Jackie Anton
Jackie Anton is an accomplished equestrian with a lifetime of experience: as trainer, exhibitor, 4-H and youth club coach, as well as a horse show judge. The author brings many years of working with horses and young riders to her award-winning Backyard Horse Tales Series.
Uncharted Storms is a collection of short stories aimed at Young Adult and older readers. Look for more short tales in the future.
Backyard Horse Tales: Sox 2nd Edition brings to light the mutual love between a handicapped colt and a lonely child with a learning disability. Find out how this pair team up to triumph over life’s roadblocks, and why their story won the prestigious Mom’s Choice Award of Excellence for Family Friendly Media. (Reading level age 8 through Adult)
BYHT 2 “Frosty and the Nightstalker” was one of four finalists in the E-Book Fiction category for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Then the paperback went on to earn the Mom’s Choice Award for Juvenile Historical Fiction.
The Author uses the Pen Name, JM Anton for her Adult 18+ Books.
Jackie is a mother of two grown children and grandmother of two. She and her husband of fifty-two years continue to ride daily. They live on a mini farm in rural Ohio and share their little slice of horse heaven with two Quarter Horses, a Haflinger, 3 rescued dogs and a barn cat.
Uncharted Storms is a collection of short stories aimed at Young Adult and older readers. Look for more short tales in the future.
Backyard Horse Tales: Sox 2nd Edition brings to light the mutual love between a handicapped colt and a lonely child with a learning disability. Find out how this pair team up to triumph over life’s roadblocks, and why their story won the prestigious Mom’s Choice Award of Excellence for Family Friendly Media. (Reading level age 8 through Adult)
BYHT 2 “Frosty and the Nightstalker” was one of four finalists in the E-Book Fiction category for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Then the paperback went on to earn the Mom’s Choice Award for Juvenile Historical Fiction.
The Author uses the Pen Name, JM Anton for her Adult 18+ Books.
Jackie is a mother of two grown children and grandmother of two. She and her husband of fifty-two years continue to ride daily. They live on a mini farm in rural Ohio and share their little slice of horse heaven with two Quarter Horses, a Haflinger, 3 rescued dogs and a barn cat.
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Backyard Horse Tales: Sox 3rd Edition
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Juvenile Fiction
Sox finds himself in an alien world the night he is born. His mother is there with him and he quickly adapts. His Mom answers all his questions about his new environment. She explains things, and reassures him. Everything is a new experience for Sox. Little Emma is his best friend. Emma is living with her grandmother until her mother returns home from deployment Not used to living in a rural area she is very lonely and feels like a duck out of water. Little Sox brightens up her world and a life long bond is formed. Excerpts of Emma's diary will helps us to understand a very special relationship as Sox grows from a foal to a colt and eventually a gelding. As time goes by, both horse and child have much to learn and share with the other. Growing up is not always easy... Despite the odds, both Sox and Emma dare to be different and eventually overcome their challenges. Backyard Horse Tales: Sox Sample |
Backyard Horse Tales 2: Frosty and the Nightstalker
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Historical Fiction
Frosty is an Appaloosa colt who undergoes a life changing event the summer he turns two that triggers a strange out of body experience. Is he only having bad dreams or is his strange haunting a result of the collective memories of Appaloosas from a long ago past? Follow Frosty through the twilight between space and time where you will meet the Nightstalker. 2013 Multiple book award recipient. Frosty and the Nightstalker Sample
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Backyard Horse Tales 3: Don't Call Me Love
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Horse Story, Illustrated Horse Adventure, Chapter Book, Horse Thieves
Love is born on a large farm in Hinckley, Ohio where she spends the first year of her life. The first year at her new home is tough for the filly. She gets into one scrape after another. Her saving grace is her love for a small child. She becomes a well traveled youth horse. But Love runs afoul of a gang of horse thieves and ends up thousands of miles from home. Will she be able to get back to her family? Don't Call Me Love Sample
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Fateful Waters: Troubles in Love-Land Book 1
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Contemporary Romance
Do you ever wonder why some people avoid the online match services? Find out what happened to Melinda Potter when she travels half way across the country to meet her match. Fateful Waters is the first book in the "Troubles in Love-Land series. Lexie is coerced into traveling with Melinda to meet her online Romeo. She turns up missing after a flash flood nearly claims her life. One mishap after another plague the two long time friends when they end up in the Texas Panhandle thousands of miles from their Ohio homes. Lexie battles several advisories and her attraction to a tall dark cowboy as she tries to extricate Melinda and herself from the clutches of the drought stricken panhandle. Fateful Waters Sample
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Wind River Refuge Transcendent
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Mystery/Thriller/Historical Romance
Jax runs for her life and is apprehended by the police. She’s sentenced to a juvenile detention facility, at the tender age of twelve. Lockup becomes an unexpected sanctuary for the traumatized child. It affords a safe harbor from her abuser, but she’s plagued by nightmares well into adulthood. Fate and her Grandmother step in to successfully reduce her sentence, and she’s paroled into a distant cousin’s custody, and relocated to a cattle ranch in Wyoming. The young parolee finds the transition difficult at first. She spends the next nine years learning the ropes, making friends, and a couple of powerful enemies. 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards winner in the Romance Category. 
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Panhandle Mayhem: Troubles in Love-Land Book Two
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Contemporary Romance
Lexie would love to know how and when Cutter had convinced her mother that she should spend her Saturday playing tour guide for him while he checked out some farms near the Williams place. She’d protested, in vain, that the Williams boys would be better guides. Lexie Parker's practical mind and cautious nature battle with her attraction to Cutter Ross. Her heart and hormones win out. Lexie soon regrets her rushed courtship and fears she has made a bad decision. Is she in an abusive relationship? All Hell breaks loose while Cutter and Lexie try to hash out their relationship. "Panhandle Mayhem" the second book in the "Troubles in Love-Land Series continues the story of Lexie, Cutter, their friends, and enemies. Panhandle Mayhem Sample
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Cassandra: Night Shades
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Murder Mystery/ Suspense/ Contemporary Romance
Cassandra Hoffman orphaned at the age of five was raised by her maternal grandmother. Two decades pass when she is confronted with a letter from her father’s Denver based attorney. She's shocked to learn that her dad lived through the car crash that took her mother and brothers in 1985. Casey’s haunted nights begin with the death of her father. Who is the shadow man in her dreams? Could it be her dad whom she had believed dead? She discovers he had another family, and some dark secrets Casey sets out to solve the mysteries of her abandonment, and find the answers to the nightshades that threaten her sanity. Our heroine runs afoul of a previously unknown nemesis as she searches for answers, but she also finds the love of her life. He too abandons her, as he struggles with physical and mental wounds from multiple tours in the Middle East. Can Casey forgive him as they confront a mutual enemy? Readers will find the answers in this fast moving murder mystery that includes a bit of romance. Adult entertainment: recommended for readers 18 and up. Cassandra sample
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