Review: Thrown by Colette Auclair

Thrown by Colette Auclair
Published by Ottawa Pages: 329

THROWN is a lighthearted yet steamy contemporary romance by Golden Heart finalist Colette Auclair, featuring a young woman who must choose between capturing a gold medal and the man who’s captured her heart.

In THROWN, professional trainer Amanda Vogel dreams of riding jumpers in the Olympics, but after seeing her best friend die in a riding accident, she’s so traumatized she can’t show. Broke and desperate, she takes a summer job in Aspen teaching some big-shot widowed movie star’s spoiled daughters to ride—even though she hates teaching kids. She braces herself for three miserable months. But by Labor Day, she has to choose between capturing a gold medal…and the man who has captured her heart.

THROWN was a 2012 Golden Heart finalist in the single-title contemporary romance category. It also won the 2011 Winter Rose Contest (Yellow Rose Romance Writers) and finaled in the 2011 Cleveland Rocks Romance Contest (North East Ohio Romance Writers Association).

What a marvelous story.  Once I started, I couldn’t seem to put it down.  Amandahad me intrigued right from the beginning.  She was easy to relate to, especially since I too experience anxiety.  This made me feel as though I could connect with her.  I felt this book was very well written, and the characters had depth, which is one of the things I enjoy most about books.  This one one you will for sure want to pick up!