Desperate Measures

Desperate Measures hauntingly retries the grisly 1857 Aiken murders, an ongoing stain on Utah history. In doing so, Thomas F. Rogers weaves faith, fear, and fallen family history into a tale about the universal human struggle to account for a past that sometimes challenges us.
— W. Paul Reeve, author of Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood

Thomas Rogers, the father of modern Latter-day Saint drama, writes a novel for the ages: rooted in one of the church’s darkest episodes (the Aiken massacre of 1857), Rogers engages with rare theological profundity questions of judgment and reconciliation. Most provocatively, he challenges the facile construction of God as referee, and reveals a possible eternity where we have to continue the exacting work of resolving those dilemmas that fracture conscience and society alike.
—Terryl Givens, author of The God Who Weeps