Badly wounded by the war she protested, a high-profile military spouse develops a powerful healing bond with a wild horse and risks her life to save him in the Appalachian backcountry even as he is saving her, and then risks everything else to expose the Pentagon's crimes. 

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After losing everything she loves to the Iraq War, Stacy Bannerman (40s), a high-profile military spouse, is so severely traumatized that she’s considered irreparable by mental health providers. Her choices are suicide or Spero, a feral rescue horse whose name means hope. She narrowly chooses the horse, who has his own traumatic memory. They take their first steps on their healing journey when Stacy’s father dies unexpectedly. Reeling with grief, she battles money problems, losing the farm, disability claim denials, and terrifying flashbacks. Just when she thinks she’s safe, her combat veteran ex-husband calls with death threats, and her horse runs into the Appalachian backcountry. Stacy sets out to save Spero if it’s the last thing she does, tearing apart barbed wire fence and taking on a bear. The mountain gets her blood, sweat, skin and tears. She gets reborn. Stacy reclaims her power and her voice to end the epidemic of Military Domestic Violence.