Michael is inexplicably drawn to Annie, but a deep and mysterious river divides themMichael Duggan feels lost.

After the death of his younger sister in a riding accident, his parents have relocated their family and their horse-dealing business to Scotland.

Days and nights are taken up with caring for the horses and ponies, showing them to buyers, and competing in shows.

School is a blurMichael has no friends and no clear sense of who he is.

He feels completely alone in the world, until he meets Annie, a girl who, like him, seems to want to flee from something; a girl who has dark secrets of her own.

Michael desperately wants to be with Annie. But she lives on the opposite side of the treacherous Annan Water . . .