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​​Love, heartbreak and excitement at the Highland horse farm

Stiepeler author Rebecca Loebbert has published her next book

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The young Stiepeler author Rebecca Loebbert is making a change of genre with the publication of her next book. After the historical novel "The Celtic Tapestry", which came out in May last year (as reported by the Stiepeler Bote), this time it's about a romantic feel-good story. Reality and fiction are mixed when Loebbert's own Welsh B pony, Silvano, takes on a role in the novel, entitled The Little Horse Farm in the Highlands. "I'm particularly fond of him and wanted to dedicate something to him," says the student, who lives most of the year in Inverness, Scotland.

In the largest city in the Highlands, she is studying literature and Scottish history at the University of the Highlands and Islands, planning her master's and doctorate and her future life as a university teacher and as a novelist. "I like planning for the future and I like making commitments," says the 22-year-old, "but often something comes up that makes me deviate from the actual plan again."

While her first work was about a fictional story against a real historical background, "The Little Horse Farm in the Highlands" now offers entertainment literature in which she wants to balance suspense, romance and humor in an easy-to-consume way. The 352 printed pages are themed around love, heartbreak, second chances, horse tales and intense looks at the beauty of the Scottish Highlands.  

A quick look at the content doesn't reveal everything, but at least this: The protagonist Rowan is afraid of being exploited by a man again. After being betrayed and abandoned by her ex-boyfriend, she vowed to herself: Horses are the better men - and the only ones she will ever let back into her life. She works in a bookstore, writes articles for its customer magazine and she gets love every day from her little white pony Silvano, onto whom she projects all her love. Her best friend Alyson, on the other hand, is a romantic and wishes that Rowan would finally break her shadow and understand that there are "good" men too. But all their efforts and persuasion remain unsuccessful. Until one day a stranger shows up in the stable. Tristan is handsome, charming and a first class rider. He even manages to gain Rowan's trust. However, others are also interested in the handsome newcomer. His arrival soon triggers a series of strange events in the area that endanger not only Tristan and his horse, but everyone else at the pony farm as well...

Christmas and the turn of the year recently gave Rebecca Loebbert another opportunity to visit her family and friends in Stiepel and Welsh-B-Pony Silvano. In the future, there will be fewer visits to the south of Bochum, because Pony Silvano will move to Scotland in the summer and Rebecca's parents are also planning to live in their daughter's favorite country - at least for a few months a year.    

Living from writing, according to Stiepelerin's dream, is not yet possible. But the entry into the business has been successful and the first fees are being paid by the publishers these days. "For a while I was the publisher's best-selling author with 'The Celtic Gobelin'," says the 22-year-old, who will soon be publishing another novel with a historical background and who has also signed the contract for a sequel to "The Little Horse Farm in the Highlands".