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L R Trovillion
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Horse Gods: The Dressage Rider’s Betrayal
Teens
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I Bought the Farm! What Have I Done?
In this excerpt, the main character was forced to move to Texas and stay with an aunt in a totally alien environment. Moves can be stressful! I remember the night my family moved into our new house on a "farm" with a few acres for the horses. We had been living in a townhouse, so the change of lifestyle was daunting. The farm needed so much work: the pastures were overgrown, the barn dirty, the fences all needed to be replaced, but it was my dream to have the horses on my own place. The night we moved, we were all so exhausted and overwhelmed by what we had done. After all, my husband and I still had full time jobs, graduate school, and a 3-year old to care for, in addition to the horses and farm upkeep. That night, my daughter tearfully cried, "Mom, I want to go home!" I almost dissolved into tears beside her, but it worked out in the end. It became our farm, our home.
Book Excerpt
Horse Gods: The Dressage Rider’s Betrayal
She pinches my arm. The corner of her mouth turns up. “So, not to change subjects or anything, but how hot were the cowboys in Texas? You must have had some working at your aunt’s ranch? C’mon, details.”
Another bad topic. The mention of cowboys, and I smell the hot beer breath on my face and feel the rough hand groping up under my shirt. He had me by my ponytail. It never paid to be caught in the tack room alone after dark when Aunt Sophia’s workers were hanging out drinking. That night, I took the shears to my hair. To change the subject, I do the I’m-going-to-vomit sign. “Nah. Only if you like toothless, smelly fat guys. No hot ones like on the covers of those romance books you read.”
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