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Ten-year-old Miranda Stevens approaches the fifth-grade classroom with trepidation. She must face the same snobby classmates that she met when she came to Montana at the end of the last school year to attend this small rural school, and worst of all, Christopher Bergman, the classroom bully who takes special delight in making Miranda's life miserable. Friendship, loyalty, courage, and lesson's learned the hard way are all part of Miranda's story as she lives with her grandparents on their dairy farm. If only she had a horse of her very own, she thinks, nothing else would matter.

On probation, living in a group home, and doing her best to turn her life around, Danni Beaumont, a high-school junior, is suddenly plunged into a nightmare that seemingly won't end when a gang rape results in an unwanted pregnancy. Her perpetrators threaten harm to her beloved little sister if she does anything that might expose them. Shame and despair overwhelm her as there is no one in authority and no friend she can turn to. Warning: Rape and abortion issues: Not for young children. (Danni was introduced in the novel, The Body in the Freezer (2014)

Miranda Stevens decides being a teenager and in junior high school is complicated. Her best friend's seventeen-year-old cousin comes to live with Laurie—and to break up her friendship with Miranda. A new boy in school wants all of Miranda's attention when she would rather be riding horses with Christopher. But Chris is spending his time with Jody, the new girl in their class. Miranda much prefers the world of horses. But that gets complicated, too, when she is only half-owner—and not the controlling half—of Starlight, the fastest race horse in the country. She can't keep Mr. Taylor ...

Twelve-year-old Miranda Stevens is late for her parents' wedding because of an early-morning mishap while riding her beloved black stallion, Starlight. Her family has grown with the miraculous return of her father and the addition of two foster children who have been left in her mother's care. Miranda and her foster sister, Margot go with Margot's father for a birthday surprise that turn ominous. Later Mom and Grandma treat them to a trail ride at a resort and Margot falls in love with the homely little horse she rides. When they learn that the horse is destined for the cannery, Miranda ...

To race or not to race? That is the question Heavenly Acres Horse Ranch owner, Miranda Stevens, struggles to answer. “Racing is what your horses were bred for,” Higgins, her old friend and trainer, reminds her. Miranda must decide whether to risk injury or deprive Starliight's offspring of what they seem to love? What if her boyfriend, and co-owner of the fastest horses disagrees with her? Higgins encourages Miranda and her boyfriend, Chris, to enter their jointly-owned horses into some big races in preparation for the Kentucky Derby and helps them raise the money to get started. A ...

n this 4th book of the Starlight series, Miranda and her classmates become lost in a cave. Miranda saves Grandpa from being killed by a loco cow, but not before he is injured. Mr. Taylor hires a jockey, expecting Miranda to teach Starlight to accept him. Mom plans to marry Adam Barber, Miranda's worst enemy. Wishing on Shooting Star, Queen's foal, seems to bring amazing answers to Miranda's problems.

Plagued with foreboding, fourteen-year-old Miranda Stevens wonders what could go wrong. For starters, her best friend, Laurie, has to cancel their long-planned weekend. Even after Miranda talks her parents into letting her go to the Crow Fair without Laurie, the feeling persists. Miranda goes with an old horse trainer and friend, Higgins, and her friend, Christopher, to Crow Agency, Montana, where she plans to race three horses. Still, the sense of impending doom haunts Miranda until they get to the fair. But as she shares in the excitement of the Crow encampment, the feeling disappears—...

This sequel to Miranda and Starlight reveals further adventure and bonding between ten-year-old Miranda Stevens and the two-year-old black stallion, Starlight. In this volume, Miranda once again takes it upon herself to rescue Starlight from a madman, not once, but twice. When the Shady Hills Ranch groom, Higgins, is injured in a fall, Mr. Taylor hires a stranger named Hicks to take his place. Miranda finds Hicks abusing Starlight, but it's her word against his. Mr. Taylor seems willing to get rid of Starlight because the stranger says the horse is loco. In order to save Starlight, Miranda ...

11-year-old Miranda Stevens secretly trains Starlight, the 3-year-old black stallion, whose wounds have healed. Riding him on Mr. Taylor's race track, Miranda proves that he is the fastest horse Shady Hills Ranch has ever seen. But she must keep it secret. If his owner, Cash Taylor, finds out, he will keep enter him in races all over the country. If Starlight wins, he will become top sire on Mr.Taylor's ranch, which is famous for its black race horses. If that happens, Mr. Taylor will never let Miranda buy him. Not knowing that Miranda is already riding Starlight, who has recovered without ...

Sixteen-year-old Miranda Stevens's herd of horses has grown since she inherited her black stallion, Starlight, and a few others from the late Cash Taylor. Her father helps her realize she can’t expect her parents and grandparents to keep footing the bill for her growing family of thoroughbreds. She must find a way to make her horse ranch pay. She loves every one of her horses and can’t think of one she’d be willing to part with. Racing is not a sure thing, she learns, and can cost more in money and heartache than it yields. She will have to sell some to keep others, and that’s the ...

Debra Randall, the lovely and talented heiress of the “richest man in California” is missing. Garrigan, the San Francisco Police Department detective, isn’t any closer to solving the mystery than he was two weeks ago when he began. The three most important men in her life seem to be withholding information that could help. He wonders why.

When a Montana rancher is called to serve his country—and doesn’t come back—how will his family cope? See the answer through the eyes of 10-year-old Danny Branahan. Danny’s father went to war in Iraq and was killed in action. Danny struggles with the various stages of grief as he remembers good times with his father. With his vivid imagination, he turns Dragon, the horse his father gave him, into a means of escaping the reality he cannot accept. To add to his grief, financial problems caused by his father’s death force Danny, his mother, and sister to leave their Montana ranch. ...

Two girls happen to be in the same place on their thirteenth birthdays at exactly the same time except for the difference of a hundred years. Emily from the twentieth century and Madison from the twenty-first are suddenly spun through a time barrier to end up in each others' time and place. They must each make huge adjustments to adapt to such different cultures. But their main concern is how to get back to the time and family where they belong.