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“I was jolted awake during the night of February 12, 2011, by a commanding feeling of urgency to pray for my dad. There in the darkness of my room God revealed to me my dad was going to die – but I was not told how soon or by what means his life would end. In the midst of that midnight prayer, I was also asked a question: “Would you be thankful no matter what?” The following day my dear father, Junior Taylor, was brutally murdered in his home in Tennessee, which was then set on fire to cover up the crime. That question would both haunt and challenge me to my very core. It would become unshakable from the events that were to take place along the vile journey I was called upon to take.

Two and a half years later, inside the Coffee County Courthouse, the end of this life-altering journey came into sight as I stood face-to-face with the man who so gruesomely stole my father’s life. It was there where I miraculously saw forgiveness take form and hover over the murderer as God spoke to him through me.”

“The Final Word” is an intricately woven, deeply personal story of love, incomprehensible evil, beauty, the surety of God, and the undeniable power of forgiveness when extending grace seems impossible.

The author, Jenny Taylor, says the book came from her own experiences surrounding the murder of her father.

“’The Final Word’ is A True Account of Murder and Redemption, the title sums it up well. The title and last page of this story came to me first long before I even wrote anything else or even knew what I just wrote down meant,” she said. “The story starts out the night before my father, Junior Taylor was murdered there in Tullahoma Feb. 13, 2011. I had suddenly almost like a panic attack feeling of urgency to pray for my dad in the middle of the night, I was told by God my dad was going to die but He also asked me if I would be thankful no matter what. The very next day my dad was brutally stabbed to death and his home set on fire to cover up the crime. There the story takes off, as I go through the murder, I also share who my dad is, our life, different events in my life with my parents – oh they were so funny together, my mom still is and when I am with her even now, we definitely need adult supervision. The story is of how real God is, His power, incredible mercy even through such ugliness of this horrific crime and the events that follow, and then to actually see forgiveness and to experience it in a way I could have never imagined was absolutely incredible. To me this is a very personal story but so powerful and its message needed in these troubled, angry times we all are facing in our world today.”

Her book is available on Amazon and Kindle.