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"warm contemporary romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 30, 2002

At a Virginia horse auction, A.J. Sutherland buys four-year- old thoroughbred Sabbath for thirty thousand dollars though the steed has a nasty reputation and her stepbrother, the family finance expert Peter Conrad, objected. Following her instincts, A.J. pays with her own personal money. When she returns to Sutherland Stables, Read more...

"Excellent Horse Story"
Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted October 14, 2002

It was love at first sight. One look at the beautiful black stallion and A.J. was a goner. A.J. Sutherland is the daughter of the owner of the Sutherland Stables and as soon as she sees the stunning stallion, Sabbath, she knows that she has to have him. Read more...

Summary

Her dreams are within reach...

All she has to do is learn to hold on...

A beautiful young woman with a defiant spirit, A. J. Sutherland spends a small fortune on a horse with a wild reputation, and is forced to sacrifice her position at her family's stables to keep him. She plans to ride the magnificent stallion in the biggest event of the show jumping season and she knows she can win. But without the backing of Sutherland Stables, A. J. must rely on a stranger to help her: a man who makes her heart pound, her head spin . . . and who just happens to be a legend in equestrian circles.

When Devlin McCloud's career was cut short by a tragic accident, he never expected to get back in the ring. But when A. J. asks him to be her trainer, he finds he cannot resist the chance?or his stunning new employer. And what begins as a business arrangement soon becomes something deeper, as Devlin and A. J. learn that even in a sport full of hazards, sometimes the most dangerous thing to risk is one's heart. .