Fourteen-year-old Crystal and her friend Megan accompany Crystal's father to Idaho and find themselves investigating a series of strange occurrences in the town involving a gang posing as the community's leading citizens.
Rivals on a high school rodeo team learn to come to terms with each other when they become trapped in a blizzard in the Montana mountains.
When her horse is stolen just before the state high school rodeo finals in Idaho, Crystal, her sister, and friends conduct a search which brings them into contact with terrorists.
Crystal and her friends discover a locked safe in a burned-out lumber mill and find that they are not the only ones interested in its contents.
Crystal's first week in her new home in Winchester, Idaho, proves exciting as she tries out for the high school rodeo team and together with some new friends finds a lost treasure.
While spending a week with her father in the Idaho mountains, fourteen-year-old Crystal helps uncover a fraudulent plot involving an abandoned gold mine.