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Book Review of The Most Wanted

The Most Wanted
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In the 1990s, a teenager from a small Texas town and a disfunctional family, becomes the bride of a charming, psychopathic killer, a prisoner she met through correspondence. The bride wrote poems for him about what her life might be but it really becomes a nightmare. She married him against the wishes of all around her and became pregnant. Consequently, her mother kicks her out of their home. Meanwhile, her husband, Dillon Thomas LeGrande, 25, manages to break out of jail, join his 15 ye ar old wife, and goes on a killing spree.

Told from two perspectives, that of Arley (Arlington Mowbray LeGrande), the bride, and Annie, an attorney, who represents her in court, the reader reads about the romantic lives of both women and what happens when their lives converge. The relationshop that develops is like that of mother and daughter. Annie protects her from Dillon and fills the gap left by a mother who demonstrated little love. Nevertheless, neither recognize Dillon's persistence to obtain his child.