Nicholas Evans
1) The divide
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The discovery of a frozen body in a remote mountain creek opens one police file but seems to close several others. At the time of her demise, young Abbie Cooper was a wanted woman, notorious as a murderer and eco-terrorist. But how did she die? And how did the golden child of a loving family become a hunted killer?
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A girl on a horse is involved in a car accident, loses a leg and the horse goes mad. As she won't allow him to be destroyed, her mother, a New York magazine editor, quits job and husband and takes horse and daughter to a rancher in Montana, said to cure horses by talking to them. Despite cultural differences--she is British--love blooms between editor and rancher.