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eBook Category: Romance/Historical Fiction
eBook Description: Beautiful young Irish horsewoman Caitlin Cleary wanted to be a jockey but knew it wasn't possible for a woman in the early 20th century. Being the wife of a horse breeder was a fitting compromise, and when she met and fell in love with wealthy American Charlie Kendall, a novice Thoroughbred breeder, she accepted his proposal. When he invited her ambitious social climbing brother Eamonn to teach him the ropes, and accompany him to Pinecroft, his estate deep in the mysterious New Jersey Pine Barrens, her joy was complete. She dismissed Charlie's reticence about details of his family life as unimportant despite the misgivings expressed by her father. The only clue Caitlin had as a reason for Charlie's silence about most of his family was her discovery that he had hated his late father. Undeterred by this disturbing knowledge, she married him and accompanied him to the United States. In New York, the new bride met Charlie's much loved aunt, Theda Kendall and renewed acquaintance with an old finishing school friend, Eleanor Roosevelt. Theda explained that Charlie's mother, Laurene, was an alcoholic, which explained why the family had chosen to live in the remote New Jersey Pine Barrens. His sister Ashleigh also presented possibly lethal problems. Pinecroft, as Caitlin was destined to learn, was a house of many dark, perverse secrets that threatened the fabric of her marriage. Could she brush them aside and concentrate on the establishment of a successful Thoroughbred horse farm, even after her brother Eamonn almost brought her bright hopes to an end? The Pinecroft Thoroughbreds describes the New Jersey Pinelands in their heydey at the time of the early 20th century, when the wealthy who craved privacy came to local resorts, and several Thoroughbred farms were established. Many schemes were hatched there, many dreams dashed. Would Caitlin's dream of successful Thoroughbred farm and a happy family life come to fruition, or would they crumble as so many in the Pinelands have done?

eBook Publisher: Zumaya Publications/Zumaya Publications, Published: Zumaya Publications, 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2002

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Words: 121096
Reading time: 345-484 min.
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I opened my mouth to ask him what his intentions were, after having tied most of my summer up, when he suddenly took both my hands and silenced me with his eyes.

"How soon can we be married?" he asked in the same tone he'd just used when inquiring about Grania's prowess with a horse.

"To hell, Mr. Kendall from Americy, I was wondering when you going to ask me that," I retorted rather tartly. But inwardly I sighed with relief.

"I was ready to ask you in Newmarket, but I wanted you to be very, very sure about it," he told me.

"Ach," I murmured, sounding Irish because of the deep emotion I was experiencing, "you've read and studied me like a catechism all these weeks. You knew."

"Just as you've known from the beginning that I love you. Now say it to me," he urged, drawing me to him so tightly that I could scarcely breathe.