When Melanie Chambers discovered what happened to her father's valuable thoroughbred stallion after it disappeared during a violent storm, she unearthed a chain of deceptions that she would never have dreamt of being involved in. Three years later when the stallion's mare and colt are brought home from the tussock, life looks like returning to normal. But now Melanie, nearly seventeen, faces a tough final year at college while struggling with strange events and threats to her safety, a confusing rift in her long-term association with Tom, a new boy on the block vying for her attentions, and an unpleasant episode with a previously trusted school friend. Her family watch almost helplessly as Melanie struggles to deal with the problems being thrown at her.