Animalic

In the sunbaked wilds of Jackson, Wyoming, two girls are rewriting the rules of the rodeo. Ellie Williams is the town's only rodeo clown-a daredevil with a bruised body, a crooked grin, and a secret longing that follows her like a shadow. Abby Anderson, Jackson's lone female bull rider, has a room full of blue ribbons and the weight of her father's legacy pressing down on her shoulders.

As summer deepens, the rodeo grounds buzz with heat, grit, and the constant hum of small-town gossip. While Joel and the rest of the found family scrape by, Ellie finds herself drawn toward Dina, the preacher's daughter, while wrestling with her own place in a world that doesn't always want to make room for her kind of wild. Abby, caught between her dad's dreams and her own, is determined to prove she's just as tough-and just as deserving-as any man in the ring.

Their paths cross in the dust and chaos of the arena, and sparks begin to fly-both in the ring and out. But old secrets, hard choices, and the echo of family heartache threaten to upend everything they've fought for.

Animalic is a slow-burn, small-town AU about found family, bruised knuckles, girls who love too hard, and what it means to risk everything for the chance to be seen-by the crowd, by the world, and by each other.