Martha Gilstrap’s fantasy novel, The Slipaway Trail (ISBN 978-0-9887500-4-3, e-book, & 978-0-9887500-5-0,
paperback, Adult, 501 pages) was released on October 12, 2013 by Slipaway Trail Publishing. The book is available at Amazon.com and CreateSpace.com or directly from author by email.
The
tallgrass is a wild place of hills and ravines, blue sky and freedom. The
daughter of a stable owner, Kahpur can do things–without being seen–that other
women would never risk, like riding horses. She’s a better rider and knows more
about horses than most men, but for a woman riding at all is scandalous. Not
even her betrothed knows about it. When he’s injured in an accident triggered
by her actions, she desperately seeks a “legendary healer” mentioned by the
town drunk. And that’s only the beginning of adventures they couldn’t have
imagined. Not to mention a handsome bandit she meets!
Martha Gilstrap has been a writer
all her life, passing around the latest installments of a never-finished novel
in her junior high science class, long before she earned a B.A. in English. Her
family’s oral tradition claims descent from the legendary Leif Erickson, a
story of which she is inordinately proud, although her mother always wondered
why she’d claim “that old pirate.” She studied Ryu-Te® Karate for eighteen
years while writing, editing and publishing the international newsletter,
taking Japanese language classes, and studying iaido, the sword-drawing art–in
addition to a full-time job and a family.
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