Cost of Sin

<B>A piercing historical coming-of-age novel that exposes how silence, faith, and family shape a young girl's understanding of truth. <I>The Cost of Sin</I> delivers the emotional force of a classic American saga with a sharp, modern eye.</B><BR><BR><B>A family torn apart by faith. A child's fierce love that refuses to break.</B><BR><BR>In 1905 Utah, five-year-old Myrtle's world shatters when her grandfather, a stern Mormon bishop, declares her parents' marriage sinfulbecause it wasn't sealed in the temple. When violence erupts and tragedy strikes, Myrtle and her siblings are scattered across a unforgiving landscape of rigid doctrine and desperate survival.<BR><BR>Decades later, Luke arrives in Salt Lake City to meet his fiance Sally's grandmother, Myrt, whose stories reveal a childhood marked by loss, resilience, and quiet rebellion. Through Myrt's unflinching memoriesof a father's fatal shame, a mother's mysterious death, and the siblings torn from her armsLuke discovers a family legacy built on sacrifice and the devastating price of living outside the lines of faith.<BR><BR><B>The </B><I><B>Cost of Sin</B></I><B> is a biographical historical saga of love tested by doctrine, innocence confronting cruelty, and the enduring power of storytelling to heal the deepest wounds.</B>