Green contains 25 biting chapters of useful horse-world information including how to find a barn, what to do with horse crazy kids, conquering riding goals, re-starting as an adult, the real scoop on “horse whisperers,” and the timeless answer to “How much should I pay for a horse?”

Green is one woman’s quest to prevent you from making mistakes, burning out, and quitting horses altogether. It is the missing horse manual you always wanted.

Here is the full chapter list:

Green: the (Missing) Horseback Rider’s Guide for Keeping Your Money, Sanity, and Joy table of contents

1. How to Find a Barn
2. Lesson Horses: The Reality
3. What Defines a Good Trainer?
4. Whither Humility
5. How Do I Know I Had a Good Lesson?
6. The Adult Rider
7. So You’ve Got a Horse Crazy Kid?
8. Buying or Leasing a Pony
9. Goal Realization
10. Showing, Explained
11. Money Commitments
12. Time Commitments
13. When to Lease a Horse
14. When to Buy a Horse
15. So You Don’t Know What You’re Doing…and You Just Bought a Horse
16. A Primer on Barn Etiquette
17. Winners, Losers, and a Whole Lot of Dreck
18. When the Crazies Ratify a Constitution
19. The Only Chapter on Equipment
20. You’re Looking for a Horse Whisperer Because You Were Sold a Horse You Can’t Handle
21. The Importance of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Opinions
22. What to do if You Get in Over Your Head
23. Education Fights Deception
24. Good Horsemanship
25. The Bonus Chapter from Kristine’s Husband