Vivienne Taylor, a student at the Fairmont Riding Academy, is an equine empath who can sense horses' feelings and when a friend goes missing, she uses her ability to enlist the help of the school's horses to solve the mystery.

After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.