Beauty: The Christmas Horse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798177796352)

Beauty began life as a little black-and-white filly, seemingly destined to be overlooked. Separated from her mother when she was very young, she learned to take care of herself. She stopped expecting anyone to choose her and learned to survive on her own.

Then one day, a woman named Dovie walked into her pasture.

Dovie had loved horses all her life, but after being injured in a riding accident, fear had kept her out of the saddle for twenty years. Now she was finally ready to try again. She wasn't looking for just any horse. She was searching for the one special horse who might help her find her way back to something she had loved nearly all her life.

But that horse seemed impossible to find.

Dovie was almost ready to give up when something happened that she never expected.

Across the pasture, a little black-and-white filly left her hay and walked toward her. Beauty could have stayed with the other horses. She could have kept eating. Instead, she crossed the pasture, stopped beside Dovie, and quietly placed her head on Dovie's shoulder.

In that moment, something passed between them that neither needed words to explain.

Beauty chose Dovie. And Dovie chose Beauty.

On Christmas Eve, the little filly who had spent so much of her young life taking care of herself finally came home.

But coming home was only the beginning.

Beauty had a whole new world waiting for her, including Glassman, the horse who would become her closest friend, and a herd of mares named Dusty, Flash, Fancy, Lacey, and others who would later join the herd. For the first time, Beauty would learn what it meant to truly belong, not only to a person, but to a family and a herd of her own.

And while Beauty was learning about friendship, trust, love, and belonging, something remarkable was happening to Dovie, too. The little horse she had brought home was quietly helping her rediscover something fear had taken from her twenty years before.

Her courage.

Beauty: The Christmas Horse is the true story of a little filly who needed someone willing to see how special she was, and a woman who needed one extraordinary horse to help her believe in herself again. It is a story of friendship, trust, second chances, and the powerful bond that can grow when a horse and a person somehow recognize that they belong together.

Sometimes we choose the horse. And sometimes, if we are very fortunate, the horse chooses us.