Sunny Gale--A Novel

It's 1895 and fourteen year old Hannah Brandt struggles with the hard life on a Nebraska homestead. When her imagination is captured by a wild filly, she becomes obsessed with horses, which opens the door to her destiny. Just four years later she enters the first Cheyenne Frontier Day rodeo where she wins a relay race. Emboldened by her success, she adopts a new name, Sunny Gale, and pursues a rodeo career, much to the displeasure of her very proper mother and her young husband. Sunny defies convention with every move as the drive to compete takes over her life, leaving everything else behind, including husbands and children. Despite heartbreaks in and out of arena, she will not compromise on her quest for glory, nor will she bow to the expectations for a woman in her time.Award winning author Jamie Lisa Forbes once again brings us complex characters in a story based on real women and the early days of professional rodeo, one of the few outlets at the turn of the twentieth century where ordinary women could become stars.