Kym Davis knows Texas. She knows horses, family, Southern tradition—and exactly how dangerous it can be to give someone enough of your heart to break it.​

 

Beautiful, independent, and carrying more beneath her Southern-belle confidence than most people will ever see, Kym returns to the familiar world of trail rides, country music, family, and hometown history expecting nothing more than a weekend surrounded by the people and traditions that raised her. What she doesn’t expect is Derrick Johnson.

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Tall, commanding, undeniably handsome, and a Texas cowboy down to his bones, Derrick is the kind of man a woman notices before he ever says a word. There is something steady about him. Something masculine. Something quietly dangerous beneath that cowboy hat and those knowing eyes. But Derrick has a history of his own—and some parts of the past have a way of finding you just when you’re finally ready to leave them behind.
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From the moment Kym and Derrick’s worlds collide, their attraction is impossible to ignore.
 

What begins with lingering glances and an unexpected spark soon becomes something hotter as the Texas sun sinks low, the music gets louder, horses gather for the ride, and one unforgettable weekend pulls them closer than either intended to go.

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But this isn’t just a story about desire.

Because in the South, family remembers everything.​

 

Old wounds don’t disappear simply because nobody talks about them. Secrets have roots. Former loves leave footprints. And sometimes the very people who taught you what love should look like are the reason you’re afraid to surrender to it.

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Against the intoxicating backdrop of a contemporary Southern trail ride—where cowboys arrive on horseback, music carries into the night, drinks pour cold, boots hit the dirt, and generations of Southern culture come alive—Kym and Derrick will have to decide whether the heat between them belongs only to one wild weekend…

or whether they’ve stumbled into the kind of love neither of them saw coming.​

 

Sexy, emotionally layered, and steeped in contemporary Southern culture, A Trail Ride Kind of Love is a spicy Western romance about two grown people with complicated histories, undeniable chemistry, and enough family drama waiting in the wings to threaten the very thing neither knew they were searching for.​

 

This isn’t the Old West.

This is Texas now.​

 

And somewhere between the juke joint, the open trail, the rhythm of hooves against Texas dirt, and the arms of one unforgettable cowboy, Kym Davis may discover that sometimes love doesn’t arrive quietly.

 

Sometimes it rides straight toward you.

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A contemporary Western romance by Johnita M. Smith