Finding the Good

Kids, Animals, Horses, Fiction, Love and Romance, Teen
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Author: Tanya Patterson ISBN: 9781462066599
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: December 12, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Tanya Patterson
ISBN: 9781462066599
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: December 12, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Seventeen-year-old Jackie Gates is more accustomed to wearing designer clothing and possessing expensive gadgets and electronics than wondering how shell eat and pay next months rent. But she knows that running away and leaving Fort Worth, Texasand her former life behindis what she needs to do.

Life in Castlewood, Ontario, is tough, but her goal of earning the local scholarship to veterinary school is in her sights. Her passion for horses and her need to make money lead her to a much-needed job as a farmhand at Starcross Farms. Its here she befriends Dusty Houghton, a local boy struggling with school and his parents recent divorce. She also finds herself face-to-face with the very reason she ran awayher horse, Texas.

After one year of being mistreated and abused, Texas is far from being the horse she used to know. Certain she can mend the damage of his former abuse, she struggles to keep the balance of her new life from tipping into the old one. Just when shes close to finding a solution to keeping the job she needs, the horse she loves, and the boy she has grown too close to, a tragic accident threatens it all. The accident jeopardizes not only her life but adds to the risk of uncovering secretsand the unasked questions from her past.

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Seventeen-year-old Jackie Gates is more accustomed to wearing designer clothing and possessing expensive gadgets and electronics than wondering how shell eat and pay next months rent. But she knows that running away and leaving Fort Worth, Texasand her former life behindis what she needs to do.

Life in Castlewood, Ontario, is tough, but her goal of earning the local scholarship to veterinary school is in her sights. Her passion for horses and her need to make money lead her to a much-needed job as a farmhand at Starcross Farms. Its here she befriends Dusty Houghton, a local boy struggling with school and his parents recent divorce. She also finds herself face-to-face with the very reason she ran awayher horse, Texas.

After one year of being mistreated and abused, Texas is far from being the horse she used to know. Certain she can mend the damage of his former abuse, she struggles to keep the balance of her new life from tipping into the old one. Just when shes close to finding a solution to keeping the job she needs, the horse she loves, and the boy she has grown too close to, a tragic accident threatens it all. The accident jeopardizes not only her life but adds to the risk of uncovering secretsand the unasked questions from her past.

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