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A second chance in the saddleAll that widowed veterinarian Zach Talbot wants is to raise his two boys in peace and quiet. Who’d have thought that being roped into helping a woman choose a horse for her son would up-end his whole world? Except exactress and rodeo rider Mallory Keyes isn’t just any woman…Whispering Pines is the ideal temporary haven after the accident that changed Mallory’s life for ever. Falling for the sexy, caring man who found the perfect palomino for her eleven year old wasn’t in her plans. Can she return the favour by helping to heal the vet’s heart?

A lavish and richly detailed portrait of the world of Newton and the London of that time.From the disturbing goings-on in a South London mental hospital, the narrator of this daring and ambitious novel hurtles back through the past, to the character of Kit, Isaac Newton’s niece. What unfolds is a story of conflicting male and female universes at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a time when Newton and others were claiming the meaning of the world for themselves and trying to fix it in their grid, an emotional asphyxiation Kit determines to fight against. Full of music and science and politics, Newton’s Niece is a book about disorientation, human life as self-experiment and the nature of Time, a novel that boldly explores sexual politics and the early feminist struggle.’Magnificent set pieces, a richness of thought, a prodigal and original talent.’ Time Out