The Horse Whisperer

Nicholas Evens

Romance

In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl is out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old grace Maclean and her horse, Pilgrim, survive. But the impact on their lives and the lives of those who love them is devastating.

Grace is the only child of a prominent New York magazine editor, Annie Graves, and her lawyer husband Robert. In a way which none of them at first understands, their destiny comes to depends on Pildrim's. So mutilated and traumatized is he that even the vet who saved his life now wishes he hadn't. Annie refuses to have him destroyed, sensing that if she does, something in Grace will die to.

She hears of a man in Montana, a 'whisperer' who is said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. Abandoning her job, Annie sets off accross the continent with Grace and Pilgrem to find him. The man's name is Tom Boker and he lives on the Rocky Mountain Front, a place of daunting beauty. Here, under the massive Montana sky, all their lives are changed forever.

Well worth the read at anytime, anywhere. Perfect for holidays!