SHE'S THE ONE WHO GETS IN FIGHTS & Giveaway

 

She’s the One that Gets in Fights

(Book Three 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:

 

Do you know what your problem is?

 

Sulphur knows hers. This 13th-century woman has trained as a fighter all her life in hopes of joining the army. Then, within days, both of her older sisters announce plans and suddenly Sulphur is expected to find a man to marry instead.

 

Is it her good fortune her homeland is gripped by fear of a pending invasion and the army now goes door to door encouraging recruits? Sulphur thinks it is. But once she’s forced to kill in a small skirmish, she’s ready to rethink her career decision. Too bad it’s too late. The invasion is coming, and Ilari needs every good soldier it has.

 

Once Sulphur learns Ilari’s army has made the strategic decision to not defend certain parts of the realm, including the one where her family lives, she has to re-evaluate her loyalty. Is it with the military she’s always admired? Or is it with her sisters, who are hatching a plan to defend their homeland with magic?

 

The problem with being a woman who fights for what’s right is that now, she has to figure out what is.

 

(The War Stories of the Seven Troublesome Sisters consists of seven short companion novels. Each tells the personal story and perspective of one of seven radically different sisters in the 1200s as they prepare for an invasion of their realm. While these historical fantasy/alternate history books can be enjoyed as stand-alone novels, together they tell the full story of how Ilari survived.)

 

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EXCERPTS:

 

 

I know families who support the Svadlu. Their sons and occasionally their daughters join and serve with distinction, and they provide financial and emotional support by funding purses given out for specific bravery or by lodging soldiers on their lands.

 

My family wasn’t like that. Our strongest ties were to the learning community and, for reasons I didn’t understand, Ilari’s most educated felt little affinity for those who kept our society safe. Even knowing this, I didn’t expect the hostility I encountered from my three sisters once the four of us settled into Ryalgar’s oversized room, each of us finding a corner to put our bedding. They weren’t hostile to me; I think they all supported my career and were happy I’d gotten to join. They were, however, far more distrusting of the Svadlu’s intentions and their abilities than I expected.

 

I never doubted the power of our fighters or their integrity. I’d admired them for as long as I could remember. Now, my three sisters insisted the Svadlu were not only incapable of defending us against the Mongols, but that they also planned to betray half the realm in an ill-fated attempt to save the other. It was preposterous.

 

But they persisted. Ryalgar explained how hard it would be to defend the exposed outer nichnas where we’d grown up. She’d spent anks researching everything known about these invaders and felt certain the Mongols’ powers of fighting on horseback were unsurpassed. They’d overrun lands far more prepared than ours. I had to admit, Ryalgar could research a topic like no one I’d ever met.

 

And Coral appeared to have done more with Davor than make a baby. Conversations were had, and the plan to offer up the eastern half of the realm if the battle went poorly had been in the offing since before her pregnancy. Coral wasn’t one to lie, or even to misunderstand the intentions of another. She read people prucking well.

 

My sisters’ solution? They wanted to train the farmers and herders and even the women of the forest to fight. It was the most ridiculous idea I’d ever heard.

 

 

 

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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 eccentric 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/

 

Buy Links:

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TQKGCP4

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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1068509

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