Tanya Orr – författare

In a world where decorum, duty, privacy, and family ties were of the utmost importance, it was sometimes made difficult for the innocence and timidity of a young woman such as Valencia Dupree to carry a strong voice. In an age where strength and position were thought to be safer in the hands of men, Valencia found a way from within her own self to be counted among the bearers of truth and justice. Although she could not grasp the entirety of it in life, she discovered a way to make her voice heard even in death. In life Valencia found only confusion, pain, and sorrow. However, in death she found acceptance, peace, and love. In the land of the living, life ends when death enters the room; but in the world of Valencia Dupree, death was just the beginning.

Sometimes life is like a head-on collision; it can hit you when you least expect it. Then after you crash, you're left lying in the street all broken and shattered with pieces of your heart and soul thrown here and there. Then just when you think that absolutely nothing can save you, love shows up like a flatbed truck. It lowers itself down to where you are; it lifts you up and then carefully carries you away to a safe place where you can be put back together again. There is an old saying which says, "e;In life, strangers are just friends we haven't met yet."e; In the case of two strangers Penelope Pride and Judith Presley, that saying proved to be true. Because on the most horrific day of both their lives, love rolled in like a flatbed truck, and without permission, it began weaving together its collective threads intertwining their two lives together forever by the hand of grace, the finger of mercy, and the heart of love.