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    One Gold in the Land of Rain: The Child Who Brought Back the Sun from the Evil Land of Darkness
    One Gold in the Land of Rain: The Child Who Brought Back the Sun from the Evil Land of Darkness
    One Gold in the Land of Rain: The Child Who Brought Back the Sun from the Evil Land of Darkness
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    One Gold in the Land of Rain: The Child Who Brought Back the Sun from the Evil Land of Darkness

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    A princess sacrifices her marriage and her soul to a dead tree disguised as a dear friend called the Valentine tree.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateFeb 13, 2014
    ISBN9781490804897
    One Gold in the Land of Rain: The Child Who Brought Back the Sun from the Evil Land of Darkness
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    Glenda Silver

    Glenda Silver is writing this book because the things she has encountered in her life, she has symbolically written in her book. Glenda believes this book tells about how God's love is important for parents to stay together and not let temptation spoil it, like the tree had spoiled the marriage of a young princess. Glenda was born in Houston, Texas, and still lives there today. She grew up in Houston, living her life treated like the daughter of the princess in her book. Glenda decided to write a book about it, adding fiction to the book, so the story would be exciting and encouraging for a lot of teenagers to read.

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      One Gold in the Land of Rain - Glenda Silver

      Copyright © 2014 Glenda Silver.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0490-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0491-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0489-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013914437

      WestBow Press rev. date: 02/12/2014

      Contents

      Chapter 1   The Story of the Dead Tree

      Chapter 2   The Slumber Fairy

      Chapter 3   The Troubled Child

      Chapter 4   A Leprechaun’s Wife

      Chapter 5   Father of Eve

      Chapter 6   The God-Fearing Child

      Chapter 7   The Chosen Maid

      Chapter 8   Return for Battle

      Chapter 9   A Mother’s Rescue

      Chapter 10   The Tree of Pleasure

      Chapter 11   The Battle Is Done

      Chapter 12   The Ice Has Broken

      Chapter 1

      The Story of the Dead Tree

      Since the world began, there had never been a leprechaun, until the day a young girl found a tree she called the Tree of Gold. The tree possessed a magical power that caused a person partaking of its fruit to turn into a leprechaun. A leprechaun had the ability to break the curse placed upon a person by an evil spirit.

      A hundred years before that girl found the Tree of Gold, another girl had found a similar tree. This girl had been a very rich princess, and she had been deceived by an evil spirit. This evil spirit had been sent by the Devil, not only to ruin her marriage and destroy her family, but also to ruin the glory of God’s blessed country.

      The princess left her husband and daughter because her soul was filled with darkness. She intentionally froze herself by touching a frozen cross made out of sticks, which had been left by another princess near a tree that an evil spirit had cast a spell on. The princess remained an ice figure for ninety years.

      The legend was told for decades about the frozen princess who was the mother of all the evil that existed in her faraway country. This country, unknown by most of humanity, was part of the British Empire and was called Leaflin. For what the princess had done, God punished Leaflin with rivers of rain.

      It was ordained by God that no one could save Leaflin until a female leprechaun broke the spell on the princess who had destroyed the glory of the country.

      Yet there was still hope.

      Thirty-nine years after the days of Joan of Arc, a prince named Reed Crafter married a beautiful princess. This marriage was ordained by their parents. The lovely princess, Ellen Maid, had always admired the beautiful trees and bushes.

      In August, one beautiful bush grew nothing but white roses. Ellen was pregnant at that time, and she scratched her finger on one of the thorns near a bud of the white rose bush.

      As five drops of blood fell onto the white rosebud, the sweet nectar of the white rose entered Ellen’s finger and mixed with the blood inside her body. The blood went directly to the child, and when autumn came, Ellen brought forth a beautiful baby fairy. Ellen named the baby White Rose. Reed and Ellen Maid Crafter were very happy.

