title: The Beautiful Wife Book and Prayer Journal Bundle
author:  Sandy Ralya 
description: Sandy Ralya is the founder and director of Beautiful Womanhood and speaks to hundreds of women each year at MOPS groups, womens retreats, and church leadership conferences across the country and in Canada. Sandy and her husband, Tom, have been married since 1980 and have three grown children and and growing number of grandchildren. Sandy bases her ministry near Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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  His  
  Only  
  Wife
  
  
  
  
  
  _a novel by_
  
  
  Peace Adzo Medie
  
  
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  ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL 2020
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my grandmother,  
  Madam Juliana Mansa Tsekumah
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  [One](../Text/chapter01.xhtml)
  
  
  [Two](../Text/chapter02.xhtml)
  
  
  [Three](../Text/chapter03.xhtml)
  
  
  [Four](../Text/chapter04.xhtml)
  
  
  [Five](../Text/chapter05.xhtml)
  
  
  [Six](../Text/chapter06.xhtml)
  
  
  [Seven](../Text/chapter07.xhtml)
  
  
  [Eight](../Text/chapter08.xhtml)
  
  
  [Nine](../Text/chapter09.xhtml)
  
  
  [Ten](../Text/chapter10.xhtml)
  
  
  [Eleven](../Text/chapter11.xhtml)
  
  
  [Twelve](../Text/chapter12.xhtml)
  
  
  [Thirteen](../Text/chapter13.xhtml)
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](../Text/acknowledgments.xhtml)
  
  
  [About the Author](../Text/author.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # One
  
  
  **E** likem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding. The
  ceremony was held on the third Saturday in January in the rectangular
  courtyard of my Uncle Pious’s house, which was bordered by two-ro