Once Dream of Night was a champion racehorse, but by the time Jess DiLima gets him he's nearly dead from starvation and pneumonia, and his thin hide is covered in scars. Twelve-year-old Shiloh is scarred, too, both from physical abuse and from the emotional withering of years in foster care. Jess doesn't feel up to the challenge of either one of them, but she knows that she may represent their last chance. Their story is told in third-person, present-tense narration that shifts its focus among the three principals: Jess, Shiloh and Night. WARNING: the scenes and flashbacks of abuse are realistically graphic.
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