The Healing Book of Eden

By M. Navarra

A Princess enters the Royal Garden alone to discover what killed her mother there and finds her own life in peril. Only a long, uncertain journey to a forgotten kingdom (Eden) can save her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490845319

M. Navarra

This story was inspired by Jesus Christ and the healing provided for us through His Cross. This story is fictional. The Forbidden Garden and the characters are fictional. The Garden at the beginning of this story, the Royal Garden (also known as the Forbidden Garden) is fictional. It is the same garden. The Garden of Eden at the end of the story is the actual biblical Garden of Eden. All references to Eden in this story are the actual biblical Eden. M. Navarra lives in Florida, and she is semi-retired. When she retires fully, she would like to spend all her time writing.

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-4531-9 (e)

WestBow Press rev. date: 9/16/2014

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. THE ROYAL GARDEN

II. A FORBIDDEN PLACE

III. THE FOUNTAIN

IV. A MISSING PRINCESS

V. THE OPEN GATE

VI. THE CURSE OF EDEN

VII. SHIMMERING WOOD

VIII. A CROSSROADS

IX. THE PLATEAU OF SILENCE

X. THE RIVER OF TAMARAD

XI. ALL IS FORGIVEN

XII. THE TRUMPETER

CHAPTER I

THE ROYAL GARDEN

The Royal Garden once open to everyone is now closed to everyone. No longer will anyone be allowed to visit it, nor will it be tended by the Royal Gardeners, or so stated King Jangelle’s new law.

Its gate will remain locked until the mystery of Queen Mave’s death there is solved, said the sad King as he signed the new law. It was then posted on the garden wall beside its gate.

No one really knew what had happened to the Queen, only that she was found lying on the ground in the Royal Garden, unconscious. She was brought back to the castle where she died shortly afterward, leaving behind the King and their only child, the Princess Tarinee.

Time passed slowly for the Kingdom paused in mourning until one day seven years later … . .

CHAPTER II

A FORBIDDEN PLACE

Princess Tarinee looked out of her bedroom window from the tallest tower of her father’s castle. From here she could see almost anywhere in his Kingdom.

To the west, she could see the green, hilly pastures