Though she spent most of the rare happy moments of her childhood at a ranch camp, Jordan never thought there was space for horses in her adult life. Jordan thinks she's doing pretty well. She survived childhood with an abusive mother. Now she's holding down a job and getting herself through the day-to-day slog of modern living. But her only social outlet is a game--an MMPORG called Heroes of the Totem Spirit--where her partner is a horse named after the one she lost as a kid. Jordan is well aware racking up so many hours in a fantasy world isn't exactly healthy; her brother is constantly hounding her to get out more. When another player in the game starts making friendly overtures, she can even concede this might be a bad sign. So when an ad pops up in her work queue about a ranch offering riding lessons, she decides she needs a new outlet. She heads to the Tipped Z, where she meets her instructor, Erin, and a ranch hand named Grant. Grant proves to be interesting, and not just because he seems potentially interested in her. Though he's clearly a cowboy, he mysteriously refuses to get on a horse. When Jordan sets out to figure out why, she realizes she's going to have to deal with some of her own unaddressed trauma if she wants things with Grant to evolve. --- A Man Who Heals can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the third book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.
Growing up on a ranch, Nora learned the value of hard work. But now she's worried a childhood punching cattle didn't prepare her for adult life in the modern world. It's not that Nora doesn't love the Tipped Z. She wouldn't trade her childhood starting colts and driving cattle through sagebrush for anything. But between her close-knit family, the endless work, and the hours in the scorching sun, she feels like she has to fight for the space to be herself. So when Nora's boyfriend, Ted, encourages her to take a job for the TruGlide Corporation advertising their patented reining shoes, she thinks it will be a good change. What she doesn't count on is how demeaning the work will feel. That would be bad enough on it's own. What's worse is Ted is thrilled, clearly thinking she's the perfect fit for the role. While she's stuck in a job she's beginning to loathe, Nora's lifelong crush, Wyatt, agrees to help out at the Tipped Z to fill in for her absence. Every time Nora and Wyatt are together the sparks seem to fly. But Wyatt has a history of leaving. His life as a roving colt starter makes him hard to pin down. Despite his allure and the chemistry between them, Nora knows better than to think she could change him. Unless, of course, Nora doesn't know Wyatt as well as she thinks she does. --- A Man Who Starts can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the second book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.
Holly lost everything when her husband was thrown in prison. Divorced and broke, the only thing she has to fall back on is her cousin's offer to set her up in a little house at the edge of a ranch called the Tipped Z. Holly has never spent time on a working ranch before. Though she grew up wealthy in California and once hoped to complete on horseback in the Olympics, by the time her cousin's wife invites her to go riding she hasn't been in a saddle in 20 years. She's not that interested in the idea of climbing onto a stock horse. But then she runs into her former trainer and secret love of her youth, Diego. She can't help but hope he'll be her second chance to live the life she feels she missed out on. Meanwhile, there's a mansion going up on the ridge behind her tiny house. It's presence represents the loss of important grazing to the Tipped Z. Holly finds herself with an opportunity to help the owner with his own horses. She needs the money, and she finds she doesn't mind spending time with the super friendly and super rich Luke Rastenhaus despite the fact her cousin despises him. Suddenly riding with Diego, Luke, and also at the ranch, Holly finds herself pulled in three very different directions. She realizes she's going to have to deal with some unresolved aspects of her past if she hopes to figure out which path forward will lead to happiness. --- Vaquera's Haven can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the fourth book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.
When Erin discovers the Tipped Z ranch, she meets a cowboy whose horsemanship takes her breath away. It begins when Erin encounters a cowboy in the street early one morning. Mounted and wearing a hat, cloaked in a cloud of dust, he's driving a small herd of horses through her quiet desert neighborhood. The sight of him lodges in her mind, reminding her of an old dream from her childhood. She decides to figure out where he came from. Erin's hunt leads her to the Tipped Z Ranch, where she signs up for riding lessons with a woman named Nora. Soon, Erin is hooked. She enjoys Nora and adores the horses. But the cowboy she saw that first day is still around. He's Nora's brother, Clint, and he's always at the edge of things—a distracting and watchful presence. Then Clint asks to stand in as Erin's instructor for a day. Erin goes in nervous, not knowing what to expect. Clint is a master horseman. She can't imagine why he'd be interested in spending time with someone who still has so much to learn. ---- A Man Who Rides can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the first book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.
Though she spent most of the rare happy moments of her childhood at a ranch camp, Jordan never thought there was space for horses in her adult life. Jordan thinks she's doing pretty well. She survived childhood with an abusive mother. Now she's holding down a job and getting herself through the day-to-day slog of modern living. But her only social outlet is a game--an MMPORG called Heroes of the Totem Spirit--where her partner is a horse named after the one she lost as a kid. Jordan is well aware racking up so many hours in a fantasy world isn't exactly healthy; her brother is constantly hounding her to get out more. When another player in the game starts making friendly overtures, she can even concede this might be a bad sign. So when an ad pops up in her work queue about a ranch offering riding lessons, she decides she needs a new outlet. She heads to the Tipped Z, where she meets her instructor, Erin, and a ranch hand named Grant. Grant proves to be interesting, and not just because he seems potentially interested in her. Though he's clearly a cowboy, he mysteriously refuses to get on a horse. When Jordan sets out to figure out why, she realizes she's going to have to deal with some of her own unaddressed trauma if she wants things with Grant to evolve. --- A Man Who Heals can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the third book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.
