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Outside Rein (Briar Hill Farm: Book Three)

Outside Rein (Briar Hill Farm: Book Three)

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Amanda Wakefield has always been a Hunter Princess in Jules's eyes. But there's more to Amanda than sitting pretty in the show-ring. And when she's selected for a reality show about equestrians, Amanda knows she can finally show the world what she's really made of. It's a shame no one ever told Amanda not to believe everything she sees on TV.

Return to Briar Hill Farm for another horse-filled adventure in Florida! Briar Hill Farm is a new series featuring characters and settings from beloved novels by Natalie Keller Reinert in the Ocala Equestrians collection. These include The Eventing Series, Alex & Alexander Series, the Show Barn Blues Series, and more. You can read these books in companion with this series or enjoy each series individually.

For more information on how these series work together, visit Ocala Equestrians Collection at nataliekreinert.com

This is an exclusive purchase from this site through February 20, 2024!

You'll also be able to access your ebook at my.bookfunnel.com

Synopsis

Amanda was nicknamed "The Hunter Princess" years ago, but she's so much more than a pretty blonde on horseback. Desperate to prove herself and find something more in life, she makes a rash decision, joining an equestrian riding challenge bound for TVs across America.

While she's finding out that you can't believe everything you see on TV, her decision ripples across the network of horsewomen she's connected with over the years. At Seabreeze Equestrian Center, Grace begrudgingly welcomes the cameras and production crew for the new show, while taking some time out from teaching to consider her next chapter. At Cotswold Farm, Alex is watching the dismal stats of Thoroughbred horse racing and wondering if she can continue to call this sport her own. And at Briar Hill Farm, Jules is...well, she's Jules, pure and simple. But she might have to loosen up her competitive nature before this adventure is over!

Join the Briar Hill Farm family for one more ride in this final volume of a multi-voice trilogy exploring the triumphs and challenges of creating a life with horses.

Look Inside: Chapter One

Excerpt from Chapter One: Amanda

The time had come to share my big news with my family.

And something told me it wasn’t going to go over well.

Call me crazy, but I know my parents pretty well…a real accomplishment, considering they are never home and I was basically raised by nannies, riding coaches, and tutors. But I still wanted their approval.

Isn’t that sad? I wanted their approval, so I went and agreed to do something they’d absolutely hate.
I’ve always been the type that self-sabotaged. But now or never, I thought. I took a deep breath and gathered all the courage I had. Everything I’d built over my thirty-odd years as a horsewoman, a trainer, and the prettiest hunter princess you ever did see trotting around a riding ring.

“Mother,” I said to my laptop, “I have something to tell you and Dad.”

My mother looked over her shoulder. In the background, I could see the clean white walls of my parents’ Paris apartment. My mother didn’t like too much fuss in her decor. She said a lot of artwork hanging around a room gave her a migraine.

“Your father is downstairs, darling,” she said, looking back at me. “He had to talk to the concierge about something or other. The mail delivery here has been so spotty.”

I nearly groaned with frustration. He was always in the apartment. My father never went anywhere in Paris besides dinner, late in the evening, and always with my mother. He didn’t actually like the city. Something about cigarette smoke and crazy people on motorbikes. They liked the food, and visiting my mother’s cousins, and looking beautiful at cocktail hours with their friends in shiny old world hotel bars, and otherwise they simply looked at the city from their tall, narrow windows and complained a lot until it was time to go somewhere else.
Anywhere but home, with me.

I considered waiting until later to share, but I had horses to ride and my news wouldn’t keep secret forever; there was a press release going out today with my name in it and someone would see it and tell my mother and then—

“I’m doing a reality show,” I blurted. “The Riding Masters Challenge. It’s going to stream on Net-”

“A reality show!”

The force of her interruption was like a train colliding with a tiny Paris car. I’ll give you a moment to guess which one was me.

(I was the tiny car.)

My mother’s expression was hard as she glared at me through the computer. It was an expression I knew too well. The one which said, I’m disappointed in you, Amanda.

