• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Adriana Kraft

Adriana Kraft

When it's time to heat things up...

  • Home
  • About Adriana
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Privacy Policy

California Chrome, The Kentucky Derby, and Us! #free book

April 29, 2014 by Adriana Kraft Leave a Comment

What do these four items have in common?

California Chrome
The Kentucky Derby
Los Alamitos
Adriana Kraft

It’s a bit of a stretch, but stick with me here: California Chrome is far and away the favorite for the running of this year’s Kentucky Derby May 3. He’ll try to be the first Cal-bred horse to win the Derby, and where does he train? Not at Los Angeles’ premier thoroughbred track Santa Anita, but at mid-level Los Alamitos, which runs both thoroughbreds and quarter horses.

The link to Adriana Kraft? There are two, actually. We’re huge racing fans. We’ve been to the Kentucky Derby twice, the Belmont Stakes once, and three L.A. area tracks: Hollywood Park (now closed), Santa Anita, and Los Alamitos. But here’s the kicker – we once owned a thoroughbred mare who raced and won at – guess where – Los Alamitos! Here’s a photo of Fali Kay crossing the finish line for her win several years ago.

Fali Kay Los Alamitos

The characters in our upcoming release Heat Wave aren’t handling Kentucky Derby contenders – yet. Maggie Anderson is just trying to establish a solid race horse stable and breeding program so she can succeed at her local Iowa track, Prairie Meadows. But the trainer she’s found to help her get her start is a Derby quality trainer down on his luck, so who knows where the future might take them?

Here’s the cover, blurb and an excerpt when they run their first race at Prairie Meadows, the (fictional, of course) Inaugural Stakes.

Heat Wave, Book Two in our Riders Up series, will be available at Amazon April 30.

FREE BOOK

Book One, Cassie’s Hope, is FREE at Amazon today through Kentucky Derby day, May 3, at this link: http://www.amazon.com/ebook/dp/B00GDWTUGY/

 

Heat-Wave-ebook-web

BLURB

During an oppressive Iowa summer of drought and farm foreclosures, widowed Maggie Anderson makes a bold decision: She’ll merge her love of horses and her family’s three hundred and twenty acres into a horse farm and try her hand at nearby Prairie Meadows Race Track, where racing purses have just been augmented by the recently added casino gambling.

Down on his luck after being falsely accused in a racing scandal and banned from training, former Arlington Race Track trainer Ed Harrington has slunk home to Des Moines to drown his sorrows and wait for the dust to clear. He’s unprepared for the piercing robin’s-egg-blue eyes of pint-sized Maggie Anderson, who finds him at a flophouse and offers him a job. Can he pull himself together and meet the challenge?

As the two forge a tumultuous working partnership, they soon discover someone is out to get Maggie’s farm and will stop at almost nothing to force her off the land. Can they find and stop the culprit before someone is killed? Can they survive the far greater danger unleashed by the raw passion simmering just beneath the surface of their relationship?

EXCERPT

Maggie stared so hard at the starting gate her eyes hurt. At last the gate sprang open and the horses were racing. She was surprised at how quickly Capote’s Dream raced to the front of the pack. Front running horses had won nearly every race that day. Crossing her fingers, she urged her horse on. He entered the backstretch four lengths in front. This was a critical juncture in the race. Would he maintain his speed around the turn? Or would the closers pass him by?

Maggie stood and screamed encouragement along with her kids and Cassie. Not able to see around the burly man in front of her, Maggie stood on her seat in time to see the finish.

No one would catch Capote’s Dream this day. He continued to stretch his lead, crossing the finish line six lengths in front of his nearest competitor. Maggie’s ears went temporarily deaf from her children’s screams and her own. She hugged herself and then her kids. This couldn’t be happening. But it was. It most definitely was.

“Hurry,” Cassie shouted. “We have to get to the winner’s circle. Follow me.”

Cassie led them to the winners circle. After their picture was taken with Dream, Carolyn protectively carried the yellow and blue Inaugural Stakes blanket in her arms. Johnny couldn’t stop jumping up and down. And Maggie felt like she could spend a week in bed without ever waking up.

 

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Excerpts

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Email Newsletter

Sign up HERE for our Newsletter and get a free download of this erotic romance novella!

Buy Adriana’s Books

  • Amazon
  • Amazon UK
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Sea to Sky Books

Three-way fantasies? Curious about Swinging? Click above for our Swing Lifestyle series.

 

What if three (or more) people fall in love? Click above for our polyamory stories.

 

Looking for one woman, one man, hot sex, and perilous danger? Click above.

REVIEWS


Erotic Romance “Seducing Cat is a Must Read…Hot in all the right places!”


Love Bites and Silk Ties
Romantic Suspense: Mystery and Romance are woven well in The Painter is a Lady.


Romantic Suspense: “The Unmasking is a fascinating tale…some emotionally trying scenes.”


Erotic Romance FFM Menage: “Edgy characters, inclusive sexuality…The Reunion is not for the faint of heart.”


Erotic Romance FFM Menage: “The intimacy is genuine and breathtaking”

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 6,008 other subscribers

Great Guests!

The Romance Reviews

Like and Follow our Author Page at SwingTowns!

If you're curious about polyamory and the swing lifestyle, Swing Towns is a great place to check it all out!

Request an Authorgraph!

Categories

  • A Day in Adriana's Life
  • Blog
  • Boomers
  • Contests
  • Erotic Romance
  • Excerpts
  • Guest Bloggers
  • Health & Fitness
  • Interviews
  • LGBT
  • Menage
  • More About Adriana
  • Romantic Suspense
  • Stay Healthy
  • Stay Sexy
  • Stay Sexy ~ Stay Healthy
  • Swing Lifestyle
  • Toys Etc.
  • Uncategorized

Contact Adriana

Want to get in touch? Click here to send us an email.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

Copyright © 2022 · Genesis Sample on Genesis Framework · Site designed by Writer Marketing Services.

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Reject Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT
 

Loading Comments...