There comes a moment in everyone's life when stepping out into the unknown seems much safer than trying to survive a familiar place of pain and struggle. Such a moment arrived for Colleen Hannegan when her deepest desires for happiness and freedom forced her to run away from an increasingly violent marriage. Finding strength through the love of her family and friends, Colleen discovers the way back to herself when she takes a walk down to the end of the sidewalk near her new apartment and steps onto the dirt of a wilderness park. In Girl On Bike, Colleen shares her intimate journey of heartbreak and happiness when she buys a mountain bike and learns to ride the trails of Aliso and Woods Canyon Wilderness Park. Nature becomes her go-to-place for exciting adventure, new friends, emotional healing and romance. Struggling to run her retail business alone, fighting to maintain her self-respect through divorce court and continual calls to the sheriff for protection, Colleen rides the wilderness park each Sunday to hold it all together. The story of a girl on a bike will have you riding along the single-track trails and wanting to discover nature's magic elixir of your own, as you follow this exciting story of one woman's unrelenting rides into the truth she knows will set her free. Every trail adventure takes you along the bumpy rides of doubt and worry and fear to the top of the mountain. From there, you'll learn what the fellow riders who come to her rescue, teach her about true friendship, relationships and love. Ride along with the Girl on Bike and let her joy and triumphs fill your heart with the courage to find your way back home

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