The Flower Bed of Eden is the first chapter of Torn From the Inside Out, memoir of Sara Niles. At the age of 3 1/2, Sara was taken home by an elderly uncle to be raised by he and his elderly wife. From the age of 3 1/2 to Sara's preteen years, Sara lived in 'The Flower Bed of Eden' as her cousin Andrew was fond of saying, in the heart of a beautiful, flower filled farm, until Sara's world disintegrated around her. Torn From the Inside Out by Sara Niles continues the story: http://www.amazon.com/Torn-Inside-Out-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B00DLY9TW2/

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...