Riding With Hope and Resilience by Marlene Wilson is a down home country memoir detailing her life as a working lady cowboy, rancher, and survivor of personal challenges as a successful woman working in a male-dominated industry. The story begins with her reflecting on a major honor—being inducted into the British Columbia Cowboy Hall of Fame, a recognition of her and her family's four generations of ranching history. The memoir explores her early life growing up on a ranch with historical ties to the gold rush, her love of trusty horses, loyal dogs, moo cows and ornery bulls.

Marlene shares valuable lessons about surviving and thriving learned through facing down dangerous cattle, horseback riding injuries, wildfires, overcoming addiction and staying sober, healing from childhood trauma, broken relationships, and the death of her children. She also contended with emotional traumas, including feelings of inadequacy and early incidents of sexual abuse, which influenced her struggle with self-worth and personal relationships later in life.

Through divine intervention and some luck, she found a way to rebuild her life and credits her recovery to moments of spiritual awakening and support from others who helped her overcome addiction and self-destructive behavior.

Her heart warming book is packed with real-life-tested wisdom and ways to stay calm and loving, no matter what crazy thing the herd of animals (or humans) is doing.