Josie Mae gets to the grounds first. She has every year since she was nine, and not because anybody made a rule about it.The Reunion Rodeo is the first one of the season at Cloverdale, and it is the one where everybody comes back. Seven months of school and winter and being somebody else, and then the rigs come through the gate and the ramps come down and there they are.Codie, who lives ninety miles away and somehow hears Cloverdale news first, and who does not ask before s...

Quinn Bianchi notices everything.She reads every wall at every rodeo. She can tell you what a girl she has never met ran in poles three weeks ago at an arena two hours over the ridge. She knows what her horse is asking her, and she knows when she isn't answering.What she has never once had to work out is a boy.He hands her a coffee at the water station on a Saturday morning, in front of everybody, and says her name at the end when he didn't have to. By that afternoo...

Tawny Talltrees has never been to Harlow Ranch Arena. Everybody else has, about a hundred times, and every one of them says the same thing when she asks what it's like - that she'll see.What she sees, standing at a fence on Friday night, is nine horses out of eleven put their heads up in the same twenty feet of alley and look at the same thing. Nobody else is counting. And when Tawny works out what's up there under the eave of the announcer's box, and does the right thing and tells...

Codie Peterson knows a rodeo weekend the way other kids know their own street. Cloverdale in the spring: horses off the trailer, events to run, camp business to keep straight, and three friends waiting in the room at the top of the announcer's box. She can do all of it without thinking.Then they ask her to sing the national anthem at grand entry.Codie is the loud one. She talks to everybody, she is not scared of anything, and everyone in camp will tell you so. Which is exac...

A heartbreaking WW2 saga, perfect for all fans of Sheila Jeffries and Katie Flynn.As the drums of war begin to beat louder on the continent, and life becomes more dangerous in cities, seventeen year-old Jeannie McIver leaves the comfort of her aunt's house in Glasgow, to head to the wilds of the Scottish Uplands to start life as a Land Girl.Jeannie soon falls in love with life on the busy Scottish hill farm, despite all of its hardships and challenges. She f...

A heart-breaking saga set against the backdrop of World War 1, perfect for all fans of Katie Flynn.In a remote hill farm in beautiful Scotland, Ellen and her father Duncan are enjoying a peaceful life away from the belching mills and hustle and bustle of the growing towns. In time they're joined by rugged farmhand Tom, come to lend some muscle to Ellen's ageing father, who has begun to find sheep farming hard to manage alone. Almost inevitably romance grows between...

1945.After the Second World War, Ellen and her daughter Netta make the journey from Germany back to Scotland. Nestled in the hills of the Southern Uplands is the farm where Ellen grew up – the home she left to be with the only man she's ever loved. She is still haunted by her memories... and the secrets she dare not share with anyone.Having grown up in Freiburg, farm life is new and exciting to Netta. Determined to be useful, she offers to help new shepherd...

In 1806, four-year-old William Wiley Joy was sitting on a corral rail in the Carolina backcountry watching his father break a colt when Seminole raiders came out of the trees. By nightfall he was three days gone. His parents survived. They never found him.He grew up in Spanish Florida as Moves With Horses, the adopted son of a woman named Morning Light, raised among the people who had taken him. He learned their language until his English fell away entirely. He learned their land, ...

She failed English. Multiple times. She grew up poor in a town you've never heard of, in a family where nothing was handed to you and everything had to be earned the hard way. Nobody gave her a roadmap, a trust fund, or permission.She built it anyway.Write Your Own Damn Story is the raw, real, and sometimes profane memoir-meets-battle-plan from Dee Yates - lifelong entrepreneur, photographer, publisher, author, and speaker. Over decades, Dee built multiple business...

A heart-breaking saga set against the backdrop of World War 1, perfect for all fans of Katie Flynn.In a remote hill farm in beautiful Scotland, Ellen and her father Duncan are enjoying a peaceful life. In time they're joined by rugged farmhand Tom, come to lend some muscle to Ellen's ageing father. Almost inevitably romance grows between Ellen and the new arrival but once married however, Ellen discovers that Tom has a brutish side to his character. As war in Europe spreads, she be...

After the Second World War, Ellen and her daughter Netta make the journey from Germany back to Scotland. Nestled in the hills of the Southern Uplands is the farm where Ellen grew up – the home she left to be with the only man she's ever loved. She is still haunted by her memories...and the secrets she dare not share with anyone. Having grown up in Freiburg, farm life is new and exciting to Netta. Determined to be useful, she offers to help new shepherd Andrew Cameron. But doing so might pu...

As the drums of war begin to beat louder on the continent, 17-year-old Jeannie McIver heads to the wilds of the Scottish Uplands to start life as a Land Girl. Jeannie soon falls in love with life on the busy Scottish hill farm. She even finds her interest piqued by the attractive Tam, the son of the neighbouring farmer. But even in the barren hills, they can't avoid the hell of war, and Jeannie's idyllic life starts to crumble.