Kate Le Page

Fire Horse Kate Le Page

Helen Doyle is a determined, self-effacing teenager who will do anything to spend time on what she loves most - horses. It's 1984 and although Helen is happy to be able to help her bestfriend Jessica and her father with their project of horse rescue and rehabilitation, it isn't ideal for Helen... Time after time she becomes attached to a horse only for it to move on to its forever home. Success for the horse means heartache for Helen, whose modest background leaves her chances of owning ahorse a distant dream. After one particularly difficult loss, she resolves never to fall in love again. It soon becomes evident that the carefree summer Helen envisagedwith Jess and the horses will not go as planned. Family illnessand the arrival of two potentially unmanageable horses means a few ideas must be reconsidered. Helen's single-mindedness is testedto the limit resulting in both girls ending up in grave danger. Even with her inimitable resolve, can Helen still dig deep enough to fightback one more time?