MARKHAM, Va., Nov. 24, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Finally! A contemporary novel about a modern woman and her racehorse. Run Like The Wind is especially for everyone who loved the story of the black stallion when we were kids and who wishes to read a grownup tale about horses. Authored by Mary-Linda Adams, this novel highlights the struggles that horsemen go through to get to the Kentucky Derby, "The most exciting two minutes in sports."
Meet Madeleine a career woman, whose father's illness forces her to choose between the comfortable life she has built for herself or the uncertain future of her family's thoroughbred farm. Be a part of the miraculous foaling of her black thoroughbred colt, a giant of a horse called Spiderman.
Follow her adventures as the story sweeps across the United States from glamorous race tracks in Kentucky to California. Along the way she meets ex-Yankee slugger Matt Donovan, who sees her as the lovely young woman she really is. She only needs to believe in herself to find a love she never believed existed.
Ride with her along the Derby Trail, through the highs and lows of Spiderman's racing career to the exciting conclusion. For more information, please visit Xlibris.com or call (888) 795-4274 today.
About the Author
Mary-Linda Adams has owned and raced horses for much of her life. She is a geologist by profession and has authored many technical papers. She performed leading-edge research on plate tectonics and lunar volcanology while at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Most recently, her company performed innovative very shallow 3D seismic reflection surveys at hazardous waste sites across the United States.
Run Like The Wind * by Mary-Linda Adams
Publication Date: November 5, 2008
Trade Paperback; $19.99; 307 pages; 978-1-4363-6959-6
Cloth Hardback; $29.99; 307 pages; 978-1-4363-6960-2
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