Skydancer and the Wind’s Way: Book FIVE (Painted Path Series 5)

Isabelle has always lived by the rules—her rules. Color-coded schedules, perfect grades, never a single step out of line. Being the “perfect daughter” has earned her praise, but inside, she feels like a bird trapped in a cage she built herself.

Everything changes when her family spends the summer in Windmere Ridge, a rugged valley where the wind never stops and nothing stays still. There, Isabelle spots a wild Missouri Fox Trotter on the hills—a silver-maned spirit called Skydancer, untamed and unreachable. No one can get near him. But Isabelle is drawn to the horse with a pull stronger than logic.

Determined to earn his trust, Isabelle sets out with a plan—until everything starts to unravel. Skydancer doesn’t want control. He wants presence. He wants truth. As Isabelle’s tidy world begins to fall apart, she must choose between holding on to the image she’s always projected… or letting go and finally learning what it means to be free.

A story of courage, connection, and wind-blown transformation, Skydancer and the Wind’s Way is a lyrical journey into the heart of a girl learning to live unbound.