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Riding Masters Challenge

As I have come to expect, this is another excellent equestrian book from Ms.Reinert. I do feel that, as much as I enjoyed it, and I truly did LOVE it, this is not the book I would reccomend to a reader new to her work. There are so many characters and places, so many moving parts, that it could feel completely overwhelming. Even with my familiarity with the characters coming with full backgrounds from several different series, I needed to take detailed notes and repeatedly step away after several chapters to let myself fully absorb the very well woven plot. It has been fascinating seeing how very intertwined the lives of so many women became in the Briar Hill Farm stories. They may not be tied by blood, but they certainly have become a family bound together by the love of horses.

I received an ARC copy of this story from the author via BookFunnel and voluntarily chose to share my review.

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Dale Leatherman
Great Characters and Plot

As in most books by Reinert, there are a lot of moving parts—settings AND characters. For those of us who have read books in the Alex & Alexander (racing), Eventing and Show Barn Blues series, the Briar Hill Farm books are easy to follow because we’ve come to know the characters from their starring roles in previous series. Each chapter in the three Briar Hill Farm books--Foaling Season, Friends With Horses and Outside Rein--is from the point of view of a different character (clearly labeled). It’s great fun seeing them interacting on each other’s turf. Just imagine a fantasy reunion that brings together friends from different periods of your life. In Outside Rein several major characters are at crisis points in their lives, which makes for great plot twists.

That said, I don’t advise new readers to start out reading Reinert’s Briar Hill Farm series, not when you have the option to binge read some or all of the 20+ books that form this incredible community of characters, equine and human.Read those books and then delight in seeing where the characters are now in the Briar Hill Farm series, and how they’ve grown. It’s satisfying, and worth the lost sleep.

Jules, star of the Eventing series, is a complex character who was so driven in early books she was hard to like, especially compared to Pete, the sweetheart of a guy who was initially her rival. Okay, I’m not going to spoil that saga for new readers. Nor am I going to spoil the love story of Alex and Alexander, which plays out against a background of U.S. racing. Or Show Barn Blues, which finds Grace, a consummate hunter-jumper professional, trying to save her farm from encroaching Orlando development.

All of Reinert’s books are entertaining and unfailingly accurate in the disciplines in which they take place. They are also “clean,” with no bad language or graphic sex, so they’re suitable for younger readers. Hey, there’s plenty of drama, enough to keep adult readers up past their bedtime. After a dose of national news on TV, I find that a little time with a Reinert book helps me sleep and dream of horses, horse people and solvable problems.
Reinert doesn’t leave any of her characters on the fringes for long. We all met Amanda, the Hunter Princess, early on in the Eventing series, when she was more or less stalking Pete, who was only interested in Jules. We see another side of this rich, talented and lonely hunter rider in Outside Rein. She has it all – a farm, nice horses, great skills – but she is miserable. She is definitely in a “Is this all there is?” place. Oddly enough, she decides to participate in a TV riding reality show for a change of pace! Go figure. Fortunately, the competition is being held at Grace’s Seabreeze Equestrian Center in Orlando, where great school horses are enlisted to participate in several disciplines to test the skills of their riders. Interesting. Unfortunately, Grace is in a bit of a life crisis of her own, trying to see what her future holds.

Meanwhile, Alex, who has a wonderful life working with Thoroughbreds at Cotswald Farm, which she shares with husband Alexander, is disturbed by the breakdowns and negative publicity in racing and is questioning her role in it going forward. It’s a dilemma cut from the headlines, and it’s interesting how Alex approaches it with help from some new friends.
Jules and Pete are helping the losers in the riding challenge lick their wounds and have some fun at Briar Hill, which takes some unexpected turns.

So, there’s a lot going on in the third and last (?) book in the Briar Hill Farm series. Natalie, say it isn’t so! This book is a winner—and it sets characters off on new tracks we’d like to follow.

This review only mentions three of Reinert’s series. There are three more, along with award-winning stand-alone books. Which makes readers in search of accurate and well written horse sport books very lucky indeed.

J
J.W.
The Gang is Back!

