Emily and the Shackleford Horses was one of the original books in the Lucky Penny Press collection and was illustrated by a high school senior who is now a college graduate. With interest from the Museum in Beaufort, North Carolina, Lucky Penny Publishing is re-releasing this book with a new cover design. Emily and the Shackleford Horses is the story of a young girl's fascination with the horses that live on Shackleford Island off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks and the special bond she has with one of them, a mare named, Marilyn, who is pregnant late in the summer season just as Hurricane Isabel, one of the strongest and most damaging, begins to strike the coast in 2003.