Literary Las Vegas: Jayne Post and Kayla Gilmore
In the book “No Future Without,” “Marriage Can Be Murder” dinner show co-creator and star Jayne Post shares a fictionalized account inspired by the accident that took her son Paul P. San Agustin’s life. In 2003, Post’s son was riding his bike near his home in Henderson when he was hit by a 16-year-old driver and died. Readers are led through two parallel endings — one of forgiveness and one of anger.
“I am overwhelmed with gratitude,” Post said in a press release. “So many people sent encouragement along the way so I could share the important message of choosing forgiveness in tragedy. This book has been 10 long years in the making, and it felt surreal.”
Post’s co-author, Kayla Gilmore, came into contact with the family as a volunteer at Paul’s funeral. Post is also the co-senior pastor and founder of Sin City Church with pastor Rhonda Baker.
Excerpt:
Jayne watched Paul walk into the band room and smiled to herself. He was getting closer to manhood but still her baby boy. And that wink. Oh, how she loved that wink. The first time she saw it was the day he was born. Paul arrived a month early, completely healthy and ready to take on the world. He was just seconds old when the nurse put him on her chest. In that moment, mother and son first made eye contact and baby Paul gave her that wink.
Paul’s birth was so easy compared to Chris’s. She was only four months pregnant with Chris when doctors told her to abort him. But she already had an abortion two years earlier with her boyfriend, Carl. That time, it was Carl and her family pressing her to abort. Her own mother had even sent her a check for it. She was so young, just 21, and scared and confused, so she went ahead with it. It had haunted her ever since.
