Plagued with foreboding, fourteen-year-old Miranda Stevens wonders what could go wrong. For starters, her best friend, Laurie, has to cancel their long-planned weekend. Even after Miranda talks her parents into letting her go to the Crow Fair without Laurie, the feeling persists. Miranda goes with an old horse trainer and friend, Higgins, and her friend, Christopher, to Crow Agency, Montana, where she plans to race three horses. Still, the sense of...