Phantom Stallion: Wild Horse Island #5: Fire Maiden
Chapter One
"My foreman tells me Hoku is about ready to start carrying a rider," Jonah said as Darby Carter climbed out of the 'Iolani Ranch truck after school.
Although her boots had just now touched the red Hawaiian dirt, and she still held the truck door open, Darby didn't move. If she'd slipped through time molecules into an alternate reality, one in which her grandfather trusted her to start riding her mustang filly, she didn't want to change position and shatter this dream come true.
Darby took in everything around her. It looked just like it had when she'd left for school that morning.
She was still in Hawaii, on Wild Horse Island. The Australian shepherds were barking their usual welcome, and Sun House—in which she had a bedroom—was still cantilevered over a bluff, looking down on hundreds of emerald acres that made 'Iolani Ranch heaven for horses.
Across the yard, in one direction, sat the round pen.
Past it, right where it should be, stood the foreman's green house next to the tack shed. Beyond that, ... read full excerpt from: Phantom Stallion: Wild Horse Island #5: Fire Maiden ebook