The themes in Outside Rein can be summarized in the words change and possible transition, as many of our beloved characters take stock of what they are doing in their careers and whether they are happy to continue on their current career paths (except the driven Pete and Jules who are still driven to compete in eventing;)

Grace's boyfriend is nearing retirement age and may want to leave Florida, Alex has continued to lose her enthusiasm for their racing stables and Amanda (the former “Hunter Princess”) has been restless on her lonely Off the Track Thoroughbred training farm.

Amanda takes center stage as a contestant on the Riding Masters Challenge reality show. The show is being filmed on Amanda’s farm, where she has constructed guest cabins in a further attempt to diversify her business to make it financially viable, as land developers continue surround her and pressure her to give up her grandfather’s land to build higher density housing.

I won’t give any more spoilers, as it’s important to keep some surprises for fellow readers, but suffice to say I enjoyed the book and read it eagerly to see where some of my favourite book characters ended up at book’s finish.

S
SK
What a satisfying ending to this wonderful series!

Amanda "the hunter princess" finally gets her turn to shine when, desperate to prove herself and find something more in life, she makes a rash decision, and joins an equestrian riding challenge on a reality TV show! Will it give her the answers she's looking for? And where is this show going to be filmed, you ask? At Seabreeze Equestrian Center, where Grace begrudgingly welcomes the cameras and production crew, leading her to take some time out from teaching to consider her next chapter. Meanwhile, at Cotswold Farm, Alex is watching the dismal stats of Thoroughbred horse racing and wondering if she can continue to call this sport her own. And at Briar Hill Farm, Jules learns that each week the competitor booted off the reality TV show is going to come to her farm to stay while filming continues! What the heck! I'm sad to see this wonderful series end, but if it had to come to a conclusion, I must say I've been left well satisfied.

J
Jan Sheets
The best yet

A masterful job of taking ALL of my favorite storylines and characters and weaving them together. It was a bit like watching them all become the best that they could be. Truly my favorite book of the series.

Customer Reviews

Based on 17 reviews
100%
(17)
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0%
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W. C.
Riding Masters Challenge

As I have come to expect, this is another excellent equestrian book from Ms.Reinert. I do feel that, as much as I enjoyed it, and I truly did LOVE it, this is not the book I would reccomend to a reader new to her work. There are so many characters and places, so many moving parts, that it could feel completely overwhelming. Even with my familiarity with the characters coming with full backgrounds from several different series, I needed to take detailed notes and repeatedly step away after several chapters to let myself fully absorb the very well woven plot. It has been fascinating seeing how very intertwined the lives of so many women became in the Briar Hill Farm stories. They may not be tied by blood, but they certainly have become a family bound together by the love of horses.

I received an ARC copy of this story from the author via BookFunnel and voluntarily chose to share my review.

D
Dale Leatherman
Great Characters and Plot

As in most books by Reinert, there are a lot of moving parts—settings AND characters. For those of us who have read books in the Alex & Alexander (racing), Eventing and Show Barn Blues series, the Briar Hill Farm books are easy to follow because we’ve come to know the characters from their starring roles in previous series. Each chapter in the three Briar Hill Farm books--Foaling Season, Friends With Horses and Outside Rein--is from the point of view of a different character (clearly labeled). It’s great fun seeing them interacting on each other’s turf. Just imagine a fantasy reunion that brings together friends from different periods of your life. In Outside Rein several major characters are at crisis points in their lives, which makes for great plot twists.

That said, I don’t advise new readers to start out reading Reinert’s Briar Hill Farm series, not when you have the option to binge read some or all of the 20+ books that form this incredible community of characters, equine and human.Read those books and then delight in seeing where the characters are now in the Briar Hill Farm series, and how they’ve grown. It’s satisfying, and worth the lost sleep.

Jules, star of the Eventing series, is a complex character who was so driven in early books she was hard to like, especially compared to Pete, the sweetheart of a guy who was initially her rival. Okay, I’m not going to spoil that saga for new readers. Nor am I going to spoil the love story of Alex and Alexander, which plays out against a background of U.S. racing. Or Show Barn Blues, which finds Grace, a consummate hunter-jumper professional, trying to save her farm from encroaching Orlando development.

