Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon Girl - Maureen Clark

It is 1975 and, like every young Mormon couple, Jon and Maureen will start their life together with a temple wedding. But first, they must participate in the preparatory Endowment Ceremony which turns out to be full of shocking experiences, such as agreeing to have their throats slit or to be disemboweled if they ever speak of the secret things that happen inside the temple.

In spite of this horrifying start, they go through with their wedding the next day and begin their life together.

Thirty years later, Jon announces he is leaving the Mormon Church, and all that repressed trauma rises up as Maureen examines how those early covenants affected her. She is battling her own lack of faith in a church that is becoming more conservative every day.