• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 October #1
  Horseshoer Rainy Dale is advised to be careful when she goes to work on the Buckeye, a big ranch whose owner, Cameron Chevigny, recently died in a tractor accident. His widow, Donna, gains Rainy's respect for trying to keep the family business going, but Rainy is taken aback when Donna's dog brings her a woman's glove with a hand still in it. The hand is found to belong to a missing woman who was one of Cameron's several paramours, raising the issues of how she died and whether his death was really an accident. And then there's Dragoon, the Buckeye's dangerous bull who tries to kill horses. An unlikely sleuth, Rainy is more comfortable with animals than with people, except for her fiancé, Guy, the chef who feeds her spinach starters when she longs for a burger. Still the New Girl after a year and a half in Cowdry, Oregon, Rainy wants a friend, and she finds one in the woman she asks to be her maid of honor. A winning follow-up to the series opener, The Clincher (2018), and a must for horse lovers. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.

Lisa Preston turned to writing after careers as a fire department paramedic and a city police officer. She is the author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novels Orchids and Stone and TheMeasure of the Moon. She is also the author of several nonfiction books and articles on the care and training of dogs and horses. Away from her desk, she spends hours on backcountry trails as a runner and rider, sometimes combining her two outdoor pursuits via the obscure sport of Ride and Tie. She lives with her husband, their Malinois, and two Akhal-Tekes on Washington State&;s vast Olympic Peninsula.