All of Reinert’s books are entertaining and unfailingly accurate in the disciplines in which they take place. They are also “clean,” with no bad language or graphic sex, so they’re suitable for younger readers. Hey, there’s plenty of drama, enough to keep adult readers up past their bedtime. After a dose of national news on TV, I find that a little time with a Reinert book helps me sleep and dream of horses, horse people and solvable problems.
Reinert doesn’t leave any of her characters on the fringes for long. We all met Amanda, the Hunter Princess, early on in the Eventing series, when she was more or less stalking Pete, who was only interested in Jules. We see another side of this rich, talented and lonely hunter rider in Outside Rein. She has it all – a farm, nice horses, great skills – but she is miserable. She is definitely in a “Is this all there is?” place. Oddly enough, she decides to participate in a TV riding reality show for a change of pace! Go figure. Fortunately, the competition is being held at Grace’s Seabreeze Equestrian Center in Orlando, where great school horses are enlisted to participate in several disciplines to test the skills of their riders. Interesting. Unfortunately, Grace is in a bit of a life crisis of her own, trying to see what her future holds.

Meanwhile, Alex, who has a wonderful life working with Thoroughbreds at Cotswald Farm, which she shares with husband Alexander, is disturbed by the breakdowns and negative publicity in racing and is questioning her role in it going forward. It’s a dilemma cut from the headlines, and it’s interesting how Alex approaches it with help from some new friends.
Jules and Pete are helping the losers in the riding challenge lick their wounds and have some fun at Briar Hill, which takes some unexpected turns.

So, there’s a lot going on in the third and last (?) book in the Briar Hill Farm series. Natalie, say it isn’t so! This book is a winner—and it sets characters off on new tracks we’d like to follow.

This review only mentions three of Reinert’s series. There are three more, along with award-winning stand-alone books. Which makes readers in search of accurate and well written horse sport books very lucky indeed.

J
J.W.
The Gang is Back!

The themes in Outside Rein can be summarized in the words change and possible transition, as many of our beloved characters take stock of what they are doing in their careers and whether they are happy to continue on their current career paths (except the driven Pete and Jules who are still driven to compete in eventing;)

Grace's boyfriend is nearing retirement age and may want to leave Florida, Alex has continued to lose her enthusiasm for their racing stables and Amanda (the former “Hunter Princess”) has been restless on her lonely Off the Track Thoroughbred training farm.

Amanda takes center stage as a contestant on the Riding Masters Challenge reality show. The show is being filmed on Amanda’s farm, where she has constructed guest cabins in a further attempt to diversify her business to make it financially viable, as land developers continue surround her and pressure her to give up her grandfather’s land to build higher density housing.

I won’t give any more spoilers, as it’s important to keep some surprises for fellow readers, but suffice to say I enjoyed the book and read it eagerly to see where some of my favourite book characters ended up at book’s finish.

S
SK
What a satisfying ending to this wonderful series!

Amanda "the hunter princess" finally gets her turn to shine when, desperate to prove herself and find something more in life, she makes a rash decision, and joins an equestrian riding challenge on a reality TV show! Will it give her the answers she's looking for? And where is this show going to be filmed, you ask? At Seabreeze Equestrian Center, where Grace begrudgingly welcomes the cameras and production crew, leading her to take some time out from teaching to consider her next chapter. Meanwhile, at Cotswold Farm, Alex is watching the dismal stats of Thoroughbred horse racing and wondering if she can continue to call this sport her own. And at Briar Hill Farm, Jules learns that each week the competitor booted off the reality TV show is going to come to her farm to stay while filming continues! What the heck! I'm sad to see this wonderful series end, but if it had to come to a conclusion, I must say I've been left well satisfied.

J
Jan Sheets
The best yet

A masterful job of taking ALL of my favorite storylines and characters and weaving them together. It was a bit like watching them all become the best that they could be. Truly my favorite book of the series.

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