Saddles, stars & stripes

Away from home during the battle of Vicksburg, fourteen-year-old Jacquetta returns to find her parents gone and the plantation in Yankee hands, but with help from a slave girl, she devises a plan to rescue the family's Morgan horses.

Fifteen-year-old Lexie follows the Pony Express Trail in search of her brother. Lexie McDonald is left an orphan when her father dies so she takes her horse, Cougar, and sets out to find her brother rather than be sent to New York to live with an aunt.