Though born in Miami, Florida, in the 1970s, Michelle Graves and her mother and stepfather moved to Roswell, Georgia, in 1984. It was there in the Peach State that Michelle found a home; for thirty-seven years, she moved between cities like Loganville, Roswell, and Cumming. Intelligent and hardworking, she graduated from Georgia Southern University with a B.S. in Therapeutic Recreation and a place on the Dean's List, as well as the Strive for Pi award for academics in her sorority AOPi. She worked for the Emory University Hospital System for twenty-four years upon graduation.Michelle befriended Tamla Horsford while living in Cumming, and the two women became like peas in a pod. They raised their children, Michelle's three and Tamla's five, together. With Tamla's death in 2018 and the corruption and racism it revealed in the police force of Forsyth County, Michelle decided to move to Freeport, Florida. An advocate for justice for Tamla's death, Michelle has authored this book to shed more light on the "accidental" status of her death.
