Mechanical Dreams

Mechanical Dreams

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Last published Tue, Apr 12, 2016

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After winning 11 races in a row, one small mistake, changed his life forever. For Sean Collins, Mechanical Horse racing is all he has known. From when his father brought him to watch his first race when he was 7 years old, to when he was rushed to a hospital after a deadly injury. Unlike Sean, for Mia Towers, Mechanical Horses is all she wants to escape. She was dragged into a race by her sister, who drooled over the competitors, and watched a man get thrown off his mount and run over by the hundred horses behind; leaving a bloody, ripped carcass of what used to be a young man in the dirt. She has sworn on her life to never look at another Mechanical Horse again. When her friends decide to go to one of the Races, Mia can't be the only one left out. She decides to go. What happens at this race could either make or break her whole life.

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