Karen and Lash meet as teenagers and form an immediate bond over their mutual love for horses. Year later, Lash marries, and she and her husband locate their dream acreage for building a home and an equestrian facility, only Lash's dream isn't complete if she can't convince Karen to risk everything in a purchase of the adjoining property. Karen eventually gambles it all, and together, she and Lash weather countless falls from horses, a roller coaster of love losses and triumphs, the emotional pitfalls of equestrian breeding and competing-and finally, a heartbreaking diagnosis of a fatal illness.
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Karen Donley-Hayes's work has appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Bartleby Snopes, Blue Lyra Review, The Quotable, The Healing Muse, Pulse, The Saturday Evening Post online, and others, and has been anthologized in Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Cat's Life; The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home; and Blue Lyra Review Anthology. She and her husband, Arnold, live in Garrettsville, Ohio. Falling Off Horses is Karen's first book. Karen's debut young-adult novel, Shoalie's Crow, will be released by MilSpeak's imprint, Family of Light Books, in spring 2024.