Just Ales

The girl who never thought she'd fall fell.
Alessandra Heartwood, known to friends as Ales, is the best junior rider in the country. She was beautiful, famous, and talented. She was known in her hometown like the girl who'd left and hit it big in Hollywood. Ales has built her name while concealing a devastating family life and is an expert at masking her true emotions, and putting on a facade. How else would she get to the top?
Then a horrific accident kills her horse, Hermes, and Ales finds her way back home without the only thing that's ever held her together. She hides under hair dye and colored contacts, afraid of the publics reaction if they knew she wasn't invincible. How would her classmates and friends treat her when they knew she was back? Ales wants to go back to being Just Ales, not The Alessandra Heartwood.
With her movie star status, Ales doesn't even know if that's possible.