The Gift of the Songbird

By Cynthianna

Hannah Cummings has big plans for her future. An invitation to sing at the mansion of the dashing Elisha Spielman on Thanksgiving Day promises to launch her music career and help her raise funds to receive further vocal training. It’s a most fortuitous invitation, and Hannah is grateful and excited to accept. However, one man seems to stand in her way.

Daniel March won’t have it. Hannah has always sung for their village’s Thanksgiving festival to support the orphanage, and this year should be no different.

Friends since long before the terrible war separated them, Hannah feels there is more to Daniel’s determination to change her mind than simply his need to get his own way.

Can a songbird help them count their blessings and come to see each other in a different light?

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Dec 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781487427535

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Hannah has the chance to sing for the richest family in town, but is it worth disappointing Daniel, her childhood friend, who seems to expect more of her?

Hannah Cummings has big plans for her future. An invitation to sing at the mansion of the dashing Elisha Spielman on Thanksgiving Day promises to launch her music career and help her raise funds to receive further vocal training. It’s a most fortuitous invitation, and Hannah is grateful and excited to accept. However, one man seems to stand in her way.

Daniel March won’t have it. Hannah has always sung for their village’s Thanksgiving festival to support the orphanage, and this year should be no different.

Friends since long before the terrible war separated them, Hannah feels there is more to Daniel’s determination to change her mind than simply his need to get his own way.

Can a songbird help them count their blessings and come to see each other in a different light?

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The Gift of the Songbird

Copyright © 2019 Cynthianna

ISBN: 978-1-4874-2753-5

Cover art by Martine Jardin

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The Gift of the Songbird

By

Cynthianna

Dedication

To all who give of themselves in the spirit of love.

Chapter One

"Who are you to tell me what to do? You are not my father, Daniel March!"

Hannah spun around on her heels with such force that the momentum of her full skirts nearly toppled her over. She recovered quickly and stomped down the snow-dusted village street toward home. She wouldn’t let on how much Daniel’s comments had stung. She wouldn’t let him know how close to the mark he’d been when he’d invoked the memory of her recently deceased father and how Pa might not approve of her choice.

She was alone in the world, but she was a grown woman. At twenty-three years of age, she could legally govern her own affairs even if she didn’t have the right to vote. Someday soon that would come, Hannah sincerely believed, taking solace from literature shared with her by a fellow former abolitionist.

Hannah, wait up! Daniel shouted. Listen to reason!

She felt like screaming but grit her teeth