Sonnia desperately wants to have enough money to buy Ricochet, the horse she adores at the king's stables, but her family barely makes enough money from their struggling pony-ride business to send her and her sister to school. Everything changes when Ricochet is moved to a racetrack across town, and Sonnia gets a job taking care of the horse there. With the opportunity to earn more money to help support her family and save up to buy Ricochet, she thinks everything is falling into place. In addition, Sonnia's selected to join the junior racing cadre, a group of young riders training to become jockeys, but things get complicated when she learns some of the riders are participating in the Night Ride, a dangerous and illegal race that takes place in the middle of the night.
