Living Beyond Nightfall

Living Beyond Nightfall - Troy Buckner's real life journey to wholeness...

The world is about to read a true story filled with pain, disappointment and one woman's emotional fight for her life and that of her four wonderful sons. Buckner's story will take you to the very depths of despair and show you peace beyond understanding. It will reveal how her belief in the betterment of her community and love for her culture left her struggling to survive through a felonious alleged embezzlement charge which left her determine to put the fragments of her life back together again. Buckner's desire for penning this book is to ensure that the world never forgets the mayhem committed within our own communities by people who claimed their undying love for us.

Buckner is force to cling to the most powerful vestige of her childhood--the wisdom she had been endowed with by her father and her southern community. She was raised by a compassionate father who instilled greatness in her life by examples of his own broken struggles of growing up in the Deep South during slavery. Someone once said, 'home isn't just a place where you live... it's a state of the heart'... However, growing up in the Deep South meant so much more for Buckner. Lake Providence may have held a very small place on the map, but it held a bigger place in her heart and soul - something that she have connected to her entire life. Her community believed in hard work and integrity - most of all having the courage not to give up - not to quit. She was encouraged by her community to pursue an education during a time when no one cared enough to see that black youths had a professional career.

Buckner's story will give you hope, and it will confirm the power of faith. Her story will take you through many levels of brokenness - gleaning from her journey will lift you up and help you not only survive but transcend suffering, injustice, and loss. Displaying her extraordinary strength and endurance, Living Beyond Nightfall is a brilliant display of individual resilience.

About the author - Troy Buckner, the diva, the accountant who cocooned into a novelist and playwright, hails from the South- Lake Providence, LA. Buckner graduated from Southern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Minor in Business Law and Administration. Troy's academic accomplishment catapults her into corporate America where she encounters injustice at its worst. As a Southern woman, she was taught the art of empowered living. It is no wonder that Troy who was reared by her firm, yet warm, strong, yet sensitive father has willed her affinity, love, life and affection to her children and those close to her.

A songwriter/lyricist and literary writer, Ms. Buckner released her first 300 page novel, entitled "A Bird In Flight" in July 2007. Her NAACP endorsed novel is based on the power of self-expression with truth, integrity and character on display.

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