Today’s teaser looks at the fifth book in my young adult series, Thoroughbred Breeders. Below is an affiliate link to Focus on Amazon. It is also free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

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Savannah found she had an opportunity that Sunday evening. She arrived back at Nestleby by 8 and was surprised to find the lights on in the stables where the yearlings were kept. She strolled over to investigate. Nev was standing outside one of the boxes, watching a yearling pace back and forth. She frowned when she realised it had a bandage on the near fore.

That’s new. I hope it’s nothing too serious.

“Trouble?” she asked, wondering what Nev was up to when the bandage looked secure and the other horses seemed settled.

“Hey bub,” Nev acknowledged her, “Just trying to motivate myself to change that thing! We didn’t get around to it earlier in the day as things got away from us, but it needs changing. Doc said to change it every other day and once things settle down, we can stretch the bandage changes out a little longer.”

Savannah nodded, wondering if he should be attempting such a thing with a worked up colt without assistance, or whether she should volunteer to help him. She knew that her study was important and that she needed to get some done that evening. Plus she planned to crash early, knowing sleep was just as important.

“What did he do?”

“Reared up and caught himself on the feeder, little terror. It’s ok; he freed himself just as quickly but managed to break the skin and cause a bit of swelling. As long as it doesn’t get infected, there should be little to show for it once the sales are here. How was your weekend?”

“Great, thanks. It’s always nice to catch up with the family and I got heaps of study done on Saturday.”

“I know I don’t follow all your mad study stuff closely, but isn’t it semester break? I thought you didn’t start back until March?”

Savannah laughed and nodded.

“I took on an extra subject over summer school. I want to get this degree done and I hate the idea of not studying when I have the time!”

Nev grinned at her and she felt herself grow warm.

“Although… time is a funny word. Even though it’s only one subject at the moment, I am finding that it is pretty full on alongside yearling preparation.”

Her boss nodded.

“Glad it’s you and not me, bub. But don’t you normally have to go up north for a few days for your study?”

Savannah agreed that she did.

“Except this one is optional. That’s why I picked it. I wanted to be able to do the study but wasn’t sure I could get time off in the middle of a sale preparation to go.”

Nev took a drag on his cigarette before turning his focus back to the pacing colt. The horse was watching the pair of them as he walked.

“So how many days is this one, Savvy?”

She glanced at the older male in surprise.

“Three,” she murmured before checking the colt’s feeder.

She realised he had eaten everything and his hay was quite low. Out of habit she ducked to the bales of hay at the end of the aisle and grabbed two biscuits to put into his hay rack.

“So when is it?”

Savannah frowned, thinking back to the dates.

“Umm… January 22 – 24… it falls on weekdays… the Monday to Wednesday after my weekend on,” she informed him.

Nev took a last drag on his cigarette and butted it out under his shoe.

“Tell you what, Savvy. I’m going to get a coffee and I’ll be back out here in ten minutes. If you organise the bandaging gear and help me change this fella’s leg, you can have those three days off to attend your uni thing. Deal?”

He didn’t even wait around for her response, but turned on his heel and headed back toward his house. Savannah stared after him, amazed.

Her attention was quickly drawn back to the pacing colt as he snorted at some hay that was poking his nose. She laughed and headed to the medications room, making sure she had plenty of cotton wool, a gauze dressing, some cream and wrapping bandages.

“Helping the boss tend to a horse quickly before bed gets me three days off work to focus on study – thank you God!”

By the time Nev returned, Savannah had all the bandaging items sitting in a bucket waiting and a head collar on the fidgety colt. With a cheeky grin Savannah told him he’d better get to work as she had some study to do.

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Today’s teaser looks at the third book in my young adult series, Thoroughbred Breeders. Below is an affiliate link to Yearling Sales on Amazon. It is also free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

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Before too long the three men were enjoying lunch. Craig was still surprised by his workmates choosing to have something hot to eat on such a hot day. Mentally shrugging it off, he enjoyed the rest of his salad sandwich. When his gaze focused back on Jay, he was surprised to find an amused smirk covering his features. Finishing his sandwich he raised his brows in question.

“What are you smirking about?” he finally asked.

Jay shrugged.

“I was just thinking…”

“Spit it out,” Craig said with a grin, knowing he was about to be ribbed for something.

“Oh, it’s just that today seemed a pretty convenient distraction for you. Great that you got to focus on a complicated trimming job to keep you occupied.”

“And why would I need distracting?” Craig asked with a grin, certain Jay was talking about the sales and Savannah.

“Oh I don’t know… maybe because a certain young woman will be away for the next week and a half?” he suggested brazenly.

“Katie?” Craig asked innocently, pleased when Rick choked on his drink.

Jay laughed and threw a chip at him.

“Nice. You know I wasn’t talking about Katie.”

“Of course not; that brunette is all yours,” Craig teased, noting with a smile that Jay had the decency to blush.

“I think I need to change the topic before all of this banter results in a fist fight,” Rick declared, standing up.

Craig laughed.

“I don’t tend to rise to the bait,” he commented, taken aback when Rick burst out laughing.

“What did I say?” Craig asked in surprise, standing beside his boss.

“Oh, nothing. It just seems… from what Flynn tells me, you’re pretty handy with those fists!”

Craig felt himself flush as he thought back to the classmate at TAFE whom he had punched. He refrained from defending his actions to his boss. Whatever Flynn had said, Craig had only hit him to save Flynn from a thorough beating.

“I don’t make a habit of it,” he said simply as he took a sip of his drink, earning a nod from Rick in return.

The three men headed back to their cars. Craig took a long swig from his bottle of juice.

“I believe you, mate. In fact, Flynn said as much himself. He was telling me the other week that it was his duty to be the gentleman and bow out from trying to win Savannah’s affections. And all because you’d saved him from getting hurt at that TAFE facility of yours by decking another fella that was giving him a beating.”

It was Craig’s turn to choke on his drink.

“He said what?” he asked, incredulous.

Rick laughed and nodded as he opened the car door and got into the driver’s seat.

“Just what I said, mate. Flynn was backing off from Savannah so that you could have a chance. It was the right thing to do, considering you’d helped him stand up to that hot shot Rob when he’d been bad mouthing Savannah.”

Craig pulled the passenger door closed beside him and did up his seat belt. He wasn’t sure how to respond to that. In the end, he concluded it was best to just be thankful that Flynn was backing off from Savannah – whatever the reason he put forward. He had a sneaking suspicion that it had something to do with the fact that she’d told him in no uncertain terms that she wasn’t going to go out with him.

At the end of the day, it didn’t matter. Flynn appeared to be out of the picture and he was more than happy to be able to focus on Savannah without another male vying for her interest. He turned his attention back to Rick and grinned.

“Well, all I can say to that is that I’m glad Flynn has decided to be a gentleman.”

Rick roared with laughter as he pulled out of his parking spot and headed back out of town. They had two more farms to visit before they were done for the day.

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