Irving Wallace liked to write what were, for his day, very racy -- and very profitable -- novels. So it's natural that he was attracted to the story of Ann Eliza Webb Dee Young Denning, the serially married onetime polygamous wife of Brigham Young, and that he tended to play up the same kinds of things that he emphasized in his more obviously fictional books.At least Ann Eliza comes across, in Wallace's recounting, as somewhat less perfect (and just a bit more believably real) than she does in her own exposé/memoirs, which were based upon her profitable run as a somewhat titillating paid lecturer in Victorian America.Incidentally, the book was never "banned" in the Mormon Church, contrary to the deliciously sinister folklore passed on by the previous reviewer. The Mormon Church has no list of "prohibited books."