No Time for Horses (26 page)

About the Author

Shannon lives and
works at her family business, Horse Country Farm, just outside of
Granite Falls in Washington State. Teaching kids to ride and know
about horses since 1967, she finds in many cases, she's taught
three generations of families. Her life experiences span adventures
from dealing cards in a casino, attending graduate school to get
her Masters in Teaching degree, being a substitute teacher, and
serving in the Army Reserve - all leading to her second career as a
published author. Visit her at her website,
www.shannonkennedybooks.com
to learn
about her books.

Shamrock Stable Series

Book 1:
No Horse
Wanted

Book 2:
No Time for
Horses

Coming Soon

Book 3:
Nothing But
Horses

Deck the Stalls,
a Shamrock
Stable Holiday Novella

Coming Soon!

Nothing But Horses
Book 3 of the Shamrock Stable Series

If the going
gets tough, the tough exit stage left. Before, her life was nothing
but horses. Now, sixteen-year-old Sierra has a new car, (new to
her), a new puppy, a new school, a new coach and a new basketball
team. She doesn’t realize that she brought the same old pattern
with her into this
‘new’
life. She
still doesn’t have any patience for stupid people who are a waste
of time, space and oxygen. This includes her team-mates, the other
members of her ‘teens at risk’ therapy group and the wanta-be
cowboys or customers at the family riding stable.

When she and her 4-H leader come to an angry
parting of the ways, Sierra decides her mother should start a new
riding club at Shamrock Stable for Sierra and her friends. Her
mother agrees on one condition. Sierra needs to develop patience
and tolerance for two-legged people, not just the four-legged
critters she loves. It’s an uphill struggle, but once she gives her
word, Sierra’s determined to keep it. She will learn to
‘
be nice’
to stupid
people even if it makes her crazy. Of course, she didn’t plan on
the senior who wants to take her to the Spring Fling or her mom’s
new fiancé.

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horse of her own, one with four legs, not four wheels. Mom competes
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and her older sister loves three-day eventing, but Robin proudly
says that she doesn't do horses. She'll teach her controlling
family a lesson by bringing home the worst horse she can find, a
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Robin figures she'll nurse him back to
health, sell him and have the money for her car. Rescuing and
rehabilitating the Morab gelding might be a bigger challenge than
what she planned. He comes between her and her family. He upsets
her friends when she looks after his needs first. Is he just an
investment or is he part of her future? And if she lets him into
her heart will she win or will she lose?

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Viking is a painful reminder of the tragedy, and so he is sold
off.

The black colt has a coarse face and a mean
curl to his nostrils, but he is beautifully proportioned with
magnificent gaits. With his teeth and thick weapon of a tail,
Viking brutalizes everyone who handles him and humiliates the best
trainers in the world until Anne O'Neil from the United States
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The first time she rides him, she declares
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