Lexi is content with the teenage life she is living. At school she is popular and she has numerous friends. There is only one thing that could seem wrong, and that is her fear and dislike of horses. But she doesn't have any real contact with horses, and that could hardly be considered a problem. It is always far from her mind. But when summer comes, and Lexi's parents decide to go on a long cruise in the Pacific, she ends up at her uncle's horse ranch. There is no way to escape the big animals now. Everything is wrong then. It is hard to get used to her life on the ranch. Her friends and...

With the Spaniards occupying the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, there are plenty of things to worry about. But for Eleuia, a quiet Aztec slave, life doesn't seem so different. She is far from the commotion and uneasiness in the heart of the city.

It isn't that the Spaniards' arrival has no effect on her. She has seen the Spaniards. She had heard the rumors. When she sees a horse for the first time the magnificent creature fascinates her. She can hardly believe it when such an animal comes to be in her possession. She tries to do everything she can to conceal it, even when she has to break the...