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Abby Lovett In Jane Austen's True Blue
Imagine you’re a horse rider, you live at a ranch and suddenly somebody offers you a horse... for free! Would you take it? Abby Lovett would... until she realizes it’s haunted by its former (and dead) owner who mysteriously died in a car crash just days before.
Abby is a horse-crazy 8th grader who falls in love with True Blue, an attentive horse who always seems like he sees something that scares him, spooks at nothing and canters away with his rider for no reason. While Abby tries to teach him western, she wonders what he is seeing... until she sees it too... a ghost.
A slender woman with long black hair is haunting the large, beautiful Californian ranch. Ever since they got True Blue, she has kept coming back for her horse. But can Abby fend
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