Dean Hughes is a Latter-day Saint author. Dean Hughes was born in Ogden, Utah in 1943, and grew up in very humble circumstances. He started telling people in junior high that he was going to be a writer, but he did not become serious until he took a creative writing class in high school. During his senior year in high school he started his first novel. Wikipedia
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Before the Dawn by Dean Hughes When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he is joking. www.deanhughes.net