets and falls in love with Heber Smith, a dermatologist. Her marriage causes some consternation with her parents. Eventually, she finds out her husband is a polygamist, Try as she might she cannot accept polygamy. Then Heber announces he is going to take a fifth wife, the daughter of Mary Graces best friend. Mary Grace kills Heber to save the daughter. Then Mary Grace kills two other polygamist men. Knowing Mary Grace killed his son, Hyrum Smith arranges for Mary Grace to go to a polygamist colony in the high mountains of Mexico. There Hyrum can and does kill Mary Grace. Her parents try to find her in Utah but to no avail. They hire Theo Reed and Aiden O'Brien. The hunt gets both the FBI and the Mexican Federal Police involved and together they find the colony as well as scandalous behaviour by the polygamists. A big raid is planned and the bad people involved in the schemes are brought to justice. Mary Grace had a love interest at the colony, Brad Nelson, a soldier returned from the middle east with PTSD so bad the colony was the only safe place for him. He nad mary Grace fall in love but he helps with her murder. Mary Grace's body is found and returned to the plantation. Burned in his capture brad is hospitalized and terribly disfigured. Mary Grace's parents take him in to live and work on the plantation