Horses bring them together and their future looks rosy— It's the present they can't handle. When equine veterinary student Lena and veteran pilot Blake fall in love, vet school and the past intrude. Add in a long-distance relationship, and things get just plain hard. A grueling endurance race tests their horse-- --and their relationship. Can they make it? BOOK THREE IN THE ONCE UPON A VET SCHOOL: VET SCHOOL 24/7 SERIES Books by Lizzi Tremayne: Unpretentious, eminently readable Contemporary and Historical Fiction... by a horse vet! AWARDS FOR THE AUTHOR With Lizzi's first novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was: Winner 2016 True West Best Western Romance, Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings; Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award; Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel plus third in Koru Long Novel section; and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award. The Once Upon a Vet School Overall Series Drama and humor abound as Lena pursues her childhood dream of becoming an equine vet—and beyond—in this unique series of six independent sequences: ~Junior Years~ ~High School Days~ ~College Nights ~Vet School 24/7~ ~Practice Time~ Currently Available: The Stories of the Once Upon a Vet School Series ~Vet School 24/7~ Fifty Miles at a Breath (III) Horses bring them together and their future looks rosy—it's the present they can't handle. Lena Takes a Foal (IV) She needs help... he needs to stay away... ~Practice Time~ Greener Pastures Calling (II) A new country, a great job, and a good Kiwi bloke. Life couldn't be better. Until it gets worse

Horses bring them together and their future looks rosy-it's the present they can't handle.When equine veterinary student Lena and veteran pilot Blake fall in love, vet school and his past experiences intrude. Add in a long-distance relationship, and things get just plain hard.A grueling endurance race forces them to draw on their strengths and face their fears-together. BOOK SIX IN THE ONCE UPON A VET SCHOOL SERIESDid you ever want to be a veterinarian?These contemporary veterinary fictions can easily be read as standalones, but they are part of a series. Share Lena's escapades as she follows her dream of becoming an equine veterinarian from the Santa Cruz Mountains of her childhood through the jungles of university to equine practice in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and finally onto her career as a rural equine and sometimes zoo-dentistry vet in New Zealand. This is Book 7 in the series, following the soon-to-be-released Book 6: Fifty Miles at a Breath. The series is being written from the middle out-if George Lucas can do it, why not?AUDIENCE AND FEATURES: Stories for anyone who's ever dreamed of becoming a veterinarian or loves horses-stories of veterinary school life and the horses that fill Lena's dreams and her daytimes, too. They feature a capable heroine, modern veterinary treatments, plenty of laughs, some tears, and a lot of growing up. They're clean and wholesome, so everyone can read them! AUTHOR BIO: Lizzi grew up riding wild in the Santa Cruz Mountain redwoods, became an equine veterinarian at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, practiced in the California Pony Express and Gold Country before emigrating to New Zealand. When not writing, she's swinging a rapier or shooting a bow in medieval garb, riding, driving a carriage or playing on her farm, singing, or working as an equine veterinarian. She's multiply published and awarded in special interest magazines and veterinary periodicals.AWARDS FOR THE AUTHORWith Lizzi's first novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was: Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings; Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award; Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel plus third in Koru Long Novel section; and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award.

I hope you enjoy this book of tempting first-chapter tidbits from my first three books in The Long Trails series plus three of the books from the Once Upon a Vet School series and come back for more! Historical Fiction AND Contemporary Women's and NA Fiction! FOR FREE! The book includes the first chapters from A Long Trail Rolling, The Hills of Gold Unchanging, A Sea of Green Unfolding, the upcoming Tatiana and Somewhere Called Home, as well as the initial chapter of Fifty Miles at a Breath, Lena Takes a Foal, and Greener Pastures Calling from the Once Upon a Vet School series! The historical fiction sagas follow Aleksandra and Xavier from the wilderness of 1860 Utah to Colonial New Zealand. The Long Trails series: Can an orphan, with only her Mustang and a Cossack sword, survive alone on the frontier? From the deserts of Utah, through the gold mines of California, to the turbulent wilderness of New Zealand, Aleksandra rides, loves, and fights—with only her Cossack skills to keep her alive. ** From multiple award winning author Lizzi Tremayne ** Book One: A Long Trail Rolling UTAH TERRITORY, 1860. Hunted for her secrets. Hiding in plain sight. Can one woman blaze her own trail into untamed territory? Winner True West 2016 Best Western Romance, Winner Romance Writers of New Zealand: 2014 Pacific Hearts Award and 2015 Koru Award Book Two: The Hills of Gold Unchanging UTAH TERRITORY, 1860. As the Civil War rages, secessionists menace California. The Confederates want the state and they'll stop at nothing to take it. Book Three: A Sea of Green Unfolding SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND NEW ZEALAND, 1863. They set sail for the peace and calm of New Zealand, but they hadn’t counted on murderers, mutineers, and a land war in paradise. The Somewhere Series Somewhere Called Home SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, 1813. Highlands to Waterloo—can love prevail over fate? To be released soon. The Tatiana Series (with links to The Long Trails series) Book One: Tatiana I MOSKVA, RUSSIA 1842. Stableman’s daughter Tatiana rises to glamorous heights by her equestrienne abilities—but the tsar’s glittering attention is not always gold. The Once Upon a Vet School Series Drama and humor abound as Lena pursues her childhood dream of becoming an equine vet—and beyond—in this unique series of six independent novella sequences. Currently Available Reads: From ~Vet School 24/7~ Sequence: Fifty Miles at a Breath Horses bring them together and their future looks rosy—it’s the present they can’t handle. Lena Takes a Foal She needs help... he needs to stay away... From ~Practice Time~ Sequence: Greener Pastures Calling A new country, a great job, and a good Kiwi bloke. Life couldn't be better. Until it gets worse. Understanding Modern Vet Med for Owners Series The new series of veterinary books for horse owners to let you use what vets know to keep your horses healthier and happier. First volume due out soon! Have a read and enjoy! It's FREE!

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