A Twist of Fate Chapter 1 The sound of many hoof beats rattled the foggy silence of the Kentucky morning. Yearlings, kept in the infield of the small training track, swept beside the dew-shimmering rail of the back stretch in a ghostly blur of bay and chestnut. White eyes rolled as the youngsters kicked up their heels, and carved deep half-moons of earth from the ground with their tiny hooves. Ozone hung heavily like a veil on the morning, and all at once the galloping band of purebreds faded into the misty dawn just as they ha
Crimson Tides Chapter 1 For many cold nights, a billowing warm cloud of smoke had hung like a comforter over the rolling mountains. Below the fumes, fires blazed intensely, devouring every devourable thing their retched hot fingers could scrape. Skye, from her late-night perch on a high, rocky outcrop watched the inferno with a gaze filled with both fear, and anger. This was her home, her forest, and every morning a little more land had been scraped clean of its life-giving inhabitants. Struck with a pang of anger, the mare ground her teeth and stamped upon the rock that held her weight. "C