Adaeze and the Red Footed Falcon: The Land of the Golden Sun

By Marilyn Taylor Bradford

Adaeze and the Red-Footed Falcon is a book about a young beautiful African Princess who is forced to flee her village. She becomes a stowaway on a ship. When discovered, she tries fleeing, but is taken to a rice paddy. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is again snatched from the rice fields and taken to the house of the great Lord of China, Pow Chin. Then, the Red Footed Falcon arrives, which is a sign. The events that follow are extraordinary, but fate has a hand in the outcome.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524539191

Marilyn Taylor Bradford

Marilyn once heard this quote: “Whatever it is you desire to be or do at age 6 is what you will still want to do at age sixty six.” Marilyn believes that to be true. She has been telling stories all her life. She remembers telling stories to the neighborhood kids, while some sat on buckets turned upside down and others sat on milk crates, all listening to her. The memory of those days still makes her laugh. Marilyn learned the art of telling stories from her mother, who was a great story teller in her own right. Marilyn is a playwright and producer of 1 Act plays. She is a member of the International Women’s Leadership Association. She is listed in the U.S. Registry’s Who’s Who in The Leading American Executives. Adaeze and the Red-Footed Falcon is Marilyn’s forth-published book of fables. Marilyn lives in Southern California.

Book preview

Copyright © 2017 by Marilyn Taylor Bradford. 721275

ISBN: Softcover    978-1-5245-3920-7

Hardcover    978-1-5245-3921-4

EBook    978-1-5245-3919-1

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 02/14/2017

Xlibris

1-888-795-4274

www.Xlibris.com

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The Village

Chapter 2: Flight from the Golden Sun

Chapter 3: Nosizwe Speaks

Chapter 4: A Peculiar People in a Strange Land

Chapter 5: The Rice Paddy and the Girls

Chapter 6: The Caravan

Chapter 7: The House of Pow Chin

Chapter 8: Sue Chin

Chapter 9: The Red-Footed Falcon

Chapter 10: Pow Chin

Chapter 11: The Judgement

Chapter 12: Princess Adaeze’s Departure

Chapter 13: Adaeze’s Return Home

Acknowledgements

Thank you my friend, Martie Cook, for asking me to tell you this story over and over; that was good for my heart.

Verda Lyons, thank you for your support, and being there for me with your little red pen, and tending to the characters of this book as if they were your children, checking every word they spoke.

Thanks to my daughter Gisele and Renae my cousin, for the days we shared together and your encouragement. I have loved you both from the beginning of your time.

Thank you, Rian and Jaden Hollowell, my beautiful grandchildren for being you and