Miralee Ferrell

All Kate had ever wanted was a horse of her own.

Twelve-year-old Kate Ferris isn’t crazy about starting school in a different town in the middle of the year, but she doesn’t have a choice with her dad losing his job.

Now she’s stuck on her grandfather’s farm in Oregon with no friends and no riding lessons. All she wants for her birthday is a horse. Then she finds a dusty bridle in her grandfather’s huge barn. Now all she needs is a saddle and the horse to go with it.

Kate’s dream to run her own riding stable has just one hurdle …

Kate lives to ride her horse and compete in shows. But her best friend Tori has no horse to ride and no money to buy one. So Kate comes up with a plan: she can board horses in her family’s empty barn—after all, it has plenty of stalls and an indoor arena—and maybe they can even host a horse show with a set of silver spurs to the championship rider.

It seems like the perfect solution until Melissa, the most spoiled girl at their school, shows up as the first boarder, determined to win the spurs. Will their plans be ruined—or does God have something even better in store for them all?

In the third installment in the Horses and Friends series, thirteen-year-old Kate Ferris already has one problem.

Snooty, well-to-do Melissa is boarding her horse at Kate’s family stable. When Melissa suddenly turns nice, Kate is shocked … and suspicious.

The last thing she needs is more trouble. So when a hooded rider appears—and then disappears—on a stunning black horse outside her home, Kate isn’t sure if Melissa is playing a trick or something more dangerous is going on. Either way, Kate and her friends will need an extra measure of faith and courage to solve this mystery.

Thirteen-year old Kate and her friends came up with the perfect way to raise money for her autistic younger brother and others to attend summer camp—a horse scavenger hunt! 

As local businesses donate money and prizes, Kate keeps the entry fees in her mom’s antique jewelry box.

But when the box and the money disappear, Kate and her friends must unravel the clues, hold on to hope, and solve the mystery along the Blue Ribbon Trail Ride.

Who is the surprise visitor to Kate’s farm?

Summer is winding down for Kate and her friends when a surprise visitor appears at her family’s farm—a beautiful bay horse wearing a halter and a bad attitude. Dubbing the horse “Rebel,” the friends set out to find the horse’s owner.

Where did he come from—and why are horses all over the area disappearing from their pastures and paddocks? It’s a mystery that even the sheriff can’t solve, so Kate decides to head up the investigation. When Kate’s brother, Pete, who has autism, develops a strong connection to the new arrival, Kate wonders—did God bring Rebel to them for a bigger purpose?

Making friends, riding horses, solving mysteries, and relying on God—that’s what Horses & Friends stories are all about!

Can they save a fortune and a new friend?

“Hey, mister! You dropped something.” Kate and her friends witness a cantankerous old man drop part of a hand-drawn map, but he drives off in his beat-up Ford before they can give it back. They learn the man is Mr. Benson, a former prospector who lives in the nearby hills and wants to be left alone.

But when Kate and Tori overhear two men conspiring to rob Mr. Benson of his gold, they know they have to warn him before the thieves can strike. What will happen if their plan backfires and the men come after them?