Remembered: Reagan, Braxlynn and the Families Taylor Parker Destroyed (Taylor Parker, Maternal Instinct Book 3)

On the morning of 9 October 2020, in the small town of New Boston, Texas, a twenty-one-year-old wife and mother named Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock was killed in her own home. Her unborn daughter, Braxlynn Sage, was cut from her body and did not survive the day. The woman who killed them had been Reagan's wedding photographer, and a friend.The crime has been chronicled in headlines, court records, and true-crime catalogues. The killer has been named, tried, sentenced, and exhaustively profiled. What has been missing, until now, is the other story — the story of who Reagan was before she became a victim, and of the families left behind to live in the long aftermath she did not survive to see.Remembered is that story.Drawn entirely from public records, sworn trial testimony, appellate decisions, and the family's own published interviews, Daniel Beckett's restrained, literary work of narrative nonfiction returns the focus to where it belongs: to a young woman who loved sunflowers, who became a mother at seventeen and was, by her own mother's account, the best mama she had ever known. To the unborn daughter who never got to live. To the husband, the sister, the grandmother, the small-town community, and the wider web of families who continue, against all reason, to carry the loss forward.Remembered is not a book about how Reagan died. It is a book about who she was, what was taken when she was killed, and how the people who loved her have learned to live in the after.For readers of literary true crime in the tradition of Truman Capote, Maggie Nelson, and Patrick Radden Keefe, this is a quiet, careful, and necessary act of remembrance.Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock. Braxlynn Sage Hancock. Remembered. Read more