Impelled

2022 EQUUS Arts Festival Literary First Place Award Winner. Will Emma have a chance at love and the new future she has worked so hard to build or will an unknown stranger bent on destroying her life do so first?. Emma Walker’s life revolves around work finishing her last year of college and the thing she loves most – horses.That is until everything changes on one seemingly ordinary day when Emma receives information that turns her world upside-down.. Now Emma is forced to make a decision that will change life as she knows it forever. A decision that will take her far from everything and everyone she’s ever known.. While Emma is fighting to create a new future for herself she is surprised when someone from her past life back home shows up in the present. But his arrival is timed perfectly with a threatening note that has Emma on edge and wondering who she can trust.. And then there's Michael the farm's live-in handyman who has slowly become her friend and confidant despite his original aloofness. But is it just her or is there a spark between them that she has been denying because of the complications of working together? Even considering the possibility of having feelings for Michael could threaten everything she’s working so hard for – not to mention the new relationship she just began with someone else.. But Emma is beginning to realize that the decision she made not only changed her life in ways she never anticipated but that it has just put her directly in the path of someone who has the power to threaten her future and everything she loves – not to mention her and horses’ lives.. (Clean equestrian romantic suspense series with no sexual content or foul language. Suitable for adults and young adults. This series is intended to be read sequentially.). Editorial Reviews:Ocala Wellington suspense a love triangle and horses – does it get any better? No it does not and you’ll find all that and more in Sarah Welk Baynum’s debut novel Impelled.- An excerpt from the Horse & Style Magazine article by Laurie Berglie. A suspenseful romantic page-turning story about a young woman's search for success in the Florida show jumping world. Emma Walker is starting a new life. One in which she lets go of everything to begin again everything that is except her love of horses. Impelled is a lovely debut novel that gets the horse facts right and is difficult to put down. I look forward to reading the next book in this series- Carly Kade author of the In the Reins series and host of the Equestrian Spotlight Podcast