Lauren Brooke

As Amy adjusts to life without her mother, she relies on her friend Ty, who shares with Amy the responsibility for maintaining Heartland, and when she's struck by another family crisis, it's to Ty that she turns for support.

Already struggling to keep up with the chores at Heartland and maintain a positive outlook while Ty is in the hospital, Amy is challenged in every way by the wild mustang that defies her attempts to reach out to him.

On a visit to their father's ranch in Australia, Lou has no difficulty accepting her father's new wife, Helena, while Amy seeks refuge in the stables and in working with Spirit, the reluctant grey gelding trained by Helena.

When Amy meets Daniel, she is shocked by his coldness, but after she spends time with him, she begins to understand his desire to avoid the spectacle of the show circuit, and his great love for his horse, Amber.

When Ty's father, Brad, makes an unexpected stop at Heartland, Amy is horrified to discover that he is transporting seven sick and dehydrated horses, which pits Ty against his father as he and Amy try to nurse the horses back to health.

The flu has overrun the horses at Heartland, and despite Amy and Ty's efforts to keep the unaffected horses out of risk, the illness keeps spreading, and causes a rift in friendships.

Amy must make a decision between two lifelong dreams--caring for sick and injured horses or showing Storm in major competition--when she realizes she cannot be dedicated to both.

Amy's mother founded Heartland, a place for healing traumatized horses, but Amy, who inherited her mother's skills with horses, must continue her work after an accident on a stormy night kills her mother.

Although she is still in pain from her mother's death, Amy must use all her skills with horses to help Spartan, the animal they were trying to rescue the night her mother was killed.