Forgive and Live

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 among the Hutu and 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