Sevenfold

By Ilyan Kei Lavanway

In the near future, the United Nations have become the enforcement arm of the New World Order. What was once the United States of America has been absorbed into the North American Superstate that includes Canada and Central America. Against unspeakable odds, freedom loving people have gathered and built up Zion Cities. Dozens of Zion Cities located strategically throughout the Western Hemisphere have taken decades to erect. Most are still under construction, facing continual opposition from external forces. Small, self governing bands of Christians have migrated, mostly on foot, seeking refuge in these cities. Young wife, Gracie yearns for renewed innocence. Abiathar wants to secure it for her. Their trek has been anything but blissful. Stomach their journey, and let your faith be strengthened through their experience. Glimpse tribulations and miracles future pioneers may expect as you live vicariously through this young family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ilyan Kei Lavanway
• Release date: Aug 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301860357

Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Ilyan Kei Lavanway is a proliferate yet undiscovered and unheralded Christian author. He served as a full-time missionary for two years in Argentina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1986-1988. Since 2005, he has written and published over two dozen books of various lengths, ranging from a few pages to almost five-hundred pages. His education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Master of Science degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.Mr. Lavanway is married and has an autistic son who has Down's syndrome. Mr. Lavanway grew up in Wenatchee and Waterville, Washington State. He is the oldest of nine siblings, seven of whom are living. He spent his high school summers driving wheat trucks and combines during harvest, earning cash to support his first love, the love of flight. He was an avid private pilot in his teens.Ironically, for all his love of aviation, Mr. Lavanway's fourteen years in the United States Air Force never landed him a flight crew assignment. Nope. He was kicking it subterranean school in a capsule beneath the North Dakota plains as an ICBM launch officer for his first four years of service, followed by a year of really uninteresting work in a vault, on base. His next two years took him up near the Canadian border, to the giant, phased array space surveillance and early warning radar site outside Cavalier, North Dakota.Then, he was off to California. Academic assignments filled the final seven years of his military service. By the time he was medically retired from active duty, he had discovered his passion for writing.Since life has thrown him a few curves that make it impractical for him to return to flying airplanes any time soon, he has poured his heart into the written word.Mr. Lavanway feels he has a God-given gift and responsibility to express eternal principles that will point sincere readers to the scriptures, to the living apostles, to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, and ultimately to a personal relationship with God the Father, and with God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Ghost.

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Sevenfold

By Ilyan Kei Lavanway

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Copyright 2013 Ilyan Kei Lavanway

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This short story is a work of fiction. It does not represent the official position of any organization. Names are used with creative liberty. Similarities to actual persons, organizations, places, or events are purely coincidental.

Dedicated to my mother, who introduced to me the books that inspired this short story.

Contents

Preface

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

About the Author

Preface

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