SHE'S THE ONE WHO DOESN'T SAY MUCH & Giveaway

 

She’s the One Who Doesn’t Say Much

(Book Four 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?

 

Olivine knows hers. This quiet thirteenth-century artist has been hiding a secret as she travels to K'ba to meet her friends. Others assume she's fallen in love with another artist, but it's much worse than that. For on the way to K'ba is the dirt poor nichna of Scrud, a place scorned by other Ilarians. And in Scrud is the one man who understands her.

 

However, Bohdan recognizes the dangers posed by an impending Mongol invasion. When he learns of Olivine's unusual visual powers, he convinces her to pick up her bow and start practicing.

 

She does, though she's more concerned with moving to K'ba where she can paint all day and see Bohdan whenever she wants. If only her sister hadn't decided Olivine and her fellow long eyes held one key to defending the realm.

 

Then, as if life wasn't complicated enough, Olivine learns the artist community she yearns to be part of has developed a different take on the invasion. They're sure the only way to survive is to capitulate completely to the Mongols’ demands. Artists who feel otherwise are no longer welcome.

 

Where does her future lie? The invasion is coming soon and Olivine doesn't have much time to decide.

 

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EXCERPTS:

 

 

I painted as much as I could over the next few days, anxious to meet some of my obligations with the shopkeeper before I went back to the farm to set up formal archery training with Nikolo and Arek. I told Zoya of my decision to delay my move and the reasons, but I kept conversations with everyone else centered on art or the weather. Having chosen my path, I wanted to remain above suspicion.

 

Then I rode back to Scrud, hoping to enlist Bohdan in my plans. First, I had to explain to him why I wouldn’t be living in K’ba anytime soon. I expected him to be disappointed.

 

“The idea of spending time with you in K’ba seemed more like a dream, not like something that would really happen. Scrudites don’t leave Scrud. Not often.”

 

“Maybe that needs to change,” I said. I wasn’t sure if I thought it needed to change for him or me, but either way, how could we envision a future together when we’d never spent the night anywhere but in his hut?

 

I hadn’t wanted to ask Zoya’s parents to lodge Bohdan with me. I knew they wouldn’t be bothered by our co-habitation on a non-holiday, and I thought they were open-minded enough to not mind a Scrudite at their inn. But they catered to Ilari’s wealthiest families, and undoubtedly some of their paying customers would mind. They could ill afford the trouble.

 

Today, I had more than enough coins to purchase us a room in a lower-class establishment with a less picky clientele.

 

“Come with me to K’ba tomorrow,” I said to Bohdan. “I want you to see my world or at least the place I hope I’ll live someday. We can work on the paintings where they won’t have to be transported far. It will be easier and faster.”

 

He knew what I was doing, and he liked it. I thought he might be nervous about the trip, but no. He grinned in anticipation of the adventure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

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