Thickwood

<p><strong><em>Some peoples call you </em>misisahk<em>. It means horsefly. You fly with the horses . . . you're small with a big bite.</em></strong></p><p>Raised on a ranch in Saskatchewan's rugged Thickwood Hills where the prairie transitions to forest Willomena Swift home from playing for the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League finds a precious foal killed by a rogue stallion.</p><p>The stallion's owner once Willo's baseball coach now chairs the committee heading up the new cooperative pasture-a pasture that is set to swallow her family lease where she grew up learned to love and understand horses and dreamed of returning to raise them.</p><p>Facing numerous challenges with both the stallion and his owner Willo remembers her past years playing professional baseball as she struggles to realize her dreams in the present.</p><p>Amid romance and tragedy Willo must find a way to stand on her own and assert her rightful place in her beloved Thickwood.</p>