My agent said, “Evelyn, after reading your book proposal I’ve classified your book as a murder mystery. The genre is your choice, but as you know, my specialty is turning books into movies.” He had to go and drop the “M” bomb, every fiction writer’s dream.

The connection Dian and I made through our letters and our time together at Karisoke four months before her murder, cemented my commitment to illuminate parts of her legacy buried with her on Mount Bisoke.