Each and every one of us has a story. Some people’s lives are full of misery. Others are an endless source of
inspiration.
My story begins as lovingly and normally as anyone
else’s. Girl meets boy. Girl loves boy. Boy loves girl. Girl and boy plan to marry and have
children. But that is where my life
diverts toward another path.
At the age of 19, only three months after the birth of my first
child my son’s father was killed in a tragic car accident. My world collapsed around me. While most new mothers are grappling with
Postpartum Depression, I was trying to wrap my head around the fact that my
family was irreparable.
At the tender age of 19, I was engaged to a dead man. My son didn’t have a chance to get to know
the father who worshipped him.
His death was a catalyst for my writing. No longer would I jot down poems about teen
angst or puppy love. My pain produced my
first self-published book, A Diamond in
the Rough.
A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
Diamond was born
and raised in one of Brooklyn’s grittiest neighborhoods yet she has the
potential to do anything she sets her mind to. After the death of her fiancee
only months after the birth of her first child, Diamond’s life spirals out of
control. It seems inevitable when she gets caught up in life altering
situations such as a run-in with a heavy handed pimp, business savvy whores and
eventually being embraced by the porn industry. Diamond tries to
do what many people do and out run her past. The deadliest elements threaten to
destroy any chance of her shining.
It has been 14 years since the death of Damon, Sr. Not a day
goes by that I don’t see him in my son’s honey brown eyes. Or hear him when my son chuckles. I haven’t stopped writing although the pain
has simmered and new love has over taken me.
Long ago buried truths and discomfort are now exorcised on to blank,
brilliant white pages bringing me a sense of peace that only the gift of writing
and God can deliver.
Lena Land Books
