Western Novel from Patrick Norris

The wait is over. The Reining begins here. Like the experience on a crazy roller coaster.

Thrilling and Exciting. A definite page-flipper.

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Western Novel, Patrick Norris, pattern five, writer

Pattern Five - One in a Million

After losing his son Sam in a tragic horse accident, the promising young Wyoming reining trainer Tyler Roberts, loses all interest in the sport he once loved. Living a solitary life in a small cabin in Wyoming he receives a letter from his aunt Jodie requesting his help on her ranch in Belgium. In Belgium he meets the beautiful young Slovakian, Lenka Duffek and the equally beautiful Alanna van Rijn, the wife of a powerful and sinister business man from Antwerpen. He also meets Ben Smith, a man with his own agenda,

Then there was Jan de Backer, the ranch vet who had a love for powder substances, and the ranch handyman Jimmy “Uppercut” Murphy, an ex boxer and well traveled Irish man from Galway. Last but not least he also comes across a chestnut quarter horse stallion called “Jake the Snake alias The Duke.” Very quickly he comes to realize that the stallion is one in a million.

But all was not what it seemed on the SR Ranch.Dead horses, break-ins, barn fires, stolen tack were the order of the day. Surrounded by all of these people and mysteries, Tyler calls in his best friend and former roper from Montana, old Bill Winters.

This is the story of a man’s love for horses and his fight to regain his self-dignity and pride.

A super new Western Novel from Patrick Norris