Trusting Albatross
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Last published Sat, Oct 13, 2012
When sixteen year old Amara Redding recieves the news that her small family of three is moving to a horse farm, she sees it as anything but good. Remembering her childhood nightmare of a horse, she refuses her mothers attempts at reintroduing horses completely. That is, until she meets a scragly looking gelding named Albatross who not only steals her heart, but may help her to trust once again. And things get even more complicating when their new, sexy stable hand, Nate, moves in to work full time. Can she recover from the childhood disaster that tore her arm, and trust, apart? Or will she be stuck in the past forever?
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