Summer Book Sale!

Need a beach read? A book for your summer reading list? An escape for that long plane/train/car trip? A great gift?

I'm offering a book sale! Buy two of any of my books, including ones in the Beloved Horses series, and receive Woogie's Travels FREE!

All books will be personally autographed. Just e-mail your request, who to sign them to and your mailing address. I will reply with the total amount due and where to mail the check.

Visit my web site at http://www.sharonminer.com/ to read about my books and the prices. Shipping is only $3 for all three books for this special offer.

You may want to visit Amazon.com to view the Search Inside feature as well.

Have a safe and fun summer!

Secrets & Ghost Horses

Author Holly McClure has a wonderful mystery book out titled Secrets & Ghost Horses. The setting is the Low Country in South Carolina and the protagonists are twin sisters, Hannah and Aislinn.

The thirteen-year-old sisters spend a summer with their parents at an old family residence, one where there father had been born in. The girls pout about having a boring place to spend their vacation, that is until they meet a handsome young man and his horses. The excitement really begins when they realize their new friends are ghosts and the boy asks for their help in finding his murderer.

This Young Adult mystery novel will appeal to adults as well. There's mystery, suspense, humor and history of the wild horses from the Carolinas.

Besides an author, Holly McClure is also a literary agent for her company, Sullivan Maxx (http://www.sullivanmaxx.com/ ).

The Gift Horse by Jami Davenport

If you like hot, steamy romance novels with a realistic equine setting, then read Jami Davenport's THE GIFT HORSE.

Sam MacIntyre returns from Germany to a stable she once worked at but left after a barn fire who many thought she started with her careless habits. Sam wants to prove her worth as a rider/trainer/instructor but Murphy's Law follows her around, and the owner's son is a major distraction.

Carson Reynolds makes a deal with his father to make the stable profitable and despite his brain telling him to shape up Sam in a business-like way, his heart tells him otherwise.

Just released this year, this is the third book in the Evergreen Dynasty series.

Visit jamidavenport.com for more information.

The Saddle Club - Endurance Ride

The Saddle Club series by Bonnie Bryant is popular among young women. With more than 100 horse books to her credit, the author wrote this one, #69, about the sport of endurance riding.

This was a fun book to read. Especially since I tried a competitive trail ride many years ago in a park outside of Philadelphia, and know that without training a horse and rider can feel overwhelmed! I had fun on my little Morgan stallion, Windfield Farewell, but realized halfway through that we were out of our element (his forte, I discovered later, was dressage). But at least we finished the course.

It was quite the learning experience for the Saddle Club girls too, but with help from an experience endurance rider who joins their group for the day, they overcome the many obstacles. They also learn that some riders DO know more about certain discipline more than the Saddle Club! I liked that the girls learned about social etiquette as well as the skills and equipment needed for this sport.

The exciting scene when their instructor and his horse fall off a steep ridge is a page turner - the reader wonders how the girls can help. The end is very satisfying and I'm looking forward to reading more of this series!