Maryann Myers

Fiona likes her job as counselor at the Women's Crisis Center and she loves training Off Track Thoroughbreds during the evenings at the show barn where she lives. Some would say for a horse-loving women's rights activist, she has a perfect life, so why all of a sudden this quest, this epiphany? In a week's time Fiona's world is turned upside down. A nostalgic search for her birth mother takes her down country roads to a forgotten coal-mining town in Southern Ohio, where she uncovers decades old secrets and long lost relatives and comes face to face with a bully sheriff in this tug-at-your-heart magical adventure.

Ellie is a young woman, not so unlike any other young woman in today's world. She's in love, perhaps with the wrong man. She's self-supporting, if always being a week behind counts. She's kind and considerate, unless crossed. She's true to herself and others. She is the best of best friends, is attentive to her grandmother, and she loves horses. What is different about Ellie is the fact that she is followed through life by a flock of crows. Ellie's Crows depicts the last few weeks of her Grandma Betty's life in a nursing home; a very clean, antiseptic facility, with very little love to go around. Ellie is the sunshine in her days, and as death grows near, her companion throughout the long nights. Ellie's Crows is a celebration of life, and all it encompasses; laughter, tears, fear, triumph...and the realization that perhaps, just perhaps, happiness lies within.

Not a day goes by I don't think of her. I believe it would be hard for anyone to forget a woman like Tetch. Even in the dark I can still see her piercing blue eyes and full sensual lips, her smile, and her long wavy snow-white hair pulled back off her face. She's tall and leggy with a seductive curve to her spine and a sway to the way she walks, noticed mostly from behind. Her one shoulder is slightly higher than the other. Some would say it's from carrying the weight of the world all those years. More than likely it was from hauling one too many buckets of water. I don't think I'll ever forget the day she left either. She never even looked back. Trouble had a way of following her. & When a valuable Thoroughbred racehorse is stolen from the breeding shed one stormy night, Tetch becomes the prime suspect in this infamous and mysterious theft. Though she is known far and wide as a renowned empath, even those who support Tetch begin to wonder. Why won't she defend herself? Why would she rather go to jail than tell the truth? And ultimately, where is Quantro? "Horse lovers and animal activists unite to root for Tetch all the way " "Heartwarming and real." "Wow What a story "

A collection of heartwarming short stories by Kindle Bestselling Horse Racing Fiction author MaryAnn Myers A Thoroughbred's Dream - Horse lovers rejoice It is a rare treat to be able to experience the life and dreams of a Thoroughbred racehorse through that horse's own viewpoint. From sunup to sundown, from the beginning to the end, suspend your disbelief and go along for the magical ride. Son of Royalty's career is truly a dream come true. A Derby Dream - Bandaro is heavily favored to win the prestigious Ohio Derby. He is Ohio bred and foaled, he is the hometown favorite. His local trainer is expecting his arrival. The Derby is just six weeks away. But what odds-makers don't know, what even his trainer doesn't know is that Bandaro is.... Shipping Out in the Morning - Recognizable in this motley crew of old Thoroughbred racetrackers, are the people you know and love. The trainer, the groom, the outrider, the jockey and the exercise boy. Whatever happened to them? You'll find yourself smiling and nodding along as you listen to them talk about their careers at the racetrack, and you'll hold your breath along with them when you know what they are about to face tomorrow. A Horseman's Dream - When well-known horsewoman Janie Pritchard finds herself at heaven's door, will there be horses there to greet her; Thoroughbreds she knows and loves? Will she recognize them? Will they recognize her? Are they happy? Is there an end to the sadness, the mistreatment, the slaughter? Or is this all a dream? ************** Ferdinand was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1986 Kentucky Derby and 1987 Breeders' Cup Classic. He was the 1987 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year Winner. He was a champion. He entered stud in 1989 and was sold to a breeding farm in Japan in 1994. In 2002, when Ferdinand was no longer useful as a stud to his current owners, he was sent to slaughter. Ferdinand's tragic death became the catalyst for the Ferdinand Fee donation dedicated to keeping old racehorses alive. Ferdinand's legacy lives on....