A new equestrian academy for all types of magic users and magical beings has opened up and green witch, Lizzi Mosswager received a full-ride scholarship. She arrives with her Appendix Quarter Horse, Sunny, hoping to compete in western and English dressage. Meeting her new roommate, Corbie, an animal mage with an affinity for birds, isn't difficult enough, because soon she's thrust into a world where her fellow students are from powerful families or even descended from gods.When she stops some illicit magic use from causing problems in the cafeteria, her instructors put her, and other students, in the impossible position of looking for unsanctioned magic. And when the culprit is discovered, it's none other than the daughter of one of the school's biggest benefactors who thinks she can get away with anything, including framing Lizzi's roommate.Will the truth come out and when it does, will it cost Lizzi and Corbie their places at the school?
Lizzi has mostly moved on from the incident with the bank, and her fellow students seem to have forgotten. It helps that she's now eating lunch and riding with Lirael Runebitten, the daughter of a powerful Elf family who can make things happen. But Lizzi is struggling to keep up with her other friends, and when the school starts a rodeo club, she's thinking about adding something else to her already busy schedule. Lizzi realizes she's going to have to choose, and a rough dressage test brings that choice ever closer. She'd hoped to have the holiday break to think about things, but her decision to bring Corbie home creates its own bunch of problems. And now Xenia has been acting strangely, almost as if she likes Lizzi. With each passing day Lizzi is getting more and more unsure of just what her place at Divine Rein is supposed to be and who the best source of advice might be.