Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in
him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was
said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Twenty years after those
storied events, the village is a quiet place. Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play
"Sleepy Hollow boys," reenacting the events Brom once lived through. But then Ben
and a friend stumble across the headless body of a child in the woods near the
village, and the sinister discovery makes Ben question everything the adults in
Sleepy Hollow have ever said.