Sharpshooter Margaret Welty and alchemical apprentice Weston Winters form an unlikely team competing for glory in a magical fox hunt--while she wants to lure her mother home, Wes needs the prize money to support his family and his political aspirations.
Jane Arnold, the seventy-something Master of the prestigious Jefferson Hunt Club, sets a trap to catch a killer when the skeleton of Nola Bancroft--missing for over twenty years--comes to light still wearing her distinctive sapphire ring.
The Saddle Club is invited to participate in a fox hunt, but the girls are worried that Stevie's brothers will sabotage the hunt as revenge for her practical jokes.
Half-dog, half porcupine in appearance, Bristle Face becomes an outstanding hunting dog and a good friend of the fourteen-year-old orphan boy who adopts him.
Nancy is invited to visit her friend Laura Passano's Maryland horse farm just in time for the opening of the fox hunt season, but a series of unusual accidents sets Nancy on the trail of a saboteur who apparently wants to put a halt to the annual tradition.
