The novel tells the story of a young widow Maddy Richards who, to cope with her bereavement, has turned her small farm into livery stables. Whilst losing herself through hard and absorbing work with horses she comes to terms with her grief. However, her life is thrown into chaos when her friend Tamsin is killed in a freak riding accident. Maddy, without thinking of the danger to herself and her horses, vows to find out how and why her friend died. In spite of the subsequent turmoil and threats to her own life, she unexpectedly falls in love.