Kirjahaku

In the mountains of northeast Washington, sixteen-year-old Hannah Gardner fights for her childhood dream-to race horses with her adopted Indian Aunt Spupaleena. Her mother fears Hannah will get hurt. Frustrated with her daughter's rebellious spirit, she threatens to send her away to Montana to live with an aunt Hannah's never met.To escape this perceived punishment, Hannah runs away to the Sinyekst village along the Columbia River to train with Spupaleena. After Hannah's first race, an Indian boy pulls her off her horse and spews threats. When Running Elk comes to her rescue, Hannah plans their life together and possible marriage. Will this be the pathway to her freedom?

Brimming with suspense and adventure, Captured Secrets, is a love story I'll not soon forget. An engrossing tale with all the twists and turns that make a contemporary Western so hard to put down. Debra Whiting Alexander, award-winning author of Zetty After her parents die in a horrific car accident, Sydney Moomaw is thrust into running their guest ranch in eastern Washington. She soon discovers that her parents were keeping secrets. Why is the ranch in serious debt? Why did her parents allow the insurance to lapse? Why didn't they tell her about it? And where are their wills? Sydney needs to figure out a way to save the ranch she loves before her sister sells it. Photographer Trey Hardy arrives at the ranch the same day Sydney's parents are killed. His working-vacation plans change when he decides to help Sydney save her ranch. But, his offers to help are met with resistance. Her stubbornness and independence are both maddening and alluring. Amid the tangle of finances, tensions with her sister, and her own grief and anger, Sydney begins receiving threatening notes. They must be from her abusive ex-husband, but he's in jail. Isn't he? When a teenager appears at the ranch insisting she is Sydney's daughter, Sydney finally realizes she's going to have to start trusting people to help her. Will Trey's plan work? Can they save her beloved ranch? Can she really have the life she's dreamed of?

A Road Trip to Redemption Rita Runninghorse is about to marry the wrong guy. She has to get away from him. Now. She flees to a guest ranch in Eastern Washington State that offers a safe haven for women in need only to find the owner on a month-long speaking tour. Robert Elliot has one thing on his mind: bronc riding. The Indian National Finals Rodeo is within reach, and he's not about to let anything ruin his chances of going pro. Not even the woman he finds asleep in the stall of their rankest horse. When Rita's fianc discovers where she's hiding out, she takes Robert's offer to go with him on the road and prays her fianc gives up the hunt. Saddled together, Rita and Robert must rely on each other as they go on the road to keep her alive.

Can they find her son in time? Sophie Cayes is on the road to success as an artist. Until her ex-husband threatens to sue for full custody of their son. Upon learning of a guest ranch in Eastern Washington that keeps a room open for women in need, she grabs her son and bolts. Although Chad Davis loves starting colts on the Seven Tine Guest Ranch, his goal is to have his own spread. Everything's on course until a woman and her preschool son show up. He's not thrilled about helping out. Until the boy comes up missing. On his watch.Along with a tribal cop, they head back to Montana in search of the boy, knowing his dad was the one who kidnapped him. Sophie prays they find him before her ex-husband and his new wife go on the run. Taking her son with them.

Charnaye Toulou has her sights pinned on winning the World Famous Suicide horse race during the Omak Stampede. The purse will help ease a financial burden of her paraplegic father, worn out mother, and ill grandfather. But more than that, she wants the respect earned from becoming "King of the Hill." This race has been a long time rite of passage for male Natives. Charnaye is up for the challenge to prove females too can be awarded a warrior status as times are changing. But when bully Hagan Hurst chokes her and causes her self-esteem to plummet, she hooks up with her Okanogan relatives and a horse that can take her the distance. Anonymous threatening letters find her and they all point to Hagan. Her father and mother become overly protective, but she meets a woman who has run the race, jumpstarting her confidence. The day after Charnaye graduates from high school, she jumps in with cousin and trainer Craig Stuart and heads for her relative's Omak ranch. And so do the letters.Charnaye begins the rigorous training it takes to become "King of the Hill," or in her case, "Queen," and tries to figure out who is behind the threating letters. She combats fear and anxiety, fighting to fulfill this rite of passage.

After fighting with her sister, Spupaleena bolted from their Sinyekst lodge into the dead of winter. She didn't know where she was going but knew she could no longer live at home. Haunted by the deaths of her mother and baby brother, she ran until she'd run too far. Upon discovering Spupaleena's body, Phillip Gardner, a trapper, brings her home to his cabin. His wife, Elizabeth, does her best to help heal Spupaleena, although with a broken heart and a mangled body, she is not likely to survive. But when Phillip doesn't return from a trip into Hudson Bay's Fort Colvile, a pregnant Elizabeth and a weak Spupaleena are forced to find strength in each other. In this story of hardship, grief, and eventual hope, Spupaleena learns all she needed was a change of heart.

Spupaleena's equine journey lingers as the Sinyekst teen continues to fight for her passion to raise and train racehorses. Yet she takes her dream a step further, hoping to breed her stallions to the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Colvile's mares and sell a few foals along the way. Her father persists to thrust her toward expected cultural behaviors. But she has other plans. And they do not include a husband. Nor a fellow racer bent on making sure she does not race, no matter the cost.Elizabeth Gardner remains torn between discouraging Spupaleena from the dangers of horse racing and encouraging her friend's vision. To make matters worse, the woman has her hands full wrangling an infant, a toddler, and her five-year-old daughter who wants to race, "Just like Auntie Spuppy " When disaster strikes, terror shifts into courage, heartache melds into forgiveness, calamity slips into hope, and one young woman learns the true meaning of family. This story from award-winning author Carmen Peone will tug your heartstrings as you gallop the rugged trails along the Columbia River into uncalculated Indian Country.

They are so close... Can Christmas Dreams Come True? Mandie Sellars is a single mom and ranch cook with a dream: to become Seven Tine Ranch's event planner. She grabs her chance when a last-minute Christmas Eve wedding is booked. There's just one problem . . . she's planning her own wedding at the same time. Hudson Piccolo is a dissatisfied small-town lawyer who has finally been offered his dream job--on the other side of the state. But accepting it would mean uprooting Mandie and her daughter just as life seems to be falling into place. With conflicting dreams, and a wedding countdown ticking, can their love survive the season? A heart-warming Western Christmas romance brimming with holiday magic, faith, and second chances.