The series revolves around four girls who live together at a boarding school in Virginia called Chestnut Hill, where they take classes and ride horses at a stable on the campus.
Lauren Brooke has said that she went through a lot of preparation for this series, including listing and developing over one hundred names and drawing maps of her new setting.
Author Lauren Brooke has created ties between her popular series Heartland and Chestnut Hill.
Amy, the main character of Heartland, gave a talk in the first novel and helped Malory solve the rusting issue with Tybalt in the second Chestnut Hill book, Making Strides as well.
She has wanted to attend Chestnut Hill since fourth grade, and becomes best friends with Honey, Lani, and Malory, while making quick enemies with Lynsey Harrison and Patience Duvall.
On a holiday, Dylan meets a cute French boy called Henri and wants him to be her boyfriend in the 4th book.
She is a shy Irish American girl and finds it difficult to talk about personal issues.
A boy, Josh, from Saint Christopher's, the nearby boarding school, seems to like Honey, and she has attended a dance with him.
Later in the book, Honey discovers that it was Dylan who bought Minnie, since her parents were looking to buy a new show pony.
Lani Hernandez - originally learned to ride Western, and is known to wear chaps instead of jodhpurs or breeches.
She has a mother and father and three older Mexican American sisters named Marta, Guadeloupe, and Dacil.
Lani shows a romantic interest in Sam, whom she met in Heart of Gold and later began a relationship with in A Time to Remember.
She is the replacement for the previous Director of Riding, Elizabeth Mitchell, who decided to leave Chestnut Hill.
Lynsey has made fast enemies with the four main characters, Dylan, Malory, Honey, and Lani, due to her snobby attitude.
Lynsey's older sisters Sienna and Rachel attended Chestnut Hill prior to her, both of whom were very successful there.
Having Edward Hunter Duvall, author of a bestselling fantasy book series, as a father adds to her yet another reason to look down upon the less socially-prominent students.
Patience has a Connemara named Moonlight Minuet that her father bought for her because he enjoys horse riding.
His daughter, however, was irresponsible and schooled Minnie in wet sand, causing her to strain a tendon.
She is also enemies with the four main characters after she tattled on Dylan for jumping Morello as a midnight dare set by Lynsey.
He has had a rather complicated relationship with Lani; she found out about him when helping Honey escape a show to see him in hospital, where he is suffering from Leukaemia.
Her mother owns an art gallery in New York and is a rather big traveller, going to all sorts of places such as the Norwegian Fjords and Africa.
Wei Lin Chang - is an Asian American girl who is another non rider in Adams at Chestnut Hill.
Amy Fleming - The main character from "Heartland" is called in to assist Malory with Tybalt's issues around trusting her, managing to avert his sale as a result.
"Heart Of Gold" - When Edward Hunter Duvall buys his daughter Patience a beautiful grey Connemara pony named Moonlight Minuet "Minnie" Honey can't help but fall in love with her.
The two hatch a plan to stow away from the All Schools League Show in which they're helping the Chestnut Hill team, and head to the hospital where Sam is ill.