We were, finally, on the trail again. At the first river crossing, I noticed that the current was unusually calm. Even the water level was lower than usual. I climbed down a very steep bank and was focused on my footing. It had escaped my attention that there was not an exit on the opposite side. Instead, there was a steep cliff. I was extremely nervous walking in the middle of the river. I felt trapped! I scanned the landscape for a way out, and that is when I first saw them. High on the ...

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Love is born on a large farm in Hinckley, Ohio where she spends the first year of her life. She lives the next ten years with a family who resides a few miles from the place of her birth. The first year is tough for the filly. She gets into one scrape after another at her new home. Her saving grace is her love for a small child, She becomes an accomplished and well traveled youth horse.

Living with Multiple Sclerosis is like a maze, you never know what to expect around the next corner, roses or thorns

Sox finds himself in an alien world the night he is born. His mother is there with him and he quickly adapts. His Mom answers all his questions about his new environment. She explains things, and reassures him. Everything is a new experience for Sox.Little Emma is his best friend.Emma is living with her grandmother until her mother returns home from deployment Not used to living in a rural area she is very lonely and feels like a duck out of water. Little Sox brightens up her...

This issue of Fiction Vortex is full of people who make bad decisions. Warning: don't mistake the characters in these stories for good role models. There's a guy who sabotages the future of his family's legacy out of spite, a woman who tells the world the apocalypse is coming, a man who signs his life away, and a married couple that thinks time travel can save them from their grief.FICTION VORTEX:Founded in the 277th year of the Takolatchni Dynasty, Fiction...

Four holiday romance novellas about the Wong siblings!Book 1: A Match Made for ThanksgivingBook 2: A Second Chance Road Trip for ChristmasBook 3: A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New YearBook 4: A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day

A Thanksgiving rom-com with lots of food and interfering family!Advertising executive Nick Wong enjoys living in Toronto. He loves late nights partying and taking women back to his penthouse. And so it is with great reluctance that he returns to his boring hometown of Mosquito Bay for Thanksgiving.This year, however, is even worse than usual. His parents and grandparents, frustrated with the lack of weddings in the family, have invited blind dates for him a...

Felicity Cartwright is ambitious, fierce, and has everything to prove. But when she arrives in Al-Harah on business for her new tech start-up, she’s mistaken for the future queen and taken against her will.Zakir ibn Rashiq Al-Nazari, ruling sheikh of Al-Shakhra, needs of a wife. Inheriting the throne after tragedy strikes his family, his government and people demand heirs, and hope for the future…Once Zakir chooses Felicity as his bride prize, she is told she cannot resist…...

The amazing story of Australia's first surgeon and the boy he adopted.It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in.With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the colonists to keep their precarious grip on a hostile wilderness. And ye...

What if the most dangerous thing you did this weekend was go for a run?***On a bright spring Saturday, hundreds gather in a park as usual for their weekly community 5k run.An hour later, one of the runners is dead.The next week a runner training for a 10k event dies. And then another, a half marathon runner…The police are baffled. The pattern is the same, the deaths can’t be coincidental. Is there a murderer picking off victims one r...

How deep into the darkness will she have to go to help bring him into the light?Oil baronness Lily Harkness isn't so much steel magnolia as titanium cactus. She's used to living in a man's world and when she plays, she plays to win. She wants exclusive oil rights to ensure her company remains at the top and she's not walking away empty handed.Sheikh Isma'il al Zahara rules his country his way. Always in command, he has his own plans for his country's oil and it's not just a...