It is January in Florida and the weather has settled into a pattern of cold and wet. At Second Chance Farm that means lots of muddy horses and ponies and tons more work. Emily is feeling confident that this is the year her luck will change. She is back riding her pony, her spot on the Junior Olympic team is secure and she has a year of team shows and riding in Europe to look forward to.
But not everyone is feeling that way and when their prize boarder Molly butts heads with a new client, things take a bad turn for the worse. The two women can’t get along at all and with limited riding space on the farm, things get frosty fast. One of them is going to have to go but neither wants to leave.
And the new training horse has a troubling problem. He won’t leave the barn or his new friends without flipping out. If Emily and her father want to successfully launch their training business, they have to prove that they can rehabilitate the new horse and fast. But the more Emily tries to force the horse and everyone else in her life into the slots she thinks they should be in, the more everyone resists. And with horses and people going completely off the rails, Emily might finally learn that she can’t control everything and sometimes you just have to let things go.