Books with author Julie Whitley

When Reid Widmark's jockey mother takes a fall, their barn and the horses they train become Reid's responsibility. He's fine with it: he was practically born on a horse, and he's always been his mother's right-hand man. He'll hold the fort until she returns, and then he'll be back on track toward his own future as a jockey. Or so he thinks. Bit by bit, his life starts changing. People he thought were friends start taking over. His leg up on Carmina, the best horse in his mother's barn and his chance at the big stakes, is taken away. And when his mother comes back, she drops a bombshell: she's getting out of the jockey business and wants Reid to get out too. Reid's steaming mad and ready to take off when his new friend Ella steps in. She helps him see reason ―then spots a big chance that may give Reid everything he's dreamed of. Can he prove to everyone―his mother, their friends and this unknown horse and her owners―that Reid Widmark's got what it takes to get in first under the wire?

Faye Marsh is out show jumping for Lawrence Devries, and twelve-year-old Kirsty's still working for Lucy at the ranch. She doesn't mind, really―she and her pony Lancelot would be nowhere without Lucy. So when Kirsty's asked to help with a cattle roundup, she agrees, even though she's nervous. This kind of riding is completely new to her. Can Lancelot handle it? Can Kirsty? It's just bad luck that her roundup partner is fourteen-year-old Jesse, who treats her like an idiot. Jesse has had every advantage Kirsty can imagine, including a family ranch with horseback riding every summer. Why does he have such an attitude problem? Doesn't he realize that Lancelot and Kirsty are new at this? Soon she's steaming mad―and Jesse has disappeared. When she finds him, it's too late: a forest fire is bearing down on them. Their lives in peril, Kirsty and Jesse have to cooperate―and trust the horse sense of the amazing Lancelot―to ride through the fire and out to safety.

Faye finds an old diary at a tack sale and becomes absorbed in the life of Mary Inglis and her mount, Colleen, as they train and ride as show jumpers. It’s a wonderful distraction from Faye’s state of mind. She’s been taking some time off from jumping to recover from a fall. While her shoulder is getting better, her memories aren’t. Every time she recalls the fall, she panics. In this fourth Hillcroft Farm novel, horsewoman and talented storyteller Julie White skillfully intertwines a tale from the early days of women in international competition with Faye’s journey back to the show ring after a nasty accident.