Fiction
On the Buckle
For years, Viola Parker has been riding high—literally. She pilots expensive horses around grand-prix jumper courses. Lately, though, she’s gotten in the habit of misplacing her jobs. She lost one when she discovered the owner involved with insurance fraud, another when she refused to ride a lame horse, and one more when she learned her boss was married—after she’d had an affair with him.
Then, her parents, who left her to be raised by an aunt and uncle, send notice of a trust fund with her name on it—if she can keep a job for one year by the time she is 30, and receive a glowing letter of recommendation. Vi’s cousin, Penny, figures the best way to spend that year is not in New York riding the A Circuit, but in the Midwest, riding on the buckle . . .
Vi is sure her new job on a horse farm in Missouri will lead to death from boredom before the year is out. But within minutes of arriving, she runs head-on into a bull, her horse kicks her new boss, then one of her boss’s horses kicks her, hard. When Wastrel, a dead horse from her past, visits her dreams warning of impending danger, boredom becomes the least of her problems.
Soon the question is not can Vi earn a letter of recommendation, but can she stay alive long enough to get it . . .
Raver
The Horseguard of Cirq keeps its saddles, bridles, and harnesses in gleaming trim, ready for inspection. There’s only one problem: they have no horses.
On a horseback ride in upstate new York, 24-year-old Lauren Roberts tumbles with her stallion, Pindar, through the Ravery into Cirq. What she expects is to ride right back through the portal and home to Earth.
It should be so easy.
The Cirqians proclaim her their long-awaited Horsecaller and have expectations of their own . . .
Horsecaller
After surviving several attempts on her life and calling Cirq’s lost horses, Lauren Roberts, lately of Earth, needs a vacation. Against the advice of her mate, Leinos, she and a small group of followers ride to the coast for a few days of rest. He warns her the sea is for the dead. She does not fully understand what this means, so does not hesitate when Malew, her horse healer, falls in the water. She saves him from drowning, but not without bringing some of the dead out of the sea with them . . .
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