She's the One Who Cares Too Much by S.R. Cronin

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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?

Read an Excerpt:

I didn’t expect Davor to stay, but he spent two nights at the farm. He made a noticeable effort to converse with my father, and my father made the same effort back.

“So, you must have been the one who named your daughters,” Davor said, not realizing there were family controversies hidden in the topic.

“I named most of them.” Dad wasn’t going to give details. Mom felt otherwise.

“He started the whole thing off by naming Ryalgar after some obscure rock,” she said.

“A perfectly lovely red mineral often found in mines,” he interjected.

“So I named our second daughter after the beautiful peach-colored necklace from Persia he bought me when we were married. The stone is the color of a soft setting sun.”

“Coral is not a stone. It’s organic. It comes from sea creatures.”

Davor maintained a vacant smile as they argued.

“Then he got even by naming the next child Sulphur. Horrible name. Horrible smell. My sweet daughter.”

Everyone turned to Sulphur. She shrugged. “I like my name. No one else has it.”

We were lucky my fourth sister, Olivine, brought in more wine and some fruit and cheese to nibble on while we waited for the meal.

About the Author:

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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