Synopsis of the novel Palomino

Samantha is a beautiful woman. Her long shining hair was whitening in the sun, and her face was getting tanned a rich honey-brown as beautiful as palomino. Palomino is a kind of horse.
Samantha Taylor is also a talented woman. She is the assistant creative director’s success advertising in New York. She has good career and she often gets award from her advertisements. Her partners are Charlie and Harvey. They always work together well. She considers Charlie and Harvey as her own family.
One time she is shattered when her husband, John leaves her for another woman. They have married for seven years but do not get child. John met Liz in the election coverage a year before. Liz has something he desperately wants; she has a quality that he needs, a kind of low profile that pleased him. He and Samantha are too much alike in some ways, too visible, too spectacular, too quick, and too beautiful. He likes Liz’s sensible plainness,
her less-dazzling intelligence, her quiet style, her willingness to take a backseat, to be obscure, while helping him to be more of what he was. She is the perfect foil for him; it was why they worked so well as a team. He does not feel anxious when he was with her, he does not have to complete. He is automatically the star.
And there is more to it, she is pregnant and it is his child, he knows it. It is the one thing he wants more than all else. It is what he always wants, and what Samantha can not give him. It had taken the doctors three years to discover what the problem is, and when they do, they are sure. Samantha is sterile. She really loses John.
Pain has given way to fury, which lead to sorrow, which grew to grief, which reverts once again to anger. It is as though there is no one, no one to whom she belongs, no one who cares. Her father had died when she was in college, her mother lives in Atlanta with a man she found charming but whom Samantha does not. He is a doctor, and pompous and self-satisfied as hell. But at least her mother is happy. Anyway, Sam is not close to her mother, and it is not to her that she could turn.
She decides to put her advertising career on hold and seeks refuge at a friend’s California ranch, where she loses herself in the daily labor of ranch life. She lives with Caroline who has a large ranch. Here, she discovers the healing powers of trusted friends, simple joys, and hard work. She meets Tate Jordan, the ranch foreman, and a tumultuous relationship ensued. They love each other. She feels that she gets real love from him. None knows their special relationship. Samantha is the rancher but Tate is the ranch foreman. In a ranch, the relationship between the ranchers and the ranch foreman is prohibited. Tate always refuses to marry her. Tate also leaves her because they had different level. Tate has to do it although he loves Samantha so much.
Samantha is hurt and sad. She looks for him for a month but he is not found. Then she decides to go back to New York and going to work in her firm. She gets a new project to make an advertisement related to the horse. She goes to the ranch in Arizona. Unluckily, when she rides a horse, she falls. It changes Samantha’s life forever. She is confined to a wheelchair and may look deep inside herself to find the courage to begin again. Now, fighting the battles of the handicapped, she finds sound new challenges, new loves, and even the adopted child she is always longed for. She gets Tate again and adopts Timmie as her child.