'Black Beauty' meets 'Dharma Bums' in this tale of jumping horses, the people who live by them, and those who seek to use them for their own ends. Professional jump rider 'Chelle Martin finds herself in the middle of an intrigue where drugs and dreams collide - while juggling horses, an out-of-control-teenaged daughter, potential romance, & even, perhaps, a new career.

Professional rider 'Chelle Martin knew she shouldn't have agreed to ride Milo Cashman's undisciplined green jumper in the rain at a high stakes horse show in upstate New York. But the challenge - and the money - proved irresistible, so she gambled... and lost. Waking up much later in hospital with her leg in traction and her career sidelined, it looks like she is indeed Fortune's Fool. But fate hasn't finished with 'Chelle. The sudden disappearance of Milo Cashman, the horse, and a large sum of money belonging to other people are followed by a serendipitous meeting at Saratoga Racetrack and a...