Gloss, Molly

Martha Lessen, a nineteen-year-old tomboy, leaves home in 1917 and finds work in Oregon breaking horses left behind by owners away at war, and when she arrives in Shelby, George and Louise Bliss invite her to stay the winter and attempt to socialize the rambling young girl.

Charlotte Bridger Drummond believes she is a fully modern woman, embracing the scientific spirit that is sweeping the nation in the early 1900s, but when she gets lost while searching for a missing child, she is thrown into a mysterious world that not only tests her courage but challenges her entire concept of reality.

Vren, exiled into the dark forest outside the Gates, finds a new life with a friendly weather-worker, until their gentle existence is disrupted by a spellbinder misusing his power.

Nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen travels to eastern Oregon in 1917, hoping to be hired by local ranchers to tame their wild horses, and when George Bliss and his wife invite Martha into their home for the winter, she forms a special bond with the ranch's horses, and the many people she meets while caring for them.