Shamrock Stables Series

All Sierra McElroy wants for Christmas is a guarantee the horses at Shamrock Stable will be home for the holidays. Her mother has decided they can’t keep every horse and should sell some. Now, what can Sierra do to save her friends and Christmas for everyone? A SHAMROCK STABLE NOVEL 1. No Horse Wanted 2. No Time for Horses 3. Nothing But Horses (coming 2014)

Champion show rider, Dani Wilkerson, loves her Quarter Horse mare, Lady, and wants to ride Western or ‘cowgirl’ style with her friends at Shamrock Stable. However, her glory-seeking parents have other plans for Dani that include three-day eventing and an eventual career in Olympic competition. They think all her riding activities should support this goal. While she wishes they understood her need to express her individuality, she also hates to disappoint them. Then she discovers their plans to enroll her in an elite boarding school, sell Lady, and buy her an award-winning, event horse. Stunned by the betrayal, Dani knows she must stop them somehow. She isn’t a mere extension of their egos. When she fights back, she learns just how far they will go to achieve their ends, but how can she possibly defeat them?

Sixteen-year-old Vicky Miller feels overloaded since her parents filed for divorce. Her mother got the house and a new job. Her step-dad has the new car and a new girlfriend. Vicky has the five kids, her younger half-brothers and sisters who range from 18 months to 10 years old to look after and her own life now comes second to their needs and wants. It’s been six months of house-cleaning, baby-sitting, cooking, non-stop laundry and Vicky is through waiting for her life to improve. She has plans for her sophomore year at Lincoln High and they don’t include being an unpaid servant. If it takes a constant battle to attend her riding classes and complete her internship at Shamrock Stable, she’s ready to fight for her goal to be the best natural horse trainer around. Her parents may not have time for her to be with horses, but she has dreams no one can steal. Why should she give them away? But will keeping them mean she loses her family?

* * * FINALIST IN THE 2015 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS * * * In this award-winning story, the only thing that Robin Gibson wants for her sixteenth birthday is a 1968 Presidential Blue Mustang. Following their family tradition, what her parents promise her is a horse of her own, one with four legs, not four wheels. Mom competes in endurance riding, Dad does calf roping, her older brother games and her older sister loves three day eventing, but Robin proudly says she doesn't do horses. She'll teach her controlling family a lesson by bringing home the worst horse she can find, a starved, abused two-year-old named Twaziem. Robin figures she'll nurse him back to health, sell him, and have the money for her car. Rescuing and rehabilitating the Morab gelding might be a bigger challenge than what she planned. He comes between her and her family. He upsets her friends when she looks after his needs first. Is he just an investment or is he part of her future? And if she lets him into her heart will win or will she lose? It isn't much of a change, but it should defuse that 2 star review and help promote more sales. What do you think?

Sixteen-year-old Cicely Ellis ‘knows’ her parents never wanted her and abandoned her for new lives where they don’t have to deal with a kid like her and she should be grateful to the aunt and uncle who put a roof over her head. However, while they didn’t leave her homeless, they don’t understand the passion she has for horses, much less the dream to be a world-famous, international equestrian star. They won’t pay for lessons, much less the training her goals require. So, Cicely works at Salmon Pond Stable, watering, mucking, cleaning tack, grooming, saddling – performing any horsey chore for the barn owners just to have the chance to ‘catch’ a ride on the horses which makes her a ‘catch rider’ and causes some of the regular students to consider her their personal groom or servant. When the woman who sponsors Cicely to show her Paint mare, Pallas Athena moves the ‘horse of her heart’ to Shamrock Stable, she goes too. Now, she has new things to learn and they don’t all have to do with horses or riding, but also the secret of the parents who left her behind years ago. Everything comes with a price, and nobody rides for “free” in this world, but will the cost she’s expected to pay be too high?