Author
DAWN LEFEVRE
WILL THE MUSIC THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER ULTIMATELY TEAR THEM APART?
It’s 1985 and singer-songwriter Sapphire dreams of being a rockstar. Too bad she’s bound for college and a career far from the spotlight. Then she meets a guitar-shredding, tequila-swilling, man-eating mess named Destiny. They have little in common. Sapphire is an honor student with loving parents while Destiny spent her childhood bouncing from place to place with her drifter mother. But the one thing that they do share is their love of heavy metal. So when Sapphire and her new BFF catch the eye of a local band, it’s goodbye college and hello Sunset Strip.
But instead of fame, Destiny and Sapphire find only poverty and disillusionment. Band members come and go and so do their dreams of a record deal. They could use a break. Or, an ex-junkie jazz drummer. What happens next is legendary but will put their friendship to the ultimate test.
The Metal Sisters is for everyone who has ever camped out in a snowstorm for concert tickets or holed up in their bedrooms playing guitar until their fingers callused. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and most of all, you’ll want to share this book with your best friend.
A Horse Racing
Novella
Everyone on the backstretch had at least one Crazy Cory story…
This short story collection brings to life the whacky but lovable Crazy Cory, a broken ex-jockey reborn as a healer of rogue racehorses. Experience Crazy Cory’s wild antics through the eyes of the beloved characters of BACKSTRETCH GIRLS and RACETRACK ROGUES, including:
-
Metalhead ponygirl Teagan and her BFF Anne
-
Dahlia, rescuer of rejected racehorses
-
Pioneer female jockey Marilyn Matteo
-
The notoriously cheap Charlie Miller
-
Beleaguered track security chief Big Ed
And many more!
One doesn’t need to have read the previous books to enjoy these fun, stand-alone stories by this award-winning author.
One Woman's Story of Family, Love, and Loss in the Horse Racing World
Nineteen-year-old Dahlia Leggett never dreamed that she’d wind up back at Garden State Park, training a ragtag stable of misfit Thoroughbreds. Or that she’d fall for Steve, the sexy son of legendary trainer Bill Bassett, her nemesis. But after the sudden death of her estranged mother Marilyn, it’s goodbye college and hello racetrack.
Marilyn had once been a star jockey but her relationship with her daughter was less than stellar. Robbed of sharing in a cheesy chick-flick reconciliation with her mother, Dahlia is left with only memories, boxes of racing memorabilia, and a cottage on her grandparents’ horse farm. When she stumbles upon a shocking videotape among Marilyn’s possessions, it threatens her precarious relationship with Steve but reveals a way that she can make amends to her mother.
Can Dahlia achieve her mother’s dream without losing the man she loves?
Backstretch Girls
by Dawn LeFevre
Print ISBN: 978-1-54398-431-6 | 347 pages
eBook ISBN: 978-1-54398-432-3
SPORTS & RECREATION / Equestrian
A rebellious ponygirl.
A jockey tested by tragedy.
A rejected racehorse.
A three million dollar race.
Teagan Sullivan is a golden disappointment in the show ring. To make matters worse, her family are big deal Olympic equestrians, so she skulks off to pony Thoroughbreds at a rundown racetrack. But while she excels at equine relations, she sucks at human ones—just ask her sexy blacksmith/sleepover buddy Screaming Wolf. And if she hadn't gone and rescued that stupid jockey wannabe Anne Simmons, she wouldn't be saddled with a new roommate, a broken down racehorse and a chance to prove herself to her family at last.
Born two months premature to an anorexic mother, Anne was a longshot just to survive. Now eighteen, she arrives on the backstretch with nothing but a duffel bag and Derby dreams. But the horsemen don't trust the naïve newcomer, so she's stuck ponying horses instead of riding races. She is still chasing their respect when a near-fatal accident shatters her body—and her spirit.
As Anne struggles to find the courage to ride again, Teagan wrestles with her feelings for Screaming Wolf. Horse racing's richest race, the Breeder's Cup Classic, offers them both a chance at redemption. Will Teagan and Anne conquer their fears in time to claim the things that they love most?
