Ride on

VIctoria has always loved horses. But riding in competitions is high stakes, high stress, and shockingly expensive. And even though Victoria's best friend Taylor loves competing, Victoria has lost her taste for it.

After a heartbreaking fight with Taylor, Victoria needs a new start at a new stables. A place where she doesn't have to worry about anything other than riding. No competition, no drama, no friends.

Just horses.

Edgewood Stables seems ideal. There are plenty of horses to ride, and Victoria is perfectly happy giving the other riders the cold shoulder.

But can she truly be happy with no friends? (From First Second)

Faith Erin Hicks is an Eisner Award-winning comics creator known for books likeThe Adventures of Superhero GirlandFriends with Boys. The final instalment of her acclaimed Nameless City trilogy,The Divided Earth,featuresthe two misfit friends, Rat and Kai, in a tale that wraps up the popular middle grade fantasy graphic novel series. In 2019, she released her first YA novel,Comics Will Break Your Heart, about a young girl named Miriam from small-town Nova Scotia, whose grandfather was the co-creator of a hit comic series.

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