Belle O the Waters. This item is unavailable.Belle O the Waters

"Belle Waters is about to celebrate her fourteenth birthday, and she is terrified. The fear of marriage looms large for her, and every other girl who was born into the Mormon settlement of Salt Lake in the 1850s. She knows it is her duty to marry and bring Heavenly Father's children into the world, but she's not interested in tying the knot with anyone‚"‚€‚"especially not the Prophet, an old man with a number of wives and counting. But when the US Army invades Salt Lake intent on arresting the Prophet, Belle soon realizes that the possibility of becoming a child bride is only the beginning in a series

of disastrous threats.

"Raima Larter is a writer from Arlington, Virginia. Her work has appeared in Gargoyle, Writers' Journal, Mulberry Fork Review, Chantwood Magazine and others. Her short story collection, The Gate of Heaven and Other Story

Worlds, was published in 2012. This is her first novel. Prior to

devoting herself to full-time writing, Larter was a college chemistry professor and government scientist."