"He said, `Yeah."' 

"`Where?"' she asked. 

"`Probably Virginia."' 

"So Quinn and I will move to Virginia. Virginia is a great state." 

The only low-security federal prison in Virginia is in Petersburg, where former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry once served time. 

On the day of the indictment, the two shared a surreal phone call as a newspaper reporter banged on her door in Charlotte, while the man she refers to as "Johnny" throughout the book called her cell phone to say that he was also being pursued. 

"`I've got helicopters circling my house,' Johnny said." 

New York publishers had said they were not interested in Hunter's book, citing her negative image, so it is instead being released through a Dallas-based boutique publisher, BenBella Books, on June 26. 

Federal prosecutors spent a year prosecuting Edwards, culminating in a six-week trial that ended last month.