Lara's Gift

Lara's Gift by O'Brien, Annemarie. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780307931740.

Young Lara is being groomed in the family tradition to take over as Count Voronstovs next kennel steward, breeding borzoi dogs worthy of the Tsar. But then Laras baby brother is born and she finds herself supplanted as her father decides to make her brother the next kennel steward. Going against her fathers wishes and becoming increasingly sure of her special gift of understanding these incredible dogs, Lara risks everything when she reveals the truth about her visions. Now she must save Zar, her favorite borzoi and the one she raised from birth, from a hungry pack of wolves. Only then can she find her own, extraordinary destiny. . . .