Merle Evans met her future husband, Jack, when he visited the orphanage where she lived. He had been raised in an orphanage, too, and they seemed to have much in common. When she turned 18 they got married. Everyone said he was such an agreeable man, but Merle soon found that for all his good works, there was a dark side to him that he kept hidden from the public. Merle prayed that God would show her a way out of her emotionally abusive marriage. The ungodly answer came to her in church. Did she dare take control of her own destiny? She started out by changing her name from Merlie to Merle....