Some call me hope. Some say I bring luck. But to me, I'm just looking for the one I'll spend the rest of my life with. Abandoned as a foal, I was taught by myself, my instincts. I saw many tamed horses with great companions, who they dearly loved. I've seen many go wrong though. So I'm searching. For the right one. Alone in the wilderness, the traveling paint filly, looking for her saviour. In the years of many Wars, horses are much wanted. To tame, to ride, to die in battle. She must find the right person, or face a horrible fate on the battlefield...

Ok, putting on my serious face (shaking dust off it first)... This is a totally true story about my little horse who made history by surviving one of the world's deadliest diseases. So yes, it's got a very happy ending, even though I had to give him mouth to mouth a few times to restart his breathing each time his heart stopped... (to his nose actually) Dozens of vets told me I had to put him down, but I could see in his little brown eyes that he really wanted to live, so I tried my hardest, night and day, to save him. Our story is now taught in veterinary schools to help save more animals... if your pet has ever been to a vet for an operation, then your pet has already benefited from our story. (This case has also been studied by many students of human medicine, because thousands of people still die of this terrible disease every year, especially in third world countries, and where mothers are forced to give birth in unclean places like supermarkets or the back seats of cars. To catch it, all you have to do is scratch yourself. It happened at a very turbulent time of my life, when I was 16 and graduating highschool, getting my first job and trying to cope with a friend who tried to kill herself. So for passing time during my darkest days, I went from counting sleeps, to counting pay packets, to counting tears - one for each painful or really joyous day... hence the title: thirteen tears. Also, do you like the cover? I learned how to paint with an airbrush, just so I could make my own cover. Oh, and special thanks to @PinkPanther101 for introducing me to Wattpad, and to @yme123 for making me feel so welcome and giving me so much great advice about chapters, formatting and learning my way around! Big hugs and sloppy kisses of thanks!!!

Aria is a young shape shifter who has big dreams as a child. But when her and her brother are off playing in their young equestrian forms the Kings men catch Aria. Locked up in the Kings stables, where guards are watching every minute of every day and night, proves to her that she can not escape. One night when she is finally gets her chance to escape the Kings son Alex catches her shifting. Can Aria convince Alex that she isn`t a Witch, and that he needs to help her return home?

A gifted princess. A special horse. A quest for the truth. At sixteen years old, Cassia would rather spend her days in the royal stables than in the royal court. But as the eldest child of King Robet and Queen Sarahann she obediently performs her duties as the Princess of Karah. Her safe world changes forever when her father is murdered in the neighboring kingdom of Vespera. Cassia grapples with his loss as her mother prepares her for her new role as queen. Her first task - she must travel to Vespera to marry a prince she barely knows to fulfill the treaty her father signed just before his death. Nothing is as simple as it seems with political intrigues and unusual powers shadowing Cassia on her search to find out who killed her father and why.