Erica Rogers is disturbed by the fact that her horses are acting strangely and can't figure out why. There is also bizarre, inexplicable behavior among the horses in Nevada where a young man named Rory makes his home. Eventually wild mustangs and other horses band together to literally wipe Rory's town off the map in an exciting chapter entitled "Stampede." As for Erica, one of her horses kills a little girl, as well as her mother, while the rest of her formerly docile mounts attack her, her mother, and her cousin. The horses even develop a taste for human flesh! There are more bloody encounters at county fairs and race tracks even as Erica tries to track down the people responsible for this equine outrage.
This book is a reissue of a vintage "killer animal" paperback from the eighties and it is a lot of fun. Horses may seem unlikely antagonists, but the beasts in this book have been transformed and are extremely nasty and dangerous, and even undergo some physical changes. The author can't quite seem to make up his mind if it's a chemical, a plague, or supernatural influences that are responsible for the attacks -- or all three -- but it doesn't really matter. The paperback is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble and the ebook is on Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and others.
Verdict: Be careful whom you give a sugar cube to! ***
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