After she's expelled from her latest school, Tessa's domineering step-father finds her a job at the local stables. She's left to look after Shiner, an ugly and seemingly untalented horse. But her interest in Shiner is fired when she discovers who his mother was.
This anthology includes approximately ten previously published short stories and extracts from novels spanning a wide range of stories involving horses.
Kidnapping is always an unpleasant business, but in Jonathan Meredith's case it is positively barbaric. Kept for hours on end in claustrophobic confinement, he remembers that he used to imagine suffocation as an innocuous death. He would never think that again.
Ruth has never ridden a pony before - but as soon as she lays eyes on lively Fly-by-Night, she knows he has to be hers. But where is she going to find the money for a saddle and bridle - and who is going to teach her to ride?
Jonathan Meredith did not like Robin, the English master at Meddington Boarding School. It was not his inability to control his classes that he disliked, but rather his indifference to the feelings of others. When Robin drowns in the river close to the school, Jonathan suspects murder.
Rowan is desperate for a horse of her own - so when her father narrowly misses colliding with a dark, beautiful stray, she feels he was always supposed to be hers. Exciting, passionate and adventurous, these stories from bestselling author K.M. Peyton are the perfect read for any girl who loves horses.
Strong-willed Minna is just a blacksmith's daughter, yet she raises a sickly abandoned foal to become the pride of the Roman cavalry. And when her fort is threatened by blood-thirsty pirates, the fate of her people depends on Minna and her beloved horse alone, as they set out on an impossible journey to fetch help.
A totally absorbing novel about twelve-year-old Christina who is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional undercurrents and cruelty.
When Minna's true love Theo leaves the lonely fort of Othona for the big city, Minna cannot bear to be left behind and steals away on her beloved pony, Silva, to follow him. But she has no idea that her actions will spark a deadly chain of events from which there can be no turning back.
When a group of English schoolchildren are told that they are to be in a tetrathlon (swimming, running, shooting and riding) against the perfect Greycoats school, they are totally unenthusiastic but rally when a teacher encourages them.
