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Dear Reader,

Thanks so much for coming back to Wrangler’s Corner with Becca and Nathan’s story. They’ve become two of my favorite characters. Probably because I got to work on this story with my favorite daughter. Okay, my only daughter, but she’s still my favorite. This was truly a very special story for me because we brainstormed it together. When the Killer Voices contest was announced, Lauryn (then fifteen years old) decided she wanted to give it a try. She came up with the characters and wrote the first page to be submitted. Of course I helped her out by telling her what to include in the first page, like a lot of suspense, and she took it from there. She based Becca’s character on her own experience with a fall from a horse and the misery of a sprained back and a concussion. She then added her years of experience riding horses (since she was about four years old) and voilà, had a great heroine for the story. I came up with the hero for the most part, and then she and I brainstormed how the story should unfold. Lauryn then wrote the next two chapters, which I helped her edit, and she went through to the last round of the contest, where she was asked to submit a full manuscript. Well, her schedule was such that there was no way she was going to be able to do it. Exams in May, then a very busy summer with mission trips and so on. So, the story was shelved. About six months or so ago, I asked her if she was ever going to finish the story and she said, “No, probably not, but you can if you want to.”

And so I did. I tweaked it a bit to make it fit the Wrangler’s Corner series, but I felt she deserved her name on the cover due to all the initial hard work she put into it. We hope you love Becca and Nathan’s story as much as we do! Have a blessed Christmas and very happy New Year. May you never run out of books to read!

Much love and blessings,

Lynette