Description
Babs Westbrooke has spent years trading her family’s sprawling legacy for the cold, high-stakes world of activism. As one of the nation’s most prominent trans leaders, she has fought tooth and nail for her place at the table, but with her influence waning and her spirit exhausted, she returns to the quiet, rugged terrain of her family’s ranch in defeat. She expects isolation; she doesn’t expect Lee Ortega.
Lee is a fierce, up-and-coming dressage rider hired to tame Rayo, a volatile and magnificent stallion. She is unaware that her employment is the result of a power play within the Westbrooke family, but by the time she discovers she is an unwanted guest in Babs's life, she is already deeply tethered to both the horse and the woman who owns him.
As Lee attempts to navigate the elitist, pedigree-obsessed world of equestrian sports, she and Babs find themselves caught in a slow-burn collision of past regrets and future potential. Caught between the mounting political pressures of Babs’s public life and the raw, intimate connection they share in the stables, the two women must decide if their love is a final, reckless gamble or the only home worth fighting for.
