Many thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for gifting me a digital ARC of the new novel by Eliza Jane Brazier - 5 stars!
The newly wealthy Parker family move from Texas to Southern California for a fresh start. Mom Heather is determined that her girls have all the advantages she didn't, including horses. They sign up at a nearby riding complex and Heather soon becomes a "barn mom." Maple, the youngest daughter, is mostly scared of horses and knows she's not as good as the other girls. Piper, the more natural on a horse, is mad at her mom for the move and wants no part of the horse scene before she leaves for college. But the whole family soon gets involved in buying a horse and being part of the riding community. But everyone is out for themselves, keeping secrets, and someone winds up dead.
Oh, what delicious fun this was! Drama between the girls, between the moms, the handsome horse trainer who all the women desire, then throw in a dead body! The reader knows from the start that the police are investigating a death, but doesn't know who died. Interview snippets are interwoven with the chapters from multiple characters POV. All of these characters are perfectly believable and relatable, even though it may be on a different wealth scale. I'm not a horse person but I raced through this book and loved it!
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