Heartbreak and Heroes

By Iris Tuftin

Book 2 of the Double H Ranch Series. A beautiful but spoiled and resentful teenage girl, whose Olympic-bound brother has claimed what she considers the love and attention of her parents, spends the summer at the Hollis ranch. Involvement in the family’s activities of gymkhana, 4-H and rodeo give her opportunity to learn that giving is more rewarding than taking. However, an unbearably sad event is linked to the fulfillment of her selfish obsession. But is she to blame?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Iris Tuftin
• Release date: Dec 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310312816

Iris Tuftin

Iris Tuftin, a retired school teacher, has lived the rodeo life. Although she didn’t grow up with horses, she was introduced to them by her husband, Nels, and soon became a knowledgeable and proficient horse person. Over the years, the family involved themselves in gymkhana, 4-H and rodeo.Both sons qualified to the National Finals High School Rodeo and went on to make names for themselves at the professional level, Daren as a bullfighter and clown, and Dean as a team roper, becoming the first Canadian to qualify to the NFR in that event.Iris and Nels have competed in team roping, with Nels claiming a Canadian Senior championship, but Iris’ claim to fame in rodeo proved to be in the barrel racing event. She was a multiple amateur champion, a qualifier to the Canadian Finals Rodeo in the mid 80’s, and a Canadian Senior Pro barrel champion.Iris and Nels live in central Alberta, Canada, hauling their horses south to their Arizona winter home for training.Music has always played a major role in Iris’ life as she played and sang in family bands from a young age and still performs with an all-female band called The Hinge.

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