Servant of the Horse

Sandy doesn’t fit in. Not with the Good Works programme of the family who adopted her. Not with the smug superiority of the other evacuees who’ve come north to escape the Blitz. Certainly not with the Braeside children who view the ‘Vaccies’ with suspicion. No. She’s on her own, same as always. Not a part of any group. Not wanting to be a part of any group. Because, somewhere her real family is waiting, and when she finds them - right now she dreams of them living in some wonderful cavern - well, when she finds her own family, she won’t have to put up with all the stupid people she despises, will she? Except that she doesn’t despise Chrissie who rescued her from the Village Hall Committee – and she doesn’t despise Pa because he’s a horse whisperer and actually quite scary - and she definitely doesn’t despise Hillend Cottage because it’s the nearest thing to a home she has ever found. But then she hears about the cave and nothing will do but she must go in search of it. And once she has proved her bravery and become a Servant of the Horse, and joined Rab and Malcolm and Tommy in their underground search for the Tower Passages, her life takes on a whole new meaning. Pit ponies and trapped miners and a river blackened by coal dust – Sandy’s adventures at Braeside have only just begun. Servant of the Horse is the first book in the ‘Braeside’ series. It’s a real place – a historic village in the centre of Scotland - though Braeside is not its real name. Nell Coleman now lives in Canada, but is delighted to be going back there – if only in her memories – as she continues the series with ‘The Secret People’, coming soon to both CreateSpace and Amazon Kindle. See you in Braeside?