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    A Wise Woman and a King
    A Wise Woman and a King
    A Wise Woman and a King
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    A Wise Woman and a King

    By Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

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    A fairytale for girls who take charge of their own destiny!
    A Wise Woman with three daughters, who lives in harmony with nature, a greedy King with three sons, who wants to rule everything and everybody!
    Three princes with no kingdom to rule. Three fantastic strong daughters: an herbalist, a musician and a jeweler. Will the princes be able to keep up with the girls? Read to find out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSvetlana Kovalkova-McKenna
    Release dateSep 10, 2009
    ISBN9781452307213
    A Wise Woman and a King
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    Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

    Svetlana Kovalkova–McKenna has studied Journalism and Broadcasting at Moscow State University in Russia and has a Liberal Arts Degree from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a writer, an artist and a member of Nashville Artist Guild, mother of three, and a believer in fairytales.

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      A Wise Woman and a King by Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna is a wonderful story about true love and destiny. The wise woman and her three daughters live in a cottage in the middle of a forest. While they each have a unique talent, they all share the gift of being able to communicate with nature. The land is ruled by a strict and rather mean king. When his three sons fall in love with the three daughters of the wise woman, the king is furious and does all he can to prevent them from being together. The wise woman, working along with the enchanted forest, sees to it that destiny and love win out over the king’s ruling. This story combines a magical forest with the magic of love. Young and old girls alike will enjoy escaping into this fantasy world that Svetlana has created.

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    A Wise Woman and a King - Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

    A Wise Woman and a King

    Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

    A Wise Woman and a King

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    Copyright © 2009 by Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission of the author.

    For girls and their brothers

    Table of Contents

    Three Daughters and Three Sons

    The Hunt

    The Ball and Its Consequences

    A Wise Woman and a King

    More Than One Way to Escape

    Three Daughters and Three Sons

    Once upon a time, there lived a Wise Woman on the edge of a forest. She and her three daughters made a happy life for themselves in a small cottage left to them by her husband who worked as a woodcutter for the King. He died peacefully in his old age, and the King allowed the woman and her daughters to remain in the house as long as they kept the palace supplied with wood for the royal fireplaces.

    No one knew how the old woman managed it, but every day except Sunday she left the house with her old horse pulling a large, empty cart and by noon she came back with a cart full of finely chopped wood.

    She must have the strength of ten men, the villagers whispered when they saw her walk briskly out of the forest right before the midday sun would take its place in the sky. The King did not care how the woman got the wood; he paid her half of her late husband’s salary and considered himself a generous man for letting the Wise Woman and her daughters remain in the cottage.

    The Wise Woman did not care about the salary the King paid her. She and her daughters made a good living supporting themselves by their crafts. The Wise woman knew the healing arts and was a fine midwife. People from nearby villages often called her to assist in births, to aid a sickly child, or heal any other illness everyone gets from time to time. She was quick on her feet, did not refuse a long walk in the middle of the night to a house far away, and only took a fee that people could afford to pay.

    Mostly she did not charge anything at all, for many farmers were overtaxed already by the greedy King and his lords and did not have much to spare. She would simply wave her hand and say that her vegetable garden was good to her and that her daughters were starting to get paid for their skilled work. After all, what more could an old woman need? She would smile and her warm, gray eyes would catch the dancing sunlight even on the darkest winter days when there seemed to be no sunlight around. Her white hair, braided with colorful ribbons, always brightened the room and made a shimmering, silver frame for her round face. And, whether smiling or not, her tasty dimples never left her cheeks.

    Her daughters did not look anything like their mother or even each other, for that matter. Each had a character of her own, looks to match, and each was a skilled person in her own craft.

    The oldest daughter, Kamina, was small framed with the blackest hair you ever saw, tanned face, and welcoming emerald-green eyes. Nobody could guess where she got her tan because she spent most of her time, trusty tool bag tucked at her side, little hammer in hand, looking for gems inside the mountain caves behind the forest

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