num_pages: 448
description: From one of the greatest legal injustices of our time sprang one of the most unlikelyand unforgettablelove stories. Damien Echols was just eighteen years old when he was condemned to death for a crime he didnt commit. His casethat of the infamous West Memphis Threegained notoriety after a documentary Paradise Lost  exposed the biased nature of the trial and Echols as the precocious charmingand tragicfigure at its center. Lorri Davis was a landscape architect living in New York City when she surreptitiously wandered into a showing of the film and she left forever changed. She too was from the South accustomed to being the outsider in a small town. She saw much of herself in Echols understood how he could easily have been swept up in a witch hunt and she couldnt get him out of her head. So she wrote him a letterand when it arrived in Echolss penitentiary cell in April 1996 hers were some of the first kind words of support he heard.Over the course of a remarkable sixteen-year correspondence Echols and Davis grew to know each other fall in love and marryall without ever being able to touch each other freely or be alone together. In Yours for Eternity  their extraordinary letters provide a singular portrait of their marriage from the first heady days of discovery to the final painful months before Echolss release. Through postscripts and footnotes Echols and Davis describe how they overcame the enormous challenges and heartbreaks throughout the yearspersonal setbacks legal complications and much more. Yours for Eternity reveals a relationship unfolding in the most exceptional of circumstances. Powerful and incredibly intimate it is a modern-day love story for the ages.
language: English
title: Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row
publisher: Blue Rider Press