Read an exclusive excerpt from She's the One Who Can't Keep Quiet by S.R. Cronin

 

It's another one of the books from the War Stories of the Seven Troublesome Sisters series by S.R. Cronin! Today you get to read an exclusive excerpt from She's the One Who Can't Keep Quiet. Be sure to download your copy and then check out the rest of the tour. Best of luck entering the giveaway!

Do you know what your problem is?

Celestine, the fifth of seven sisters, is tired of hearing about hers. Father thinks she’s frivolous because she likes pretty clothes and caters to the crowds in the taverns who adore her music. Mother thinks that because she’s the most social daughter in the family, she can’t keep quiet about anything.

They’re both wrong. Celestine hides a secret she has kept for most of her life.

As the family beauty and a talented musician with a lyrical voice, she has the best prospects for marriage to a prince. When such a liaison never happens, people assume Celestine is too choosy. But even in somewhat tolerant Ilari, a daughter hates to disappoint her family. How can she tell them she’s in love with a princess instead?

Lucky for Celestine, all her sisters are obsessed with an invading army headed to their realm. Celestine would rather ignore the threat and enjoy the freedom their lack of attention gives her. But, her voice can unlock a power that may help save Ilari. And the woman she loves is determined to fight these invaders. And her family, for all their talents, seems clueless about how to motivate the masses.

Celestine knows she can inspire the citizens of Ilari to do what needs to be done. Is it time to put her inhibitions aside and use her voice to save those she cares about?

Read an exclusive excerpt:

“Astronomy? Why are you wasting your time on that?” Zamarran demanded to know.

Only anks ago he and I had decided to start a performing group that would continue past our study time in Pilk. Neither of us had found the requisite mate while in school and in three eights of a year we’d be done. Then I would probably go wait tables in a tavern somewhere, under the pretense of looking for a husband while I sang and played the psaltery on the side. Fate had dealt Zamarran a more difficult hand. Everyone would expect him to have a respectable profession while he sought a wife. Playing in an ensemble barely qualified, but it was better than being a lone performer.

No attraction existed between us, and we both knew it with such certainty that we barely needed to speak of it. It made us ideal business partners. But two people did not constitute an ensemble, especially not when one of them was primarily a drummer, albeit an unusually talented one. We had to have a third and better yet a fourth performer to get the respect we needed. I understood Zamarran’s urgency.

However, the mysterious young teacher Firuza fascinated me. I’d find time to take her class.

“We need new sorts of friends,” I told Zamarran. “Other musicians do nothing but promote themselves. Maybe I can get some of our realm’s future scientists to demand local taverns hire us. Huh?”

He grunted his agreement, his large frame turned away from me as he made adjustments to one of his many drums. He’d already figured out I’d do what I wanted to anyway, as would he. Part of our pact was that neither of us was in charge.

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Sherrie Cronin writes stories about people achieving the astonishing by developing abilities they barely knew they had. She’s made a lot of stops along the way to telling these tells — living in seven cities, visiting forty-six countries, and working as a waitress, technical writer, and geophysicist. She’s lost too many beloved cats to mention, but has acquired a husband and three children who are all doing fine, despite how odd she is.

Today she lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina where she writes, answers a hotline, and occasionally checks her phone for a message from Captain Picard. She still hopes to get the chance to pursue her remaining dream in life and become Chief Science Officer on the Starship Enterprise.

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