Forgive and Live: Rwanda

About the Book

Cheyenne La Tour, aka “Shy,” is a young successful African American computer engineer in New York City hearing the whisper “there must be something more.” She decides to leave a lucrative career with M.H. Duran, Inc. and join a small group of like-minded visionaries who bring the Internet to Rwanda, Africa. Fiber Optic cable is scheduled for installation which began in 1993 offering a quantum leap in communication to the people in Africa. Shy is driven by her desire to give back while building profitable relationships with Rwanda and African Americans in the USA. She is assured that the Rwandan government and people want this alliance to work, but when war breaks out the ancient hatred amng the HUtus am Tutsi intensifies. Shy’s vulnerable personality leads her blindly into situations where she must shed the simple cloak of innocence and survive a harsh reality she never could have imagined. “Forgive and Live” is an historical fiction novel offering a factual-based account of the centuries long struggle between two ethnic groups living in Rwanda,

About the Author

Wendy Stanley Mills was born in Brooklyn, NY in a world that graphically showed the misdeeds of man on the screen in homes for the first time. Her parents Nellie and Thomas Stanley shared their worldly experiences through travel and education. Their activities directly impacted Wendy’s insight as an African American through the Council of African Affairs, the Jack and Jill club and their community church. This heightened her curiosity for a deeper understanding of how connected we all are and how our thoughts, speech, and actions affect one another. In 1960 she won a United Nations drawing contest. Her drawing portrayed children from around the world wearing their native costumes and holding hands encircling the earth, a common symbol seen today. In 1963, she marched in Washington, D.C. for civil rights which led her to study African and African American subjects at Howard University and institutions throughout Harlem and three countries in Africa. In 1994, when the war in Rwanda broke out, an unthinkable genocide, something powerful and compelling stirred within the author to pay attention, follow the timeline, and record the details as this horrific scene unfolded in real time. Once the war was over, Wendy knew she must tell the story through historical fiction. The writing process took Wendy through pain, fear and doubt, but she pressed on and found the strength, courage and faith to complete “Forgive and Live,” her first novel, a story that needed to be told. Wendy’s mission is peace, forgiveness and to calm greed without stopping ambition and the evolution in mankind.