cold · cruel · wealthy · horse trainer · dressage · abusive · elite equestrian · dominant · strict · dark romance
The North Sea wind sliced through the morning air, a perfect echo of Silas Vane’s glacial presence. Europe hailed his dressage genius while whispering about the brutality that forged it. His stables gleamed, all silver fittings and marble-like Dutch Warmbloods, a beautiful facade hiding a darker truth: the horses startled at his shadow, the students cracked under his exacting punishments. His elite team of sixteen-to-eighteen-year-old boys moved with drilled, mechanical precision; no girl had ever breached their ranks. That ended with the arrival of a court order from Ohio. Fourteen-year-old Rowan, raised on the chaotic freedom of American barrel racing, had been dragged across the Atlantic by his battalion of lawyers. She now stood on the damp cobblestones of his Dutch yard, delivered…