Black Stallion Books in Order

Young Alec Ramsay survives a shipwreck and is stranded on an island with a wild black stallion. Their fight to stay alive becomes the start of one of children's literature's great boy and horse friendships.

When men come for the Black, Alec learns one wants the horse dead and another claims him by right. To get him back, Alec follows the stallion to Arabia and into danger far beyond the racetrack.

Alec thinks the Black's first son is a dream come true, until the fierce colt proves nearly impossible to handle. To win Satan's trust, Alec must risk getting closer to a horse bred for speed and violence.

On a remote Caribbean dig, Steve Duncan discovers a huge wild stallion hidden on Azul Island. Saving the horse from quicksand is only the first step in earning Flame's trust.

Alec finally has the Black back, but another legend is waiting, the Black's own son, Satan. A showdown between the two stallions turns deadly when a forest fire sends them racing for their lives.

Young Tom Messenger helps raise Bonfire, the Black's blood bay colt, while aging driver Jimmy Creech bets his comeback on the horse. It's a harness racing story about patience, skill, and a colt with real champion promise.

Steve and Pitch are the only ones who know the hidden valley where Flame's wild herd lives. When Tom discovers the place and tries to seize it, the boys must protect both the island and the horses.

Everyone dismisses Black Minx, the Black's first filly, but Alec sees something special in her. Training her for Churchill Downs means balancing speed, nerves, and a stubborn mind very much like her father's.

After the Black attacks another horse, Alec takes him west for room and freedom. Then an accident leaves Alec without his memory and the stallion alone in the canyon, pulled back toward the wild.

Bonfire is headed for the Hambletonian until a violent crash leaves him frightened of the track. Alec steps in to help the harness colt recover and prove he can live up to the Black's name.

Steve Duncan wants the world to see how fast Flame can run, even if the stallion has never truly been broken. The racetrack offers glory, money, and trouble that Steve may not be ready for.

When Hopeful Farm burns, Alec needs money to rebuild and a new star named Eclipse is stealing the spotlight. Saving the farm means asking the Black to prove, one more time, that champions do not fade quietly.

A deadly trap tells Alec that someone is after him and the Black. A startling clue then sends Alec and Henry to Spain, where the search for the Black's sire becomes a tense mystery.

While waiting out a delayed flight, Henry Dailey tells Alec a story from his own youth. It follows Henry and his gifted brother Bill as they expose a cruel fake horse-tamer in an earlier American world.

A plane crash strands Alec and the Black in the Caribbean and brings them back to Flame's island. Two proud stallions must stop fighting long enough to face a new threat to the herd.

Alec and Steve Duncan bring the Black and Flame together for the race everyone wants to see. Speed is only part of the problem, because these stallions have met before and they hate each other.

While riding through the Everglades, Alec meets a strange man mounted on a ghostly gray mare. Curiosity turns to fear as Alec and the Black are drawn into a dangerous chase through the swamp.

Hopeful Farm needs help, and Pam Athena seems too slight to matter until Alec sees her work with the horses. Soon she is changing life at the farm, and even the Black lowers his guard around her.

Grieving and restless, Alec leaves Hopeful Farm and wanders the Arizona desert with the Black. A Native American prophecy, and a sudden disaster from the sky, give the pair a challenge far bigger than any race.

This prequel tells the Black's story before Alec ever meets him. Born in Sheikh Abu Ishak's mountain stronghold, the young colt escapes robbers and must learn to survive alone in the wild.