Sweet Americana Sweethearts: siblings

The sisters of SILENT HARMONY, book 2 in the Lockets and Lace Collection, won my heart as I wrote. I always have wonderful heroes because I write with my beloved husband and he makes sure they are manly. We both attended the DFW Writers Workshop every Wednesday night for fifteen years, barely missing a handful of read-and-critique meetings. There, we learned our craft from published mentors we came to love like John McCord and Jack Ballas and Don Whittington.

The baby sister, Melody became my heroine, though the eldest Lucinda, a widow and single parent of the four-year-old deaf Harmony, proved herself strong and kept her little family afloat in the days following the Civil War. Poor neglected, and no-reason-to-be-important-or-loved, middle sister Servilia, kept a sharp tongue and wielded it on a regular basis. Sibling rivalry proved common in the manless household, no matter how hard Lucy tried.

They all loved Ezekiel though----the new preacher-teacher come to town to establish a school for the deaf just outside of DeKalb, Texas, at his mother's old home place. Handsome, he was. And eligible, too, but the first day, he set his cap for the Parker sister who'd smitten him, and the other two had no chance.

Here's an excerpt from an early chapter.

“Uhhhn!” The baby stuck her hand out toward the bowl.

Her mother cocked her head, lifted one brow, and shot the little girl what Melody called 'the look.' A warning, but of love and disdain mixed with a tinge of mirth.

The four-year-old rocked her head side to side, lifted her chin a smidgen, and crossed her arms over her chest with a mischievous grin. Oh, how she loved that sparkle in Harmony's sky blue eyes.

The baby moved one hand enough to pat over her heart.

“That's better.” Her mother spooned on honey, stirred it in, then poured a little cream over the porridge. “And now you may have your breakfast.” Lucy slid the steaming bowl of oatmeal across the table then glanced toward Melody. “So, you really think sending her to that school might be worth the money?”

“Oh, yes. Absolutely. Of course I do.”

“Well, I don't see how in the world you could ever justify it.” The sourpuss at the far end of the table always had to put her two negative cents in.

And that's Servilia for you. But I so enjoyed her correspondence with Zeke's cousin in Pennsylvania, Rupert. What great fun it was!

My jacket copy--did you know authors write the jacket copy? I try hard to write what the story is about, not what happens in it. All the while praying my story gives God glory! That's all important to me.
"God uses all things together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.
Orphaned by the Civil War, three sisters struggle to keep the family farm solvent. Eldest, Lucinda must mother her deaf daughter, Harmony and mediate between her dueling siblings, Servilia and Melody. The sisters’ fragile truce is shattered by the arrival of the handsome Ezekiel Sheffield, coming to establish a school for the deaf. Miracles, mayhem, and marriage ensue, but nothing ever comes easy."

How'd I do? Did I whet your appetite?

I believe my strongest writing skill lies in my characters and developing them to be real people to me . . . and therefore, real to my readers, too. I love these sisters. I do. And I hope you'll find them real and worthy of your love, too. I'm always blessed when reviews come in! Running seventy-percent five-star reviews and another twenty-percent four-star . . . leaves me humbled.

I'm blessed that the Lord led me to be a part of this collection, with eight other sweet authors who wrote their historical romances with a locket from a Bavarian jeweler in St. Joseph, Missouri, Wilhelm and his wife Bridget. That's who connects our stories, and we all have an important piece of lace as well.
I pray you'll enjoy SILENT HARMONY and that you'll help it rise to #1 if only for today by getting yourself a copy and maybe one for a friend. That'd be excellent!

GIVEAWAY: Thank you and be blessed! I'll offer an ARC copy to a commenter here who tells me a story of YOUR siblings!

BIO: Caryl McAdoo prays her story brings God glory, and a quick scroll through her novels’ rankings by Christian readers attests to the Father’s faithfulness. She loves writing almost as much as singing the new songs He gives her—look her up on YouTube to hear a few. Her high school sweetheart husband won her heart fifty-one years ago, and now they share four children and seventeen grandsugars. Ron and Caryl live in the woods south of Clarksville, seat of Red River County in far Northeast Texas, waiting expectantly for God to open the next door.

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