̃̃Winner: 2019 American Horse Publications Equine Media Award for Fiction and a Winnie from The Equus Film & Arts Festival, as well as the 2020 Feathered Quill Bronze for Animal-Adult and finalist in Mystery/Thriller̃̃Gallop to the finish with Dream Horse Mystery #3Vi's kept a job for nearly one year and is sure she's going ride off into the sunset with her trust fund, but ghost horse Wastrel has plans that put everything she's worked for in Parker knows old wounds can fester. What she doesn't know is how deeply they can cut or to what lengths people will go to recover. When she returns to her roots to solve her mentor's murder, nothing and no one is what they seem and no amount of whipped cream makes sense of it.She should be able to trust her friends, her family, herself. She should know where she belongs, where home is. But with Malcolm and everyone she loves acting strangely, and everyone she hates even stranger, trust becomes elusive. Wastrel becomes her only confidant.Has she been on the wrong lead all along? If Vi doesn't figure out Wastrel's clues in time, what she doesn't know could kill her.Vi's in for a bumpy ride in this riveting and poignant wrap-up to the Dream Horse Mysteries.˃˃ Check out the entire Dream Horse Mystery Series:Cold Backed, the short Dream Horse Mystery prologueOn the Buckle, Dream Horse Mystery #1Run Out, Dream Horse Mystery #2Wrong Lead, Dream Horse Mystery #3or get the entire set in the Dream Horse Mysteries Omnibus 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 suchRaver -- Book One of the HorsecallerFirst place, Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel, Oklahoma Writers Federation, 2003First place, Paranormal, Toronto Romance Writers, 2005Winterlight (now known as On the Buckle)Third place, Single Title Contemporary, Toronto Romance Writers, 2005A Farmer at LastSecond place, Essay, Oklahoma Writers' Federation, 2003WomanThird place, Poetry Unrhymed Short, Oklahoma Writers' Federation, 2003Unending MemorySecond place, Saturday Writers Poetry Contest Jump in the saddle for a fun but bumpy ride!Few will hire competitive rider, Viola Parker, since the famous jumper, Wastrel, crashed to his death with her aboard. Not only that, her attitude just landed her out of work…again. She can barely afford her whipped-cream-in-a-can addiction.Now, before she's thirty, she must keep a job for one year and receive a glowing letter of recommendation to get a surprise trust fund set up by her absentee parents. A trust fund that could represent freedom and independence-or might be worth nothing.Vi accepts a position and moves from Long Island to Missouri thinking that keeping her mouth shut and her head down for one year will be easy.But when Wastrel begins haunting her dreams and dead bodies start piling up, the question isn't whether she can earn a reference from her hunky boss, Malcolm, but whether she'll live long enough to get it

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