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The Makeover Horse (Ocala Horse Girls: Book Five) Signed Paperback US Only

The Makeover Horse (Ocala Horse Girls: Book Five) Signed Paperback US Only

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Mackenzie's life needs a makeover. Just like her retired racehorse! Head home to horse country for a new novel celebrating horsewomen, friendship, and love with the fifth book in the bestselling Ocala Horse Girls series! Mackenzie's heading to the Thoroughbred Makeover, but first, she has to get through her first summer as a professional groom...and evade the attention of a charming farrier!

The Makeover Horse is Book Five in the Ocala Horse Girls series. Read on their own or together, these romantic comedy novels focus on friendship, love, and the thrill of horsemanship in Florida's beautiful horse country. These books are set In the same lush and detailed world as Natalie Keller Reinert's previous bestselling series, including...

  • The Eventing Series
  • The Alex & Alexander Series
  • The Show Barn Blues Series
  • The Briar Hill Farm Series

These novels include overlapping characters, events, and locales which create a community of equestrians you'll love recognizing and catching up with in each book!

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Synopsis

Chapter One
THE MAKEOVER HORSE

I would have liked a moment to sit and stare out over the steering wheel. Take in the surroundings. Understand that I’ve really done it, really upended my entire life and embarked on a crazy new career that makes absolutely no sense, on paper or otherwise. This early-summer afternoon in Florida looks custom-made for a fresh start, at least. Blue skies, fluffy cumulous clouds, and a ninety-percent chance of a total mental breakdown.

But my new employers are waiting for me, and they look so expectant, so pleased to see me, that I can’t bear to disappoint them by sitting here and bursting into tears—of relief, of horror, of shock, of joy, all commingled into one sob-fest—so I plaster a smile on my face, pop open my truck door, and let the outdoors into the cab for the first time since I filled up the gas tank at the Okahumpka service plaza on the turnpike.

Sixty miles from the closest ocean, and three hundred miles from West Palm Beach, but there’s no doubt that we’re still in Florida. It’s humid as hell.

“Mackenzie!” Basil Han, jumper trainer and friend from my bad old days in Wellington, clasps his hands endearingly. He’s of Chinese descent and when the wind blows from behind him, a curtain of alluringly smooth, dark hair falls over his eyes; he smooths it back with one hand, a gesture I remember. “You’re here!”

“I am,” I say.

Basil’s girlfriend, pretty and round-faced, gives me the most welcoming smile I’ve ever seen in my life. “It’s so great to meet you at last!” she exclaims. “I mean, I feel like I know you already.”

“I feel like I know you, too,” I say, unable to resist her gorgeous smile. I’ve spent hours on the phone with Basil and Kayla, working out the logistics of this job offer, where I’ll stay and when I’ll start and what I can bring with me. It’s complicated, running away from your past. I had to make sure everything was in apple-pie order before I started this journey in earnest. I slide down from the truck cab and my knees nearly buckle when my paddock boots hit the ground.

“Woo, I’m exhausted,” I say, laughing sheepishly. “I hope you didn’t want me to start work this afternoon, because that was a long freaking drive.”

“Oh, no,” Kayla says, looking alarmed at the idea. “Settle in today and tonight.”

“You can start running our lives tomorrow,” Basil offers.

“That’s the goal, right?” I put my hands to the small of my back and stretch. “Hope I don’t let you down.”

“You’ll be amazing at it,” Kayla says. “You know how to take care of horses already, and everything you haven’t done yet, we’ll teach you! We’re not high-maintenance, I promise.”

Basil just smiles.

Look Inside: Chapter One

Mackenzie's life needs a complete makeover. Just like her retired racehorse.

Halfway between a quarter-life crisis and a midlife one -- that's where you'll find Mackenzie O'Neill. With the glitter of West Palm Beach and the debris of a failed marriage in her truck's rear-view mirror, she's heading to North Florida to start over as a groom for show-jumper Basil Han and his girlfriend, Kayla Moore (The Sweetheart Horse).

With her, she brings a retired racehorse she loves with all her heart, and her hope of taking him to the Thoroughbred Makeover competition in Kentucky. Oh, and a lot of emotional baggage about controlling men. She's looking forward to healing and personal growth on a quiet farm.

She didn't know about the farrier renting stalls and an apartment in the same barn where she'll be living and working.

As Mackenzie works on repairing her life and retraining her off-track Thoroughbred, she finds it harder and harder to resist this quiet giant of a man, who rehabs racehorses with a gentle hand. But she knows better than to let a charming man past her defenses. Even one who lives just across the barn aisle.

Even one who might be her only hope to get her beloved ex-racehorse to the Thoroughbred Makeover.

Book Five in the heartwarming Ocala Horse Girls series brings back old friends and introduces new ones in a relatable, emotional, and thoroughly horsey adventure! Combining the best of romantic comedy and women's fiction, the Ocala Horse Girls are full of fun, heart, and friendship.

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