Fifty Miles at a Breath

Horses bring them together and their future looks rosy—it's the present they can't handle.
When equine veterinary student Lena and veteran pilot Blake fall in love, 
vet school and the past intrude. Add in a long-distance relationship, and
things get just plain hard.
A grueling endurance race tests their horse--
  and their relationship. Can they make it?
BOOK THREE IN THE ONCE UPON A VET SCHOOL: VET SCHOOL 24/7 SERIES
Books by Lizzi Tremayne: Unpretentious, eminently readable Contemporary and Historical Fiction... by a horse vet!
AWARDS FOR THE AUTHOR
With Lizzi's first novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was: Winner 2016 True West Best Western Romance, Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings; Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award; Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel plus third in Koru Long Novel section; and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award.  
The Once Upon a Vet School Overall Series
Drama and humor abound as Lena pursues her childhood dream of becoming an equine vet—and beyond—in this unique series of six independent sequences:
~Junior Years~
~High School Days ~
~College Nights
~Vet School 24/7~
~Practice Time~
Currently Available The Stories of the Once Upon a Vet School Series
~Vet School 24/7~
Fifty Miles at a Breath (III)
Horses bring them together and their future looks rosy—it's the present they can't handle.
Lena Takes a Foal (IV)
She needs help... he needs to stay away...
~Practice Time~
Greener Pastures Calling (II)
A new country, a great job, and a good Kiwi bloke. Life couldn't be better.
Until it gets worse