"Nicky Wyman loved horses. She had a great but latent talent as a horseman, but Nicky came from a background where there was never enough money to spare for anything but essentials. To keep riding she mucked out stables, cleaned tack, and exercised other prople's horses. Then fate and circumstances took a hand, and Nicky found herself, together with a strange recluse named Snowbuck, and a social misfit called Sam, battling to save the life of a mare - Moonjumper"-- Back cover.