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Horses Of Half-Moon Ranch
Books
10-18

 

10: Little Vixen
Brad Martin, a famous reining expert, visits Half Moon Ranch with his champion horse, Little Vixen. Kirstie adores the horse but suspects the man. Her worry turns to alarm when a sudden fire traps Little Vixen in the barn. Is Martin to blame? If so, why would he put his own horse in danger? Kirstie aims to untangle the truth from the lies…


 

11: Gunsmoke
It’s Kids’ Week at the ranch. Kirstie befriends Lacey, a loner with a natural talent for riding. Besotted with her horse, a blue roan gelding called Gunsmoke, Lacey breaks ranch rules and rides off trail alone. When she fails to return, Kirstie fears the worst; either Lacey has had a terrbible accident, or she’s run away – unaware that a heavy storm is brewing…

 

 


12: Golden Dawn

Golden Dawn, a sorrel mare, gives birth to a foal, Tatum. But when flash floods pour down from the mountains, they wreak havoc in the meadow and little Tatum goes missing. Could the foal have survived the flood? Kirstie and Golden Dawn set off upriver to find out. Ahead lies danger – sub-zero night temperatures, coyotes and mountain lions, and of course the ever present threat of another disastrous flood…


 

13: Silver Spur
The ranch’s new wrangler, Troy Hendren, is full of stories of his years spent in Montana and his faithful horse, Silver Spur. According to Troy, Silver Spur can spin on a ten-cent piece and understands every word he says. But old timer Hadley Crane is suspicious of this flashy cowboy. When a guest mislays an antique gold locker, is Hadley right in pointing the finger at Troy?


 

 


14: Moondance

New arrival Moondance is a sale barn bargain; beautiful but only half schooled. Hadley blames rival dude owner, Ty Tyler, for the blue roan’s bad habits and poor condition. Kirstie shares the old wrangler’s doubts over Tyer’s claimes for his magical horse-training method. But she’s not happy when Hadley rides into a head-on confrontation which could put both his and Moondance’s lives at risk.

 

15: Lady Roseanne
Matt’s new girlfriend, Lauren, has gone on a study trip and left her beautiful horse, Lady Roseanne, at Half-Moon Ranch. Keen to impress, Matt pays lots of attention to the Appaloosa mare. So he loses it big time when he finds lovely Lady covered in cuts and scratches. He blames te new wrangler, Karina Cooper – but Kirstie suspects someone or something else is to blame…


 

16: Steamboat Charlie
Steamboat Charlie, a big black gelding, arrives at Half-Moon Ranch with a bad reputatipn for bucking off his riders. But Kirstie likes the black gelding’s playful nature and happily works with him, until a random gunshiot during a forest ride shatters the peace. Was the shot an accident or deliberate? Can Kirstie uncover the mystery – and find out the truth about Steamboat’s past?

 

 


17: Skylark
Kirstie is pleased that Skylark and her foal Hummingbird become the favourite subject of artist Leon Powel during his visit to Half-Moon Ranch. But tragedy strikes when a freak snowstorm traps the bay mare and her foal. An outraged Powell sets about exposing the Scotts for their “cruelty”. But Matt Scott isn’t convinced that Hummingbird’s death was in fact due to the cold. Meanwhile, poor Skylark pines for her dead foal…

 

18: Eagle Wing
Feeding horses in Pond Meadow early one spring morning, Kirstie comes across an abandoned and heavily pregnant mare. A scribbled note gives the beautiful paint a name – Eagle Wing. Clues link her to a Mexican family staying in a nearby trailer park. But before Kirstie can act, she must help the mare give birth to a perfect foal. Only afterwards can she begin to solve the mystery behind Eagle Wing’s sudden appearance…