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If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired...if you're too uncomfortable to even look up...if you feel that no one has experienced the suffering that you have...think again! How low do you need to sink before it becomes time to change gaits? This inspirational story is a testimony to the work that Guy Kaufman and his horse, Shadow are doing: changing lives, one heart, one person at a time-- Using horses as part of his therapy program. Taking the heart wrenching lessons learned from his past, Guy puts into practice what he has been taught as a certified Equine Specialist, giving those...

Summer is a time of discovery for all at the Anderson house. Patrick's brother, Pal comes to stay with a neighbor down the street. Pal proves that he is everything that Patrick isn't. Joe's family enrolls Patrick in obedience school, giving Joe an opportunity to work with the wayward setter, even as Pal shines with his own mastery of the trainer' s commands. Joe also enrolls in summer school, to make up a credit he failed during the regular school season. It is on a weekend fishing trip that Pal, Patrick and Joe are put to the test when faced with a danger much greater than themselves. For ...

“when you look at yourself in the mirror, who do you see?” Andy had it all. A home. A wife. Two kids. A successful career. Andy also had a drinking problem. Because of that, he lost it all, becoming homeless. Then his world caved in completely when his wife and daughter were killed...ironically, by a drunk driver. Sammy also had it all. Beautiful wife. Beautiful home. From the outside looking in, it was a seemingly great life. Sammy lived his life with wild abandon. No one could tell him what to do or how to do it. Until the night he became the impetus for massively changing the ...

Willow Pond Farm was a haven for Ritchie back when he was a lost, rebellious teenager. When he inherited it, it was his decision to continue to offer it as a safe haven for children in need of a place to stay... Summer and Sierra are two sisters whose horrific past culminates in their being removed from an abusive mother and placed into foster care at Willow Pond Farm. A chronic worrier, Summer has a secret fear that only increases her anxieties during her stay, while Sierra, feeling protective of her older sister, can only wonder what they did wrong to end up being taken away from the only...

Twelve years before, he thought he'd die a grumpy old man. His past dictated that nothing good had ever happened before, so why should it change now? It was when he placed an ad on an online dating site that his life changed immensely. Yet how would she feel about him once she realized the truth about his past...would she be like the rest who'd used him and then, leave...? Or would she be the one who could forgive him enough to stay?

The world of meth is a harrowing place. Do a line, take a hit or shoot it up and you enter a world that can soon grow out of control. People, places, things mean nothing because you are free falling. The more you enter, the more you’ll never want to leave until the day--you never come back. This is the story as seen through the eyes of a child who grows to adulthood watching her own mother disintegrate from meth use. The men. The booze. The sex. The drugs…it becomes ever-consuming, until her daughter becomes nothing more to her than a fuzzy memory. All this child has are memories of a ...

With age comes wisdom as well as a longing to turn back time and change the past. Charlie Couter is an old man who, on what he considers to be his last cattle drive, shares the stories of his life with his young drovers, in thehopes they will learn from the events that has nearly destroyed his life. He is a young man full of dreams and ambitions. All too soon, his dreams become nightmares when his beloved young wife and two children die in a prairie fire. The only reminders that he has are her journal and a steel and diamond encrusted belt buckle that she had made for him. Losing himself in...

Lost in a rain-drenched cornfield with the Civil War only moments behind, a lone soldier stumbles across a priceless piece of metal in the shape of a hand-hammered horseshoe. When a sudden shot rings out, the mineral becomes a part of history that influences the lives of every one it comes into contact with over many years. Lost in a poker game at the infamous House of the Rising Sun in New Orleans, up the Mississippi River to St. Louis in a steamboat, and in a mine accident, the horseshoe also is involved in a train wreck and bank robbery that claim the lives of two recipients. Northward ...

Dakota is a Labrador retriever pup whose life began with abuse and neglect. Just when it seemed like she was doomed to a life of sadness, along came her hero in a boy named Alex. With Alex, she learns what trust is as they become best buddies, exploring the farm and the adventures that await them down the trail. That summer, a mysterious “something” has been discovered in the lake by Alex’s house. Although the townsfolk in the small town of Hibbing, Minnesota speculate on what it could be, no one really knows…until Alex is confronted by it one hot, summer day. Although fearless, not...

Jesse Pagnini is a martial arts champion who is kidnapped for ransom by a gang of hoodlums lead by a psycho who has tormented her since kindergarten. Chainsaw, Hoser, Fist, Trout, Bear, Bold, Giggler, Rage, Ridge. All names to be feared in the underground, where drugs are the name of the game and selling them to the highest bidder is away of life. Held against her will in an abandoned, rat-infested warehouse, it now becomes a battle of wits as she lays in wait, hoping her father finds her before it's too late! Vinny Pagnini, once the object of ridicule in his old neighborhood, has risen ...

