Emma Smith, in her own words, admits the creation of a hoax with her husband Joseph Smith, Jr. She details how two ambitious and creative young people concocted a lie that lead to a series of lies that created the Book of Mormon and led to the establishment of a religion, The Later Day Saints. She bares her heart and soul, confessing to her complicity not only in writing of the Book of Mormon but her knowledge and embracing the taking of other woman as plural wives of her husband, the prophet. Historically correct but a work of fiction it is an engrossing revelation and confession that but for being invention could be true.