Just when Winnie Willis feels like school could almost be tolerable, Summer Spidell has to be… well, Summer. Worse, Winnie’s friend Hawk is away for Christmas vacation, and Winnie is lonely. Then a mysterious horse that’s sick and with foal shows up in the pasture behind her house. Suddenly, Winnie is caught in a life-and-death death struggle with the old mare.
Who is the horse’s owner? Will Winnie be able to keep—and save—this “gift horse”?