Ida Clayton has never met her rodeo-rider dad. In her search to find him, she encounters the Sweethearts of the Rodeo, a group of female trick riders led by fomer rodeo star Terence Parker. Despite her young age, Ida covinces Parker to let her train to become one of the risk-taking Sweethearts. If she succeeds, she just might find the family she's been looking for.

Mike's best years are behind him. There was a time when he was the best rider in the circuit, but a divorce and years of hard living have worn his body down. After an accident, his career comes to an abrupt end, but his boss gives him one last job: he must cross the border into Mexico, kidnap his boss?s son, Rafo, from his boss?s ex-wife, to be used as leverage in their ongoing divorce. Mike arrives to find the boy has already run away, and his plan...

Presents a portrait of the Wright family of Smith Mesa and their achievements as successful rodeo champions and cattle ranchers, tracing their battles against natural obstacles and injuries and how the changes of the twenty-first century are challenging their future.