The Unseen Wild

By Drew van Niekerk

In the rolling hills where wild herds run free, a young palomino named Popcorn is torn from his family one moonlit night when helicopters and ropes turn the world upside down. Captured and dragged behind tall wooden walls, he finds himself alone among strangers, fighting every saddle and every hand that reaches for him. Then a quiet girl named Ancka walks into his pen, looks at him with kind hazel eyes, and gently begins to change everything. But just as Popcorn learns to trust again, he is sold to a faraway stable, where new trainers, a cheerful chestnut friend named Bolt, and dreams of the family he left behind await him. Through long winters, loud auctions, and the strange, settling work of starting over, Popcorn carries one quiet hope. That somewhere, Ancka has not forgotten him either. A heart-stirring story about courage, wildness, and the discovery that family is not always the herd you were born into. Sometimes it is the person who keeps looking for you, and who is already preparing a place for you before you even know you need one.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZVGBJZY
• ISBN13: 9798195509422
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"