When Molly Ballard steals money from the stable where she works, she is seen by FBI agent Will Lyman, who uses his knowledge to coerce her into posing as his girlfriend in an undercover investigation into a racehorse-fixing scheme, setting the stage for danger and love.

Nealy Coleman was only 17 and deathly ill when she took her baby, Emmie, and fled into a snowstorm before her father could carry out his threat to send her little girl to an orphanage. Fate guided them to Maud Diamond's stud farm, where Nealy's sad story and her talent for working with horses earned her a place in the old woman's heart and convinced Maud that Nealy alone could chose the right mare and stallion to produce the farm's third Kentucky...