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“Only you can do this.” #WeWriWa #MFRWAuthor #RomanticSuspense

April 1, 2018 by Adriana Kraft 8 Comments

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, where writers share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of their writing on Sunday.  Be sure to visit other participants at http://www.wewriwa.com/  and read and comment on their #8sunday posts.

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The Kentucky Derby is only five weeks away! From now at least through the Derby, we’ll take you on a whirlwind tour of the horse racing industry, the setting for our four-book romantic suspense series, Riders Up. Here’s a snippet from Book One, Cassie’s Hope:

EXCERPT

Set-Up: Cassie’s agreed to come home to her dad’s horse farm in Northern Illinois for six months to train horses for him after his stroke. He has a plan…

“Only you can do this—I want you to take Cassie’s Hope to Wyoming Downs. They have a stakes race comin’ up May seventeenth—that’s sayin’ a lot more than it is—but it’s a decent race.”

“Wyoming Downs,” Cassie squeaked, her eyes rounding. “Where the hell is that?”

“It happens to be in Wyoming.”

“You want me to haul a horse half way across the country to find her confidence? Why not Prairie Meadows or Canterbury?”

Cassie saw the cagey glint dancing in her father’s eyes. Every horse trainer, every horse player had to have an angle, and she was about to hear one more.

“Altitude—if we train the filly in the mountains, she’ll have a tremendous edge when we run her back here.”

 

Cassie’s Hope is the first romance my husband and I ever wrote together – more years ago than I’d care to admit. What we finally published bears very little resemblance to that early manuscript. We had so much to learn! Even so, we got encouraging feedback from a few editors we submitted to (in the days when everything was hard copy)!

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Because we love to celebrate the Kentucky Derby, starting next weekend and through Derby weekend May 5, we’ll be offering free downloads of each book in the series. If you follow our Author Page at Amazon, you’ll get an alert when each free promo begins. Enjoy!

BLURB

High stakes, a fiery Irish redhead, her stunning racehorse, and a fiercely loyal rancher

What happens when a fiercely loyal widowed half-Ute cowboy meets a fiery redhead with an Irish temper to match? Cassidy O’Hanlon – Cassie, to her friends – has set aside her Chicago career for six months to train racehorses for her dad after his stroke.

Furious the interloper has shipped in a ringer from the Chicago circuit to his Wyoming turf, Rancher/trainer Clint Travers sets out to put her in her place. Sparks fly immediately, but after their rocky start, the two quickly forge a passionate relationship, and he follows her to Chicago.

When it becomes clear someone is drugging Cassie’s horse, Clint sets out to solve the mystery, but storms off in a cloud of wounded pride when suspicions turn to him.

Can love trump pride?

Book Information:

Cassie’s Hope
Riders Up, Book One
ISBN-13: 978-0-9894693-4-0
ASIN B00GDWTUGY
B&B Publishing:
November, 2013
Novel: 71,000 words
Cover Artist: Rebecca Poole
Three flames:  Explicit sex: M/F

REVIEW: Five Stars at Goodreads: “…I took their journey with them. I felt their pain, their sadness, their struggles, and most of all their love. And that is the mark of a truly good book.”  Faith

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  1. Elyzabeth M. VaLey says

    April 1, 2018 at 6:40 am

    Great snippet. I imagine she can’t argue against his logic, can she?

    Reply
  2. Daryl Devore says

    April 1, 2018 at 8:48 am

    Training a horse – up in the mountains – sounds like a great plan. Tweeted.

    Reply
  3. Amy Braun says

    April 1, 2018 at 10:14 am

    Sounds like someone’s going on an adventure!

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  4. Christiane France says

    April 1, 2018 at 11:56 am

    Love horses. Love the storyline. Great job!

    Reply
  5. Ed Hoornaert says

    April 1, 2018 at 4:51 pm

    She can’t convince him that riding the horse a couple times around the field will be satisfactory?

    Reply
  6. Hywela Lyn says

    April 1, 2018 at 5:58 pm

    Oh, as a horse lover I really like the premise of this story – and the cover is gorgeous! Great snippet!

    Reply
  7. Jenna Jaxon says

    April 1, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    That does sound like a great plan. But does Dad have an ulterior motive as well? I love books about horses! Great snippet!

    Reply
  8. Veronica Scott says

    April 1, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    I like the way he thinks! Sounds like her Dad’s kind of a handful…enjoyed the excerpt!

    Reply

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