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84 Days: The Fall
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Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Rise Anyway Publishing
Published: Oct 3 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when trying to save someone else nearly destroys your own life?
In 84 Days: The Fall, Shardae Burt shares the true story of how one decision to help a person in need led to her arrest, extradition, and eighty-four days behind bars on charges connected to armed robbery and murder.
At thirty years old, Shardae was a devoted single mother of two with dreams for her future. Suddenly, she was separated from her children, held on a $100,000 bond, and forced to fight for her freedom while the public formed opinions about her based on accusations and a booking photograph.
Behind bars, Shardae faced fear, isolation, humiliation, and the possibility of losing everything she had worked to build. But the most difficult battle was not only against the charges-it was the battle to hold on to her identity when the world had already decided who she was.
84 Days: The Fall is an honest and deeply personal memoir about motherhood, incarceration, judgment, faith, survival, and the emotional consequences of being defined by the worst moment of your life. Shardae reveals what it felt like to live with uncertainty, miss irreplaceable moments with her children, and struggle to recognize herself beneath the shame and trauma.
Her release did not immediately set her free. Although the physical bars were gone, the experience remained with her for years. Rebuilding required more than returning home. It required forgiveness, healing, courage, and the willingness to confront the past she had tried to leave behind.
Shardae eventually transformed her pain into purpose, becoming a registered nurse, author, speaker, and advocate. By sharing her story, she challenges readers to examine the invisible prisons created by guilt, fear, trauma, and the opinions of others.
Powerful, vulnerable, and ultimately inspiring, 84 Days: The Fall is the first book in a three-part memoir series about the fall, the fight, and the rise. It is for anyone who has ever been judged by one decision, haunted by a painful chapter, or forced to rebuild a life that no longer looked the way they imagined.
This is not only a story about spending eighty-four days in jail. It is a story about reclaiming your name, rebuilding your identity, and discovering that your worst day may change your circumstances-but it never has the authority to determine your worth.
They handed her a sentence. She wrote the book.
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