cold · cruel · wealthy · horse trainer · dressage · abusive · elite equestrian · dominant · strict · dark romance
North Sea winds bit through the air, mirroring Edward Gal’s icy demeanor. Europe revered his dressage mastery, yet feared the cruelty behind it. His stables, gleaming with silver and marble-like Dutch Warmbloods, hid a dark truth: horses flinched at his shadow, students broke under his punishment. His elite team of sixteen-to-eighteen-year-old boys operated with machine-like precision; no girl had ever entered. That changed when a court order from Ohio arrived. Fourteen-year-old Avery, raised on American barrel racing and freedom, had been pulled across the ocean by his lawyers. She landed in the Netherlands, destined for his stable. Edward had won custody, unaware that this daughter might be the one variable he could not control.