title: The Horse Knows the Way: a Christmas Story
author:  C. C. Vaughan 
description: Christina Vaughan, aka C. C. Vaughan, was born in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Her first six years were spent on her parents' cattle ranch. They moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma after that, where she lived until moving to her mother's native city of San Francisco, and later the North Bay. A pianist, Christina studied music in college, as well as creative writing, but preferred editing and writing. She was the Senior Editor for a small publisher and is now a freelance editor and publishing coordinator. She has written 14 You-Draw-It Books, 4 children's novels, and an adult novel.
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  The Sleigh Bells Chalet
  
  Christmas House Romances Book 2
  
  Jennifer Griffith
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Bing
  
  
  Bing Whitmore stomped toward the stables, the gravel crunching beneath his
  work boots. “It’s not about the loss of income, Freya.”
  
  
  Yes, he should have developed thicker skin for this business by now, but when
  Rose Red’s leg broke, it nearly broke Bing in the same type of complex
  fracture.
  
  
  Splintered him.
  
  
  Yes, horse breeding and racing were risky ventures, and getting too attached
  to individual horses increased the risk exponentially, but the problem was,
  Rose Red’s fracture followed hot on the heels of losing million-dollar Torrey
  Stakes winner Snow White just that summer.
  
  
  “You love the horses.” Freya double-stepped to catch up with him. “More than
  anything or anyone. I get that, Bing.” She brushed the collecting snowflakes
  off her shoulders. “We all do. It’s in our Whitmore blood.”
  
  
  “Then you get why I need to quit.” Quit horses. Quit all of it.
  
  
  “Quit! Owners don’