Emily is back from her Irish vacation and she isn’t sure what she is walking into. Will Jordan be there? Will he submit to a paternity test so that they can finally figure out what they have between them? And if it is possible for them to be together, is that something that Emily even wants? She has left Patrick behind in Ireland with a piece of her heart and even though she knows it is impractical for them to be together, she still thinks maybe one day she might want to be with him.
Something she wants even more is Victor, the Irish horse she fell in love with in Ireland. There is a chance he could be coming to America and it is the one thing that Emily holds onto as her personal problems swirl around her.
Plus, there are all her horses who need to get back into serious work, the fall show schedule is starting and if Emily wants to compete with the best, she is going to have to up her game. So she decides to escape her problems by travelling to a show far away from home only trouble, it seems, follows Emily and her band of horses and friends, wherever she goes.
Claire Svendsen was born and raised in England, which means she talks with a vaguely cool accent and drinks a lot of hot tea. Obsessed with horses almost before she could walk, Claire spent her summers dragging the old family typewriter into the garden where she would write books about a rich family giving her a horse. Though she would like you to think they were the masterpieces of a young prodigy, the truth is they never went much further than the first chapter and were awful.
Claire likes to think she can write a lot better now. She also finds writing this biography about herself in the third person both weird and alluring all at the same time. Claire now lives in Florida because she doesn't like cold weather and when she's not busy writing, you can find her hanging at the barn with her thoroughbred Merlin.
I think Emily needs to get over her anger. She is great at reasoning with others about their anger but she is unable to handle her own properly. Running away is never going to "fix" the problem. Maybe she will get over it in the next book and handle it like an adult, the adult she has been thrown in to being.
I love, love, love this series. I read the next ones as soon as they come out. It's just such an accurate description of the horse world and one of the best great storylines I have read.
But Emily is such a self centered, spoiled brat that I want to slap her silly. Really. Why do people put up with a smart mouth 16 year old? And winning big Sunday classes, along with just about every other class she goes in? What ever happened to the junior jumper division? Let's get back to reality. Is she meant to be a role model for her younger readers? I still gave it 3* because I have read every book, so there must be something that keeps bringing me back. But I sure hope someone has a come to Jesus meeting with Emily soon.