Keep Sweet, by Michele Dominguez Greene

Yet another look at polygamy (why? this is like the killer-tree-trend I had going for a while) in the Southwest US. In this, 14 year old Alva Jane, much like Kyra in The Chosen One, resists marriage to a 50 year old man, and escapes, at the risk of her life. This book, while very similar to The Chosen One, read as weak, compared to the richly layered adult novel The Lonely Polygamist.