The Ride of Her Life by Jennifer Dugan

The Ride of Her Life

A Novel

Jennifer Dugan, Lindsey Dorcus, Avon

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 28, 2024

From the author of Love at First Set, a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, about a wedding-obsessed city girl who inherits a horse farm from her estranged late aunt, and clashes with the cocky, unfairly hot farrier who thinks she’s going to run the barn into the ground.

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Who it’s for
A queer rom-com pairs barn trouble with prickly attraction and hard choices.
Genres
Lesbian Romance, Romantic Comedy, Small-Town Romance
Published
HarperCollins, May 28, 2024

About this book

From the author of Love at First Set, a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, about a wedding-obsessed city girl who inherits a horse farm from her estranged late aunt, and clashes with the cocky, unfairly hot farrier who thinks she’s going to run the barn into the ground. Molly McDaniel’s life is falling apart.

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Between her day job as a barista, her night job at a call center, and her crushing student loans, she’s barely getting by. And that dream she has of starting a wedding event planning business? The dream that led to all those student loan in the first place? She can feel it slipping farther and farther out of reach every day. So the absolute last thing she needs is to discover she’s inherited a run-down, struggling horse barn out of the blue, courtesy of her estranged late aunt. Molly is so ill-equipped to run the barn, it’s laughable. She certainly doesn’t have the money, time or knowledge needed to save it, no matter how much faith everyone who loved her aunt has that she will. But the more Molly gets involved, the more she starts to wonder: maybe the barn is a blessing in disguise. If she can sell the land, the profits could be the small-business seed money miracle she’s been waiting for. So what if she’s starting to love everyone in the mismatched family she’s found here? Well, everyone except Shani, the resident farrier and family friend who took care of Molly’s aunt in her last days. Judgmental, grouchy Shani, who refuses to give up on the barn; who walks around like she so much better than Molly; who’s actually really good with the horses…and kind of thoughtful. And obnoxiously hot. And unfailingly loyal. And suddenly, Shani has become an entirely different kind of problem, one Molly can’t possibly solve, not without risking her whole future, no matter how much her heart wishes she could.

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A queer rom-com pairs barn trouble with prickly attraction and hard choices.

Come here for

  • Grumpy-sunshine chemistry among horses, family, and uncertain plans
  • A wedding-planning dream tangled with an unexpected inheritance

Expect

  • Romantic friction with a loyal, grouchy farrier
  • A warm mix of humor, heart, and competing futures

Where it sits

Romantic Comedy93%
Lesbian Romance85%
Small-Town Romance43%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Lesbian Fiction
  • Contemporary Romance
  • Lesbian Romance
  • Romantic Comedy
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  • Bisexual Romance
  • Women's Fiction
  • Family Life
  • Small-Town Fiction
Authors
Jennifer Dugan, Lindsey Dorcus, Avon
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
May 28, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Lesbian Fiction