Walking quickly to the lesson board and scanning it for her name, Lucy found she'd been assigned to a horse she'd never ridden before—a dark chestnut gelding named Ace. And even though it seemed a bit counter-intuitive...Lucy's slight unease at knowing she would have to work extra quickly was offset by a little spark of excitement she felt. Getting to know a horse she'd never ridden before was always a new and exciting adventure for the redhead, because while it was true that Lucy worked to take care of the horses at the barn so frequently, the responsibilities of feeding, watering, turning in and turning out, and, of course, stall cleaning, differed greatly from actually working with one of those individual horses.
And besides—no matter the circumstances Lucy had found herself in prior a
