Having seven sons is a honor above no other. Which is why she is a disappointment. The only girl of seven children, she brought shame to her family. Who knew something like this could be turned into a book, but Rachel Rossano has done just that with her book,
Seventh Born. Read on to learn more about the book and enter the giveaway.
About the Book
In a world where seventh born sons are valued for their
strength and power, she is born a daughter.
Zezilia Ilar is the disappointment. Born after six brothers,
she was supposed to be the son to restore her family’s prestige. She intends to
remedy her shortcomings by being a dutiful daughter, marrying well and
producing children, preferably a set of seven sons. But when someone offers her
an alternative, she begins to dream of more.
In a society that worships a goddess, he follows the
Almighty.
Hadrian Aleron, as a seventh son of a seventh son, stands to
take up the second highest position in government, Sept Son. His main
qualification for office is his birth. Despite preparing for this role from
childhood, he does not desire what is to come. As a follower of the Almighty,
he knows he will be the target of many, and his faith might eventually lead to
death.
About the Author
Rachel Rossano lives with her husband and three children in
the northeastern part of the United States. Homeschooled through high school,
she began writing her early teens. She didn’t become serious about pursuing a
career as an author until after she had graduated from college and happily
married. Then the children came.
Now she spends her days being a wife, mother, teacher, and
household manager. Her evenings and free moments are devoted to her other
loves, writing and book cover design. Drawing on a lifelong fascination with
reading and history, she spends hours creating historical feeling fantasy
worlds and populating them with characters who live and breathe on the page.
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Giveaway
Rachel is giving away an eBook of her book. You can enter
here. Your odds of winning increase with every person you refer so spread the word! Good luck, and I hope you win!
Excerpt/Guest Post/Review/Character Spotlight
For
the first three hours of our trip, Master Silas slept. He climbed in, settled
on the floor at his wife’s feet, put a square of fabric over his face and fell
asleep. I was astonished that he could repose so deeply with the bouncing and
jostling of the wagon, but he snored away.
His wife apparently thought nothing of
this strange behavior and proceeded to tell me about her daughters. Galatea,
Eloine, and Candra were interesting girls if I were to judge them only on their
mother’s opinion.
Galatea, the eldest, was about my age,
fair and sweet, though taken to posturing and striking poses. Despite this I
was repeatedly assured that we would be the best of friends. Eloine, it seemed,
took after her father’s tendencies toward studying. She spent most of her time
with a nose in a book. Candra was the most interesting to me of the three.
Her mother introduced her by saying, “She
is a garden child. I have never known a little one to spend so much time among
bushes and plants. I can hardly get her to come in for meals. And the grass
stains…” She lifted her hands in mock horror. “I have given up on keeping that
child clean. I don’t know what Errol was thinking asking Ilias for his willow
farm to stay at.”
“I was thinking of you, my dear,” Errol
commented from beneath his square of cloth.
“However do you mean?”
Master Silas removed the fabric square
and looked up at his wife. “Don’t you remember the trouble that we had with
training Ilias? You kept complaining that the house was too small.”
“You kept insisting that everything be
completely silent while he practiced concentrating, a bit difficult with small
ones crawling, toddling, and capering about.”
“Exactly, my love.” Easing himself up
into a sitting position with the help of the bench, Master Silas smiled at his
wife. “Now we shall have enough room. The house has five bedrooms, a kitchen,
dining room, parlor, workroom, and acres of land. Plenty of room for you to run
the household, Gatatea to posture, Eloine to read, Candra to disappear into
nature, and Zezilia and I to work. We would not be able to do all that on our
small estate in the north. Besides, I want Zezilia as far south as I can get
her. I don’t want to take the chance of her father changing his mind.”
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