When a quarter-million-dollar show horse and a top trainer are found brutally murdered side by side, Natalie Gold, a reporter for "Charlotte Commercial Appeal", seizes the chance to get off the fashion beat she so detests. Teamed with handsome investigative reporter Henry Goode, it is Natalie who knows the rich, competitive, and devious world of the show horse circuit. Together they make the rounds of the Carolina show horse circuit, pumping society matrons for scandals and tracking down trainers. But as they close in on the truth, Nattie becomes the target for a series of increasingly savage death threats, not only to herself, but to her beloved horse, Brenda Starr . . .