I greatly enjoyed Another Kind of Cowboy, a fine coming of age story by Susan Jubal... Alex's love of dressage and horses shines through the story, and the issue of his homosexuality is dealt with in a mature realistic fashion.
"For Alex Ford, dressage is an oasis. In the stable, he can slip into his riding pants, shed the macho cowboy image, and feel like himself for a change. For Cleo O'Shea, dressage is a fresh start. She's got a new boarding school, absentee parents, and, best of all, no one to remember her past. At Limestone Farm, their lives collide and while originally Alex doesn't want anything to do with privileged Cleo, he soon realizes that maybe she could be the only person around to fully understand him. From the author of the Alice series comes a fun, but heartbreaking stand-alone story, with two realistic main characters with not-so-great pasts and not much better presents..." James Booth
