Another gripping literary fiction novel by Authors Amaia Joy and Geoffrey Carroll.
It is 1917, and because of her extraordinary abilities to train horses, New Mexico Mimbres Native American "Horse Girl" Mazie Atencio is drafted into the US Army Cavalry and sent to the Western Front in France amidst the Great War.
As a Lieutenant in the US Cavalry, Mazie's excellent horsemanship is quickly noticed. Her natural, gentle training techniques, combined with a mystical spiritual bond with horses quickly made her a legend throughout Europe. Mazie's youthful innocence, native beauty, and unbridled spirit will capture your soul.
While stationed at Fort Champagne near the front lines in France, Mazie forms a common professional friendship with the fort's dedicated, fun, and funny veterinarian, Major Walter Thompson of the Australian 9th Light Horse Regiment. Their working friendship soon blossoms into a spirited romance. However, the consequences of the war's blistering devastations separate the two.
Not only were millions of human causalities in the Great War, more than eight million horses, donkeys, and mules died in the mayhem that enveloped them.
With brilliant and exhilarating precision, Amaia Joy and Geffrey Carroll lead you on a little-known and untold piece of complex history through the Great War in Europe.