"I can't really believe this is actually happening," said Bobby. "It was only this afternoon that everything seemed wonderful ..."

A terrible freak air accident destroys part of Bracken stables, and leaves owner Guy Mathews in hospital, badly injured.

Bobby and Heath are left to try and keep the stables going. It is a battle. Bobby has a new horse to school: Phoenix, but she also needs to teach his owner how to ride him. And then there is a disastrous ride where one of their promising young pupils has a fall and loses her nerve ... Bracken Stables's local reputation is taking knocks from which it might not recover.

And Bobby is slowly realising Guy means more to her than she realised.

With a new introduction by the author, Gillian Baxter, this is the second of the much-loved Bracken Stables series, out of print for 40 years.