"A frank story about conformity and sexuality that still manages to hang on to a good measure of dignity and humor."

- The Boston Sunday Globe

"Very candid . . . a very personal, fascinating look at one woman's struggles."

- Booklist

"Fascinating . . . Secret Ceremonies is an absolutely riveting account of marriage, mysticism, mumbo jumbo, Mormonism, and finally, growth and wonder."

- Bob Shacochis, American Book Award winner, author of Easy in the Islands and Swimming in the Volcano

"Deborah Lake's achievement is the graphic recounting of her intimate history with a professional journalist's dispassionate eye. She's the kind of writer who looks at you squarely and holds the gaze. This unusually frank book is impossible not to gobble up."

- Ron Carlson, author of Plan B for the Middle Class and News of the World

"This book will make waves within the culture because the unspeakable has been spoken... I read it in one sitting."

- Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge

"I wept my way through this book. Deborah Laake describes aspects of Mormon life that have never been given words before, ever...."

- Wendy Hammond, author of The Ghostman and Mormons in Malibu