Milly's dream of making it as a jockey are in tatters when she finds herself stuck on her parent's stud farm outside Newmarket. Her father has told her she will be doing no more riding, after an accident, and her mother's determined to make Milly more ladylike, so Milly is forced to watch as her odious brother Jasper pursues the career that she so desperately wanted for herself. Then to add insult to injury for Kate, she finds that Bobby Cameron, said to be the best trainer in America, last in the line of an old cowboy family and heir to the Highwood ranch in California, has been brought in by an owner. Bobby has every woman on the racing circuit falling at his feet, but when he asks Milly to work on his ranch, it seems that all her prayers have been answered - more than she ever bargained for ...