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A rogue. An outlaw. An unlikely hero. Viking is the sole offspring of a savage and vicious mare. The colt is the pride of the stable until his dam kills a groom in her stall. Viking is a painful reminder of the tragedy, and so he is sold off. The black colt has a coarse face and a mean curl to his nostrils, but he is beautifully proportioned with magnificent gaits. With his teeth and thick weapon of a tail, Viking brutalizes everyone who handles him and humiliates the best trainers in the world until Anne O'Neil tries him. The first time she rides him, she declares she will not buy him if he was the last apple in the barrel. The second time, she rides him as if he is as sensitive as one of her Thoroughbreds, and she is amazed by the results. Kindness and sugar turn out to be the keys to Viking's heart. Viking and Anne become rising stars until a cruel and brutal trainer seeks to crush his spirit. A Horse Named Viking follows the life journey of an incredible, unforgettable horse.
Rear ending a reindeer, even a faux one, is a bad start to any morning, especially when that woman in a reindeer costume is your first love, the one you’ve never gotten over.Erik or “Erik the Wall” Engen, formerly one of the most feared and admired goalies in the International Hockey League, now an executive in his family’s holiday ornament company, has returned to his hometown of Noelle, Wisconsin during its annual Nutcracker Festival. It’s his job to evaluate the prospects of the Engen Nutcracker Factory, the company founded by his beloved grandfather. After travelling the world creating murals, artist Stella Larson has returned to Noelle as well. Erik and Stella soon realize the old feelings between them linger, but she can’t seem to forget or forgive him for breaking her heart a decade before. With a little hope and some Christmas magic, can Erik make his way back to the woman he always carried with him in his heart?
Sometimes fate punches you right in the gut. That’s how it feels when you meet your destiny, whether a horse or a person. Max Halle was light-headed and short of breath watching the young stallion named Banjo gallop around the indoor arena. This is happening. This is real. He knew he and this red bay horse had come together for a reason. Banjo was an unusually beautiful horse, a bright red bay with a black mane and tail. His front legs were solidly black, while his hind ones sported short socks with some ermine spots. He had a large, irregularly shaped star on his forehead between his well-spaced eyes. This horse is going to change my life. Max felt this truth in every fiber of his being. A special animal can alter your life’s journey and even lead you to your true love.
Ellen Sanz is angry at the world, and she wants nothing to do with horses. Before her mother’s accident, they’d had a great life. Her mother, Linda, was a successful show jumper. Ellen had attended virtual school, and they’d travelled between international horse competitions. Everything had changed when Linda suffered a catastrophic riding accident. Ellen has been her mother’s caretaker in the year since. They’ve been forced to move to Linda’s parents’ hobby farm in the Maryland countryside. Here, Ellen finds herself irresistibly drawn to Lemon Meringue, nicknamed Tandy, a show ring sour palomino rescue mare, as well as to Joel, a cute and horse crazy guy. Can Ellen and Tandy let go of the pain of their pasts to embrace a new life and find that special connection?
While remodeling their old farm house in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a boy and his father find an old diary. The journal belongs to a Sevy Anderson, a fourteen-year-old boy who lives in the 1880s, the lumberjack era. Sevy Anderson's father breaks his leg in a sawmill accident, and so the fourteen-year-old must take his place with the rough and tumble lumberjacks and river rats who harvested the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota. The men of the Northwoods live hard and on the edge, and Sevy must prove his courage and his worth in the company of legends. Will he become the man he so longs to be? Will the other men ever accept him? And will he even survive his first winter in the Northwoods?
Skylar Connelly wants to know what happened to her sister, Maia, who vanished without a trace in the Florida Keys. Unwilling to accept the authorities' dismissal of the case, she conceals her relationship to the missing girl and takes a position at Casa del Mar, a magnificent, seaside estate owned by Martin Escalle, a slick entrepreneur whose business interests, she suspects, include illegal activities. Luke White, the captain of the yacht named Calypso and Escalle's right hand man, challenges and fascinates her with his combination of surfer good looks, bad boy charm, and stiletto sharp mind, but is he also a killer? Dare she trust him? Her heart and soul will accept no less.
In this uplifting collection, you'll find true stories about the day-to-day minutiae and miracles of being the mom to a preschooler: from finding peace and purpose in what can seem (and look!) like chaos; from solving sibling rivalry to celebrating sibling revelry; from the sorrow of letting go to enjoying some personal independence as your "big kid" goes off to school.
Blake Anderson thought he had his life together. When his father dies, Blake’s troubled past catches up with him. Selling his father’s dilapidated cabin becomes Blake’s only priority, but the place is bursting with painful memories. Alex Taylor, the restoration contractor Blake hires to do the work, immediately recognizes the camp’s potential, but she’s not so sure about the reticent Blake. Beneath her feisty façade, however, Alex is hiding a secret of her own. Together, Blake and Alex restore the cabin to its original beauty, piece by piece. As they unearth secrets of the past, they stumble upon a tapestry of corruption and crime spanning decades. Compelled to find the truth, Blake and Alex must confront their inner demons, as well as some real-life criminals, as they struggle to overcome their pasts and learn to love again.
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Autumn Sanders is looking for a husband and answers an ad online for men living in a small farming town in Minnesota looking for wives. Upon entering Harmon Junction, she meets handsome farmer, Paul Michaels, and they immediately get off on the wrong foot. Besides, he’s not one of the three men she’s scheduled to meet. When Autumn’s pay from her job doesn’t arrive in her bank account to pay the hotel bill, Paul steps in. He pays her hotel bill and takes her home to his farm where she cooks and does home and farm chores to pay him back. Autumn stumbles through learning how to do ranch chores, learning how to run the washing machine, cook for a crew of ranch hands but soon falls in lov...