NyxRavencourt
Unwritten Strides
A Silverwood Equestrian Novel
By Nyx Ravencourt
At Silverwood Equestrian Academy, everyone knows Sadie Parker.
She's the school's golden girl-captain of the senior jumping team, top of her class, and the rider of Atlas, a stunning buckskin Dutch Warmblood stallion who seems to win hearts as easily as ribbons. With graduation approaching and championship season on the horizon, Sadie's future has never looked brighter.
Then Rowan Hart arrives.
Transferred in the last year of school with a reputation for keeping everyone at arm's length, Rowan wants only one thing: to focus on her horse and survive her final year unnoticed. But that's easier said than done when she's assigned a student mentor-and that mentor happens to be Sadie Parker.
The last thing Rowan needs is Silverwood's most popular student trying to befriend her.
The last thing Sadie expects is a girl who refuses every offer of help.
Yet as the weeks pass, the distance between them begins to blur.
Between sunrise training sessions, moonlit trail rides, county fairs, championship qualifiers, and the chaos of life at Silverwood, an unexpected friendship begins to grow. One built on shared dreams, quiet understanding, and two very different stallions.
Atlas, the confident veteran who seems to charm everyone he meets.
Storm, Rowan's brilliant but unpredictable young Selle Français whose talent is matched only by his stubbornness.
But when old wounds resurface and the pressure of competition threatens everything they've worked for, Sadie and Rowan must decide whether some risks are worth taking-even when there's no guarantee of where the path will lead.
Because some stories aren't written in ink.
They're written in hoofprints.
And sometimes the most important strides are the ones you never planned to take.