It’s winter vacation and Carlotta’s Mercy Ranch for horses has opened! Young guests are arriving and Ricki and
her friends have been invited to spend one week there with their horses, helping out. But soon, there’s trouble:
twelve-year-old Caitlin, angry over the death of her mother, alienates the other guests and then runs away just as
a snowstorm hits. Lina, one of the helpers at the ranch, is crazy about Diablo and dreams of riding him – with or
without Ricki’s permission. And that leads to a dangerous incident…