ISABELLE'S POV:My new book title I was writing was called The Snipers Promise.It was a name that popped into my head right in the middle of the night, only a few weeks after little Athena was born. I was sitting comfortably in the rocking chair in the nursery, holding my sleeping daughter close to my chest while my mind drifted through the winding path of our past. I thought about the garden, the childhood promise made so many years ago, the painful rejection, the long and agonizing years apart, our sudden and dramatic reunion, the terrifying attack, our wedding day, and finally, the birth of our baby girl. Sitting there in the chair, I knew without a doubt that I had to write it all down. Not as a fictional story with changed names and altered details, but as the raw, unvarnished truth. Our truth.I began writing right then and there. I pushed through the sheer physical tiredness, the sleepless nights, the endless rounds of feeding and changing diapers, and all those quiet mome
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