13-year-old Grace suffers a terrible accident while out horseback riding one frosty morning. This tragedy sets Grace, her mother, Annie, and father, Robert on separate paths toward healing. Annie, used to being a high-powered business woman, takes charge; she will “fix” Grace’s battered horse, and mend Grace’s spirit in the process. This quest leads them to a Montana ranch where Tom Booker works his magic as the horse whisperer. The horse is terribly wounded, but no more so than mother and daughter, whose close-off emotions have formed scars as binding as the animal’s visible ones. Tom says he is not a miracle worker but he manages to bring those emotions out into the open and set them on a path towards healing, at least until …

It is a gripping story and hard to put down, which makes this long book a fast read. However, I'm not sure Annie was completely believable.