By Blood Betrayed : My Life with Terry Nichols Book

When Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal building was bombed, Lana Padilla reacted with the same shock and horror most Americans experienced. When she found out that her ex-husband, Terry Nichols, was suspected of planning the act of terrorism, her whole world caved in. Despite their divorce, Padilla and Nichols had remained close. They shared a past -- and a son, Josh. She had a bad feeling about the way Nichols was behaving. She questioned some of his actions and was frightened by others, but she never dreamed it would come to this. She had even let Josh live with Nichols and his best friend, Timothy McVeigh.

In By Blood Betrayed, Padilla comes forward with perhaps the only first-person account of one of the accused bombers. She is a wife striving to understand the charges brought against the man she once loved. She is a mother struggling to do what is best for a child who idolizes his accused father. Now, what Padilla and Josh might know could affect Terry Nichols' trial. Here is the exclusive, heart-wrenching story of Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh told by a woman who knows -- a woman too close to the headlines.