Riding Out The Wager by Hilary Walker
Love how this starts out with healing powers horses have. I've yet to ride one but they do fascinate me and the things they can do.
First time reading this author and enjoy the exploration into her works-want to read more already!
Starts out where a priest is spending dinner at one of his relatives and parishions house for dinner and meets the brother, Justin who is back from Iraq and very hostile.
Priest, Father Michael makes a wager he can get him to believe in God by Easter...
We learn of others confessions and how they are handled.
Love hearing of the step by step instructions on how to set up the saddle and everything associated with it, so very detailed and precise.
All different problems that are our everyday lives and solutions for troubles, priceless!
Although there are a lot of characters it's easy to keep them all straight. Amazing story! Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.
What I liked the most is that there are different age groups, each facing different troubles in their lives and there is an answer to them all. Pray.
Received this review copy from the author and this is my honest opinion.

I was looking for new Horse books + boarding school, and found this one. It looked really nice, and it sounded like the book for me. So I ordered the first book and it was just delivered yesterday.

Three short stories that give backdrops to the current, main story. 

I loved how Justin's voice showed me more of who Dan used to be when they first met.

I had a really hard time with Dan's story, and cried like a baby, even though the story is only 25 pages long.

I really enjoyed seeing the first moments of love between Jeff and Evan.

All in all these stories flesh out the characters in a fantastic way, an extra bonus being that they were downloadable in pdf for free from the All Romance eBooks. Good thinking, author. Give me more words for free, and now I'm off to read the second "real" story in the series.