...and Purpose in Life

Ward Allan Yont is serving a life sentence for a murder he committed in 1993 while under the influence of methamphetamine and in the midst of a psychotic break suffered after his mother died in a freak accident. Ward's first book, ...and Purpose in Life, is a memoir about the events that led to his incarceration and subsequent spiritual transformation. "We can easily focus on the tragedies in Yont's story, but there is no need to dwell there. For this is a story of resurrection and love—of darkness turned into light and the transformation of the human heart. Yont is not a victim, but a teacher. He has lived his own story and now he illumines ours."—Marianne Williamson, educator, speaker and author of A Return to Love