On the Buckle, Dream Horse Mystery #1

On the Buckle, Dream Horse Mystery #1

by Candace Carrabus
On the Buckle, Dream Horse Mystery #1

On the Buckle, Dream Horse Mystery #1

by Candace Carrabus

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Overview

I'm Viola Parker, known on the circuit as one of the best show-jumper riders around. Some say I have a bit of an attitude, but they don't understand what it takes to deal with certain horse owners. That's why I'm worried about my current situation. I have a surprise trust fund waiting if I can keep a job for one year before I hit 30. Do you know how much crap I'll have to endure to make that happen? It boggles the mind.

Still, I know I can do it with the help of my new rules:
-Don't smart off.
-Don't drink.
-Don't sleep with the boss.

The last of which proves to be a real challenge when I meet the man who just hired me. He's working the surfer good looks, a super-hero jaw, and wearing a kilt, for cryin' out loud!

Right when I think the new job is going to be my typical disaster, I find a dead body on the farm. I didn't sign up for that, but the spirit of my favorite horse begins visiting my dreams, trotting me closer and closer to the killer's identity. That horse, along with his cryptic clues, is impossible to ignore.

Not even the stress-reducing lusciousness of my whipped-cream-in-a-can addiction is going to help me keep my job, let alone get me through this mystery alive.

Candace Carrabus expertly threads the needle between romance and suspense in the first Dream Horse Mystery, On the Buckle. Set on a Midwest horse farm, get ready to meet amateur sleuth Vi Parker who finds herself caught in a thrilling mystery!

˃˃˃ Vi begins her story...

"The truth is, my parents are alive. Pretending they're dead makes their absence in my life tolerable. When the letter came from their attorney--crap--who would have guessed they had a lawyer? Anyway, it was like they were dead because it referred to money I might receive, "amount undisclosed." That was just like them. Jesus. Amount undisclosed. What the hell was that supposed to mean? It could be five dollars for cripe's sake."

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˃˃˃ Check out the entire Dream Horse Mystery Series:
Cold Backed, the short Dream Horse Mystery prequel
On the Buckle, Dream Horse Mystery #1
Run Out, Dream Horse Mystery #2
Wrong Lead, Dream Horse Mystery #3
or get the entire set in the Dream Horse Mysteries Omnibus


Product Details

BN ID: 2940152523546
Publisher: Candace Carrabus
Publication date: 07/08/2014
Series: The Dream Horse Mysteries
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 970,294
File size: 442 KB

About the Author

I have written stories and ridden horses--frequently simultaneously--for as long as I can remember. I grew up on Long Island and spent my formative years in the saddle--just imagining.

Not surprisingly, my stories are usually infused with the mystery and spirituality horses have brought to my life.

My philosophy, in brief :: (No, not in briefs, but that's a nice image, thank you very much.)

We are all immigrants in spirit, with our minds, hearts, and souls being the final frontier.

Yep, that's it.

I've discovered this is what happens to all my main characters--whether by choice or accident or design--they go somewhere else.

They immigrate.

At first, this change is external--physical. Over time, their journeys lead to a place of discovery and growth that is within each individual alone. The final frontier to which we all can go.

Boldly go . . .

Go on.

Go.

Awards and such

Raver -- Book One of the Horsecaller
First place, Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel, Oklahoma Writers Federation, 2003
First place, Paranormal, Toronto Romance Writers, 2005

Winterlight (now known as On the Buckle)
Third place, Single Title Contemporary, Toronto Romance Writers, 2005

A Farmer at Last
Second place, Essay, Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, 2003

Woman
Third place, Poetry Unrhymed Short, Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, 2003

Unending Memory
Second place, Saturday Writers Poetry Contest

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