Gambling with the Enemy: an equestrian thriller
Just finished Gambling with the Enemy...I could not put it down!....just galloped through the story with Jess and Faith. I really felt the story unfolding in what astrologers call a "conspiracy of energy" as Jess had her mettle tested on every plane imaginable. Friendships faltering, business failing, beliefs shattered, and the total isolation Jess felt. --Blue Ribbon Books, Robbee Huseth...This is a contemporary, suspenseful post 9/11 American story. It's set in the world of horses and is told in third-person...Jessica Rayder and her partner Faith teach kids how to ride, grooming them for competition. Leland's writing gets better with each book [and] Gambling with the Enemy explores a subject that raises the neck hairs of every American...a credible, memorable, instructive, mysterious, suspenseful, all-around-electrifying read. --Midwest Book Review, Christina Francine WhitcherThis book had me holding my breath from start to finish! A very exciting plot, with a character that I loved to hate and yet pulled for her all the way through the book. A real page burner!! I couldn't put it down, read it in one sitting (which kept me up til 2am and had my husband take over the book the following night). I wasn't sure if he'd be able to get through the stereotype of the the "romance" and "horse novel" and female characters, but he enjoyed it as much as I did - and finished it in record time. We can't wait for Toni Leland's next novel!! --Amazon Reader--Amazon Reader...This is a contemporary, suspenseful post 9/11 American story. It's set in the world of horses and is told in third-person...Jessica Rayder and her partner Faith teach kids how to ride, grooming them for competition. Leland's writing gets better with each book [and] Gambling with the Enemy explores a subject that raises the neck hairs of every American...a credible, memorable, instructive, mysterious, suspenseful, all-around-electrifying read. --Midwest Book Review, Christina Francine WhitcherThis book had me holding my breath from start to finish! A very exciting plot, with a character that I loved to hate and yet pulled for her all the way through the book. A real page burner!! I couldn't put it down, read it in one sitting (which kept me up til 2am and had my husband take over the book the following night). I wasn't sure if he'd be able to get through the stereotype of the the "romance" and "horse novel" and female characters, but he enjoyed it as much as I did - and finished it in record time. We can't wait for Toni Leland's next novel!! --Amazon Reader