I am looking for the name of a book I read years ago 2004 or later so it was probably published near that year and I can not remember the name of it. The story line was fictional, spiritual in ways of the turning, fantasy in the ways of particular people having special type power from inside and the guidance the little girl had of the voice/drawing her but was along the lines of a world war/end of times, I remember the girl was walking/strolling along/through corn fields and seeing them open up and rockets shooting out and seeing incoming missiles running and I remember someone was saved by jumping into or falling into a storm drain and being partially covered with water and it boiling off her and burning her but surviving (Might also be the voice/person the little girl is guided to by the story end, the people that survived went through dramatic changes and if I am not mistaken everyone turned. Turning them it was said showing their inner self as it really is, on the outside. Like if you were a good person inside very little happened perhaps bones were mended and scares lifted away deformity’s perfected and if you were evil and did horrid things your body was turned basically inside out showing all the ugliness of your inner self.. which didn’t kill them but made them realize what they were on the inside. I remember parts in the story, like near the end it getting so very cold ground being covered in snow and the little girl that was being guided made it to a house/farm/place and finding some garden seeds, she went out into the cold blowing snow (I think there was snow) winds with those seeds and seen where another little girl had frozen in place in a garden where she to had been trying to plant the seeds also.. this little girl over comes the fear, the cold and warms the ground with her fingers before planting each seed.. when she and are amazed/blessed that they find the seeds are growing because of the goodness she had inside of her. In subsequent to her travels there were other groups/couples and kids being ushered into the Cheyenne Mountain (Military underground base for the President and others the name they used actually exists). In the beginning the Presidents plane was knocked out of the sky by a school bus while he was watching out the window witnessing the destruction by all the missiles/explosions hitting below. he did survive but don’t remember what happened to him. One of the younger people I took as being a kid made a bad mistake in making a choice (I think it was something about when he was entering Cheyenne Mountain with others or while they were inside but he ends up outside and aligning with some other evils and when he turns its in agony and pain and becomes hideous to look at driving him into doing even worse things and maybe insane. The good didn’t experience the pain/agony the same as the bad ones did but not exactly sure how that went its been nagging me awhile now. I am pretty sure I gave the book away years ago and don’t remember to whom and am 256 miles away from home and will be for some time so I can’t look for it to be certain.. Hopefully it jogs yours or someones elses mind. I have posted on my facebook page in hopes a friend might recognize it also. Thank you for your time. I found it to be a good story and would like to read it again anyway. If it rings a bell please let me know.
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