Sixteen-year-old Cicely Ellis 'knows' her parents abandoned her for new
lives where they don't have to deal with a kid like her and she should
be grateful to the aunt and uncle who put a roof over her head. However,
while they didn't leave her homeless, they don't understand the passion
she has for horses, and they They won't pay for lessons, much less the
training her goals require. Cicely works at Salmon Pond Stable,
watering, mucking, cleaning tack, grooming, saddling - performing any
horsey chore just to have the chance to 'catch' a ride on the horses
which makes her a 'catch rider' and causes some of the regular students
to consider her their personal groom or servant. When the woman who
sponsors Cicely to show her Paint mare, Pallas Athena moves the 'horse
of her heart' to Shamrock Stable, she goes too. Now, she has new things
to learn, but also the secret of the parents who left her behind years
ago. Everything comes with a price, but will the cost she's expected to
pay be too high?