From 8,000 Miles with Destiny Dawn

Thursday, March 13th at 6:00 p.m.

Old Courthouse Museum

From 8,000 Miles is a gripping story of betrayal, dishonor, and blackmail; and the strength and love it takes to rescue someone who doesn't want to be saved.You'll find horror, heartbreak and humor in this traumatic family true story.

 

At the age of twenty-one our daughter left our home in the middle of the night and boarded a plane headed to the other side of the world to meet a guy she had been talking to online for two years without our knowledge. She left a letter telling us his father paid for a one-way ticket for her to come to his country, assured us she was fine, and there was no need to worry. We feared the worst, as the city she was flying into was known as the sex trafficking capital of the world.

 

Fearing for her safety, and despite the impossibility of catching up to her before her plane landed, we raced through a series of obstacles and hurdles, and found ourselves on our way to get our daughter. After seeing her for one night we let her make a choice, one that would prove to be devastating. We were fighting things in front of us as well as things we couldn't see; and after risking everything, we believed we would be leaving without her. The influences working against us were so powerful, it would take Divine Intervention to bring her back.
 

Destiny Dawn is a wife and mother of three grown children who lives in Southern Alabama. She graduated from the University of South Alabama with a bachelor's of science in Business Administration and owns and runs an automotive business with her husband, Brent, that they founded in 1999.

From 8,000 Miles is her first book. In it she details the traumatic events that unfolded in her family's life in mid-September 2018. It's one of the many trials they faced together, and she writes about it in a very honest and candid way to bring strength, healing, and hope to others who have faced their own set of trials and circumstances. "My faith in Jesus Christ is the reason I made it through, and everything I write is a testimony of what He has done for me," she says.