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 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 . 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. "Lizzi Tremayne is a born storyteller. The...characters...[are] three dimensional and you can feel Lena and Blake's emotions." -Lori Dykes "a wonderful series about the path to becoming a veterinarian, the love of horses and sweet romance. Lena and Blake will grab your heart." -Teri Donaldson Horses bring them together. Their future looks rosy-- it's the present they can't handle.A summertime stint at a small animal clinic takes veterinary student Lena away from her beloved horses, but at an endurance ride she finds horses--and her ideal man, veteran pilot Blake. She decides she can't do without him and his world--after finishing vet school, that is.Blake's past experiences don't help his attitude when Lena heads back to vet school and his temper doesn't improve with the distance and her workload. Blake's green eyed monsters strain the already-tense situation, but at least he has his horses and dogs.The final race tests their horse's endurance--and Lena's and Blake's, as well. The pair must come to terms with their fears and make the right choices to create the future they so desire.The ONCE UPON A VET SCHOOL SeriesDrama and humor abound as Lena pursues her childhood dream of becoming an equine vet--and beyond--in this unique series ofsix independent novella sequences with several books in each:~ Junior Years ~ High School Days ~ College Nights ~~ Vet School 24/7 ~ Practice Time ~ Long in the Tooth ~LizziTremayne.com/books Lizzi grew up riding wild in the Santa Cruz Mountain redwoods, became an equine veterinarian at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and practiced in the Gold and Pony Express Country of California before emigrating to New Zealand. She has two wonderful boys, a grandbaby, and an awesome partner in that sea of green. When she's not writing, she's swinging a rapier or shooting a bow in medieval garb, riding or driving a carriage, playing in the garden on her hobby farm, singing, cooking, or looking into a horse's mouth in her equine veterinary dental practice. She is multiply published and awarded in special interest magazines and veterinary periodicals. With this debut novel, she was Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings, Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award for the unpublished full manuscript, Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel and third in Koru Long Novel, and Finalist 2015 Best Indie Book Award.