Blog Tour: SHE'S THE ONE WHO CARES TOO MUCH by S.R. Cronin

 

 

She's the One Who Cares Too Much

(Book Two of the War Stories of the Seven Troublesome Sisters)

by S. R. Cronin

 

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GENRE: Historical Fantasy

 

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BLURB:

 

Coral, the second of seven sisters, has been hiding her affair with the perfect man until her older sister can get her life together. But the perfect man is getting impatient and now she’s gotten pregnant. Coral decides it’s time to consider her own happiness.

 

But what does she want? The perfect husband turns out to be less than ideal. She adores the small children she teaches but the idea of being a mother fills her with joy. Meanwhile, her homeland is gripped by fear of a Mongol invasion and she can’t stop crying about everything now that she’s with child.

 

Then a friend suggests the ever-caring Coral possesses a power well beyond what she or anyone else imagines. Does she? And why is the idea so appealing?

 

When Coral’s big sister loses faith in the army and decides to craft a way to use magic to save Ilari from the Mongols, she decides Coral’s formidable talent is what the realm needs. Can Coral raise a baby, placate an absent military husband who thinks he’s stopping the invasion, and help her sister save her homeland?

 

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EXCERPT:

 

Yet, plenty worried me.

 

He was from Lev, where the vineyards of Ilari thrived in picturesque hills and where the rich liked to spend their leisure time. He had invited me to meet his family as soon as mine learned about him, but the trip made me nervous. He’d called me a simple farm girl. What would his family think of me?

 

And what would my unpretentious family think of him? Davor was a military man, nothing like my gentle, intellectual dad. Would the two of them have anything to say to each other?

 

And what of my mother? Over the years, she’d made it clear we weren’t simply to marry. Our father was a respected soil expert in the farming nichna of Vinx and she’d gone to great pains to teach us everything from grooming to fine arts, ensuring enough polish for us to wed the best Ilari had to offer.

 

“But what about love,” I’d asked her repeatedly.

 

“It’s just as easy to fall in love with a prince,” she’d answered each time. I’d gotten the point by the time I was eight.

 

But Davor hadn’t been born to a royal family. Rather, he’d achieved his status when a decree made him a Mozdol after his brave actions in a skirmish with a band of thieves. Being a Mozdol was supposed to be the legal equivalent of a being prince. Would it count with my mother?

 

The one thing that didn’t concern me was Davor’s affection for me. He liked the way I was. He didn’t think I was too nice and he didn’t mind the bit of plumpness plaguing me. He told me my softness was part of what attracted him. And while I thought my orange hair was too bright, he adored it, running his figures through it every time we were together.

 

When I’d learned he was eight years my senior, I had been concerned. A man seldom waited so long to wed. He told me his commitment to the Svadlu made it difficult to find a mate. After his proposal, I knew my parents would find his being unattached worrisome, too, so I pushed harder for a better explanation.

 

He told me he was still single because he’d been waiting for me. I knew that wasn’t true, but it was a charming thing to say.

 

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Sherrie Cronin is the author of a collection of six speculative fiction novels known as 46. Ascending and is now in the process of publishing a historical fantasy series called The War Stories of the Seven Troublesome Sisters. A quick look at the synopses of her books makes it obvious she is fascinated by people achieving the astonishing by developing abilities they barely knew they had.

 

She’s made a lot of stops along the way to writing these novels.  She’s lived in seven cities, visited forty-six countries, and worked as a waitress, technical writer, and geophysicist. Now she answers a hot-line. Along the way, she’s lost several cats but acquired a husband who still loves her and three kids who’ve grown up just fine, both despite how odd she is.

 

All her life she has wanted to either tell these kinds of stories or be Chief Science Officer on the Starship Enterprise. She now lives and writes in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where she admits to occasionally checking her phone for a message from Captain Picard, just in case.

 

Author Social Media Links:

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cinnabar01

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Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/5805814.Sherrie_Cronin

Amazon: www.amazon.com/Sherrie-Cronin/e/B007FRMO9Q

Author Blog: https://sherriecronin.xyz/

Book Series Blog: https://troublesome7sisters.xyz/

 

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