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    Her Father's Sword
    Her Father's Sword
    Her Father's Sword
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    Her Father's Sword

    By Candice Raquel Lee

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    When young Evangeline runs away from her marriage to a carpenter to avenge her estranged father's death, she gets more than she bargained for in the shape of a murder mystery, a big handsome brother and a green-jeweled sword. When she finally unravels the truth, it will turn out to be stranger, funnier and more wonderful than she ever expected.

    The "Sword Trick" is a twist on the old Grimm fairy tale "The Three Brother's" except it about a female protagonist, her sword and her adventure. It is a funny, fantasy, comedy romance at its best.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCandice Raquel Lee
    Release dateMar 6, 2016
    ISBN9781311086914
    Her Father's Sword
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    Candice Raquel Lee

    I was born in Brooklyn in one of the worst neighborhoods man has ever created. All other details are kind of fuzzy, thank God, except that at times I was happy there. I am mixed raced and mixed cultured. The primary culprits in my creation are Native American, Jewish, European and African-American. I think that is why I write mixed-up stories. I like to mix reality with fantasy, the sacred and the profane, the illuminating with the infuriating. I am also one of the last Romantics living. That is why I write stories about love (not lust.) I write about love of one soul for another. I write poetically and deeply. I write about longing and people who are pure of heart. I am primarily from a different time (somewhere around the Late Romantic period. They would have loved my stuff!) When I am not writing, I read classics and am trying to build a time machine, so I can go back home. P.S. I also have a sense of humor. P.S.S. I am also very appreciative. Thanks to all of you who enjoyed my books and took the time to rate or review or like me on Facebook. If you didn't, now's a great opportunity to do so.

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      Her Father's Sword - Candice Raquel Lee

      Copyright © 2015 Candice R. Lee

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

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      The Sword Trick

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      The Sword Trick

      ow many stinking rainstorms? How many gray clouds had passed by, bloated with empty promises? Evangeline glared at the low-hanging belly of the sky. She gritted her teeth when the first cold spatters hit her skin. She let them race down her cheeks like the tears she could not cry. When it started to come down in earnest, she straightened her back, focused on the distant razor line between heaven and earth. She raised her sword. It flashed like lightning as she swung the blade over her head, her wrist and arm gyrating, smooth like wool on a spindle.

      It rained on all sides, but not one drop could reach her through the spinning circle of steel. She swung hard and long, listening to the clean song of steel against air. She kept the storm at bay as long as her arm held, but finally she faltered. The sword flew away, cutting into the dead mud of some stranger’s plot a few feet away. She collapsed over her father’s grave.

      I did it, she cried. I can do it! After sixteen years! I wanted you to see, so you would be proud of me!

      Evangeline dug her fingers into the pebbly soil, as if she could reach him, touch him, and make

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