Boots & Barrels

An small town, dreams for the dreaming romance

Rowenae Davis thought she'd traded country roads for hospital hallways for good. Born and raised in Dripping Sean, Alabama, she was once the town's golden girl-an unbeatable horse rider in the fair circuit and a carefree teen.
But after an long conversation life took her to Huntsville, where she built a new life as a skilled labor and delivery nurse, working long night shifts and keeping her past tucked safely away.

That is, until one long night shift morning, the call comes. Her father has passed. The farm-his story, is now hers and her mother's to manage.
With a lifetime of memories falling to her doorstep, Rowenae returns to the hometown she swore she'd left behind. She's not the same wide-eyed girl who used to gallop through the fairgrounds-she's grown, hardened by city life, but still carrying that wild, aching fire inside her. She's not sure if she belongs here anymore... or if she ever truly stopped belonging.

One evening, she takes a walk near the fairgrounds, needing air, needing space- and that's when she sees him.

A lean, broad-shouldered cowboy in the saddle, commanding his horse like it's second nature. He's new. He doesn't know her name, her past, or the ribbons that once bore it. To him, she's just a woman on the edge of the fence line, watching with quiet intensity.
But the pull is Magnetic.

He's cocky, capable, and all slow Southern charm-and something about him makes her wonder if he would ever stop bothering her.
The town may still whisper, and the weight of grief might cling to her boots, but with every encounter, the line between what she left and what she could have begins to blur.