Twelve-year-old David has conflicting feelings when his father, who taught him to ride the horses he loves so much, returns to spend Thanksgiving Day with the family after being gone for a year.

Meg, Jill, and Annie know a lot about riding their ponies, but they still have a lot to learn, as they go for a trail ride.

"In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol Creek--where he grew up and first learned to ride--is a place he can no longer call home. So he sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies and rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth"--dust jacket....

Abby is worried her unmasked blackmailer will expose the one secret she cannot risk getting out, and to make matters worse, the drama is affecting her performance on Beau, putting her place on the team in jeopardy.

Merritt Wenner has been sent to an equine therapy program where she meets Red--a failed racehorse and a terror in the barn--and begins competitive hunter/jumper riding, finding herself drawn to the groom, Beatrice, and a rival rider, Carvin.

When Willa is visited by a friend she hasn't seen in a year, she realizes that people change and aren't always the way they once were.

Thirteen year old Sadie Navarro wants to make her father proud but must overcome obstacles that could stand in her way at her first horse show.

"When an accident seriously injures his father, fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick saddles his half broke mustang stallion to take his father's place in a horse race from Texas to New England offering $3,000 to the winner. He will discover what America can offer, both good and bad"--

With an important riding competition coming up next week and someone sabotaging the other riders, Melanie finds herself the prime suspect and facing disqualification, unless she can prove her innocence.

A billionaire heiress, a working student, and the daughter of a famous rock star compete on horseback riding's elite A circuit.