      A year and a half later, a mysterious tree popped out of nowhere. Reed was not aware of this tree, but Ellen was. To Ellen’s eyes, it was a beautiful tree that had lovely red roses. Not only was the tree beautiful, but it could talk! This tree was a Valentine tree, and it insisted that Ellen call it Valerie.

      Ellen should have known that trees do not talk. She was deceived by the tree, which was actually a dead tree haunted by an evil spirit. The tree enticed Ellen to come every day to listen as it said ugly things about Ellen’s husband, Reed.

      That isn’t very nice, she thought. I was not raised this way.

      But the tree finally convinced Ellen that she didn’t want to stay married to Reed Crafter any longer. She left her husband for two weeks, wishing for a divorce.

      After two weeks had passed, she returned to Reed. He observed that he had never seen a change in a female so quickly in all his life.

      During the two weeks of separation, Ellen had grabbed a rose from the dead Valentine tree and smelled the sweet fragrance. At that moment, Ellen had turned into a witch.

      When Ellen returned and asked Reed to forgive her for leaving him, he saw the change in her. He forgave her, but even he himself could see the Devil inside of her. She left Reed again and renamed their daughter, White Rose, with the new name of Lisa Leaf.

      Ellen’s sin not only ended the marriage, but the whole country of Leaflin never had sunshine again. The sun never came out, and the mist that had once given them water turned into the first rain.

      One gleam of hope still remained. The granddaughter of the queen of France, eighteen-year-old Elisabeth Ives, had been at the scene when an evil spirit had taken over the dead Valentine tree.

      She had grabbed two sticks and made a cross out of them. Then she had stuck the cross into the ground beside the tree and prayed. God heard Elisabeth’s prayer that the evil spirit inside the tree would not kill anyone who had contact with the tree.

      A year later, the tree disappeared, and in that year, Ellen Maid found the tree. Elisabeth Ives had already moved away from Leaflin to Scotland, where she was found by a man named Fredrick Columbus, a long-lost cousin of Christopher Columbus. He settled in Scotland after he found Elisabeth.

      When Fredrick met Elisabeth, she was frightened to death, for she had witnessed an evil spirit taking over the dead tree. She prayed that God would destroy the evil spirit, and Fredrick comforted her, even falling in love with her. Later, he became her husband.

      Eight years after the death of her grandmother Queen Isabella, Elisabeth heard that a great ice storm had covered the whole country of Leaflin. The ice storm had been caused by Ellen’s attempt to save her soul by touching the frozen cross. She had been frozen and kept alive inside of an ice block shaped like a casket.

      Ellen had never been the same after leaving Reed. Her daughter had been raised by Reed and his parents. They had moved away to live in a castle in England, but Ellen was not allowed to leave Leaflin. God was punishing her for what she had done.

      Two years later, Ellen tried to get her child back through the court system, but the courts wouldn’t allow it. She had committed a sin in what she had done, but she blamed it all on Reed. After being tricked, her love for him had turned into hate. Now her hate was rising because she couldn’t get her own way, and no one went against Ellen without getting burned. God kept Reed and his daughter Lisa safe from Ellen.

      As the years passed, the courts only allowed Ellen to see her daughter during visitation weekends and for four weeks every summer. But in Leaflin, there was no summer, because the sun didn’t shine and the rain poured continually. The people of Leaflin had to bring in their food and wine from England.

      Ellen knew she was being punished, and she treated her daughter terribly. There were some good days and some bad days.

      Seven years after Lisa’s birth, Ellen met a handsome hermit elf named Max Tucker and fell in love with him. Max was not very nice to Ellen’s daughter, but Ellen never defended Lisa against him.

      For years, Ellen made Lisa cry. As a child, Lisa loved to play, but her mother would never let her play if she talked about her daddy.

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      Lisa was always happy in England. The sun always shone there. She had made many friends who loved to play outside. In Leaflin, she could never play, because it always rained there. Lisa’s heart was broken because of her time in Leaflin.

      She picked many flowers that grew in

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