Patrick is an English setter puppy with a penchant for mischief. His newly adopted family adores him-all except for Mike, the family head. He thinks Patrick is just a maladjusted dog who refuses to act like the dogs Mike used to raise. As Patrick grows, his antics don't improve much, even with training, and Mike is exasperated; until one day a large, temperamental dog moves in next door. Then it is up to Patrick to prove himself when a little boy is attacked. Can Patrick save him, or is he just...a wayward setter? What is the price a dog is willing to pay to prove himself to the ones he ...

It was their senior year in high school...class of 1983...a time when their dreams and hopes lay before them... What if... you had the chance to go back in time with the hope that a love now kindled could have been realized earlier? Would you? Sara was now married to the love of her life, but always wondered what her life would have been like had she met him sooner. Then came that chance—an unexpected trip back twenty five years in time. He was a small town rebel who had won her heart. Then a tragic accident almost took his life, followed by news that would change his destiny...for a ...

Ever wonder what life ‘on the road’ is like? Rob convinced the love of his life, Elizabeth, to become a truck driver. Despite the fact that she is a “chicken sh*t wussy,” she gives it her all. Not rain, not snow nor dead of night interferes with truckers and their destination. Unfortunately, it’s the long days, the sleepless nights, the rules and regulations of the road, not to mention truck stop fare, that quickly make her realize that even love has it’s limits. In a world still dominated by men, she proves she can do what’s required of her, provided it’s sunny, flat and 75...

It has been ten years since Elizabeth gave up her truck driving job with Rob, but her greatest journey is just beginning. Rob has COPD and was told he must either give up his current lifestyle, or succumb to the ravages of his illness. As much as Elizabeth wants to spend a lifetime with him, she is watching as time is slipping by and taking him with it. Despite her best efforts, she realizes that he too, will become another statistic and so, must make the decisions that will either prolong his life or else, lose it. Being a caregiver is never easy. Neither is watching someone you love ...

It's been many years since "Patrick the Wayward Setter," and many changes have taken place, too. With the passing of Mike and the Anderson children having grown up and moving on, Sarah is alone, until she meets up with Rob. With Patrick's approval, they marry and settle into a new routine. It is the sad passing of Patrick that leaves Sarah feeling lost. Enter Patti, an adorable English setter puppy who looks just like Patrick. However, her puppy antics make all of Patrick's adventures pale in comparison, which has Sarah questioning why she is raising yet another setter, when her heart has ...

"Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen..." Losing a job often brings panic and uncertainty. Days turn into weeks, then months. You do everything right...fill out applications, update resumes, go to hiring fairs and still, no word from anyone. Bills pile up, money runs out...then what? Bill was terminated from his truck driver job due to a misunderstanding that sent him into a downward spiral of self pity. Withdrawing into himself, he uses alcohol as a retreat, leaving his wife, Tracy, to pick up the pieces. Just when they thought they had an answer...

Alcoholism. It's a journey only those who have taken can understand. Imagine a life where your very existence is dependent upon drinking. At first, it begins as just having fun while partying...or maybe life's situations has forced you to drink to forget the pain. Soon, it becomes out of control. All or nothing. You know that to continue, you will lose everything you have...including sooner or later...your life - or someone else's. Yet the seductive lure of Lady Alcohol constantly calls your name. She is your mistress - your lover- the one you will give up everything else for, just to keep ...

western historical fiction. Was it by chance that Rachel Callahan answered an ad for help on a dairy farm in Luck, Wisconsin? Was it by choice that Colt Shepard met her, the memories he still carried of his Lizzy and the horseshoe she had given him haunted him so much that he left the farm for an uncertain future? Was it by chance that he won it all in a poker game, only to lose his freedom after a shooting cost one man his life? Was it by choice that Rachel kept up her vigil for the one man who had taken her heart? and would it be by chance that they might meet up again one day? Or would ...

“Look at all of the things that were set in motion, just by you and I being together…” Abby spent much of her growing up years lost in the foster care system, struggling to survive. Now that she was eighteen, she had aged out of the system into the “real world.” Except that she has very little trust in anyone, including herself. To her, the rest of her adult years span before her with very little hope for the future… Her mother had been a meth user most of Abby’s growing up years. Every day was an uncertainty for little Abby, who wondered when her next meal would be, where ...

It wasn't Hope's choice that she was born, but her mother made her regret her existence every day during her childhood. Her cowardly father could only look aside as his wife wielded her poisonous words or worse, her severe punishments. Hope needed to deal with hunger, overwork, beatings and verbal abuse. She was isolated from friends, her only solace being the books she loved to read. There she was able to escape the pain that she grew up in. As she marked off the days on her calendar, she wondered what the future held for her, beginning to doubt in it's very existence. It takes a series of...