After assaulting Cloud Nine Racing Stable's owner, John Barlow, 18 year old Claire Smallwood must face the repurcussions in a court room with biased lawyers and bribed judges. Claire knows no one will believe her story, that the man she attacked poisoned his prize race horse, Zap, a horse she'd loved and given her heart to. John Barlow is powerful enough to point the blame to her mother but Claire won't stop unil she unmasks John's lie. After she is pronounced guilty and moved into the custody of Social Services, Claire is placed on a farm for abused and mistreated animals. But this won't stop her, she's determined to prove her charge against John. As the lie unwravels, the key becomes a scrawny and abused mare who she rescues at an auction. It turns out Zylah is connected to the horse she lost more ways than one. Based off the book: Shadow Horse