Sara Gruen

While her husband, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into Ellis' father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.

Annemarie, a world-class equestrienne whose dreams of Olympic glory were destroyed at age eighteen when she was injured and her horse killed in a riding accident, returns to her parents' riding school in New Hampshire twenty years later as a divorced mother with her troubled daughter in tow, and finds herself drawn back into the world she had vowed to leave behind forever.

A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...