Growing up on a ranch, Nora learned the value of hard work. But now she's worried a childhood punching cattle didn't prepare her for adult life in the modern world. It's not that Nora doesn't love the Tipped Z. She wouldn't trade her childhood starting colts and driving cattle through sagebrush for anything. But between her close-knit family, the endless work, and the hours in the scorching sun, she feels like she has to fight for the space to be herself. So when Nora's boyfriend, Ted, encourages her to take a job for the TruGlide Corporation advertising their patented reining shoes, she thinks it will be a good change. What she doesn't count on is how demeaning the work will feel. That would be bad enough on it's own. What's worse is Ted is thrilled, clearly thinking she's the perfect fit for the role. While she's stuck in a job she's beginning to loathe, Nora's lifelong crush, Wyatt, agrees to help out at the Tipped Z to fill in for her absence. Every time Nora and Wyatt are together the sparks seem to fly. But Wyatt has a history of leaving. His life as a roving colt starter makes him hard to pin down. Despite his allure and the chemistry between them, Nora knows better than to think she could change him. Unless, of course, Nora doesn't know Wyatt as well as she thinks she does. --- A Man Who Starts can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the second book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.
When Erin discovers the Tipped Z ranch, she meets a cowboy whose horsemanship takes her breath away. It begins when Erin encounters a cowboy in the street early one morning. Mounted and wearing a hat, cloaked in a cloud of dust, he's driving a small herd of horses through her quiet desert neighborhood. The sight of him lodges in her mind, reminding her of an old dream from her childhood. She decides to figure out where he came from. Erin's hunt leads her to the Tipped Z Ranch, where she signs up for riding lessons with a woman named Nora. Soon, Erin is hooked. She enjoys Nora and adores the horses. But the cowboy she saw that first day is still around. He's Nora's brother, Clint, and he's always at the edge of things—a distracting and watchful presence. Then Clint asks to stand in as Erin's instructor for a day. Erin goes in nervous, not knowing what to expect. Clint is a master horseman. She can't imagine why he'd be interested in spending time with someone who still has so much to learn. ---- A Man Who Rides can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the first book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.
Holly lost everything when her husband was thrown in prison. Divorced and broke, the only thing she has to fall back on is her cousin's offer to set her up in a little house at the edge of a ranch called the Tipped Z. Holly has never spent time on a working ranch before. Though she grew up wealthy in California and once hoped to complete on horseback in the Olympics, by the time her cousin's wife invites her to go riding she hasn't been in a saddle in 20 years. She's not that interested in the idea of climbing onto a stock horse. But then she runs into her former trainer and secret love of her youth, Diego. She can't help but hope he'll be her second chance to live the life she feels she missed out on. Meanwhile, there's a mansion going up on the ridge behind her tiny house. It's presence represents the loss of important grazing to the Tipped Z. Holly finds herself with an opportunity to help the owner with his own horses. She needs the money, and she finds she doesn't mind spending time with the super friendly and super rich Luke Rastenhaus despite the fact her cousin despises him. Suddenly riding with Diego, Luke, and also at the ranch, Holly finds herself pulled in three very different directions. She realizes she's going to have to deal with some unresolved aspects of her past if she hopes to figure out which path forward will lead to happiness. --- Vaquera's Haven can be read as a stand-alone novel, but it is the fourth book in the Tipped Z series. These novels combine horsemanship, family, love, and the Tucson desert into thoughtful, heart-warming reads.
The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous—yet unacknowledged—conceptual touchstone across the European long nineteenth century. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans embarked on a new way of classifying the world, devising genealogies that determined degrees of relatedness by tracing heritage through common ancestry. This methodology organized historical systems into family trees in a wide array of new disciplines, transforming into siblings the closest contemporaneous terms on trees of languages, religions, races, nations, species, or individuals. In literature, a sudden proliferation of siblings—often incestuously inclined—negotiated this confluence of knowledge and identity. In all genealogical systems the sibling term, not quite same and not quite other, serves as an active fault line, necessary for and yet continuously destabilizing definition and classification. In her provocative book, Stefani Engelstein argues that this pervasive relational paradigm shaped the modern subject, life sciences, human sciences, and collective identities such as race, religion, and gender. The insecurity inherent to the sibling structure renders the systems it underwrites fluid. It therefore offers dynamic potential, but also provokes counterreactions such as isolationist theories of subjectivity, the political exclusion of sisters from fraternal equality, the tyranny of intertwined economic and kinship theories, conflicts over natural kinds and evolutionary speciation, and invidious anthropological and philological classifications of Islam and Judaism. Integrating close readings across the disciplines with panoramic intellectual history and arresting literary interpretations, Sibling Action presents a compelling new understanding of systems of knowledge and provides the foundation for less confrontational formulations of belonging, identity, and agency.
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