Winning Ways: a horse mystery by Leland Toni

Author:Leland, Toni [Leland, Toni]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Equine Graphics Publishing/Parallel Press
Published: 2007-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Liz spent the next several days in her truck, bumping along dusty back-roads. Her self-confidence faltered a little each time she met with stony silence or outright rudeness, but she went about her work efficiently, smiling bravely to camouflage her true feelings.

The appointments she’d taken over from Doc were all routine, mostly cattle ranches. As she rattled down yet another dirt lane in the middle of nowhere, she felt the fatigue of the past week as a full-time country vet. For this I spent eight years becoming an equine specialist? The pompous thought jolted her harder than the potholes in the lane. C’mon, don’t be a snob. If you want to practice out here, you’ll have to take all comers.

By the weekend, she’d made farm calls to five cattle ranches, a chicken farmer, and a boarding stable. She’d performed an emergency cesarean section out in a pasture where a champion dairy cow’s twins had tried to arrive simultaneously. Liz’s efforts had saved the calves and the mother, and the old farmer had almost wept with relief. Liz had driven away from the farm with a three-hundred-dollar check in her pocket, and the old man’s assurance that she would be his vet from then on.

In addition to her busy schedule, Liz worked her show horses every morning and night, leaving her little time to think about Kurt, or the widening silence between them. However, when she fell into bed at night, she wrestled with painful memories of Tahoe that robbed her of sleep. He still hadn’t called, and sadness colored all the positive changes that had occurred in her life. Her practice was slowly coming together, and she felt confident that her horses would do well at the regional show, but it wasn’t enough. Her adult life had been filled to overflowing with the needs of others, and she’d willingly taken on those responsibilities, never thinking about her own future. Never allowing herself to dream about a special someone. Now that she’d opened her heart a crack, taken a chance on Kurt, he seemed to have slipped through her fingers.

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