CHASING LOVE by PIPER RAYNE is AVAILABLE NOW in Print & Audio
It was over between Bennett Owens and me—until I had no place to go but back to Willowbrook.
Seven years ago, he walked away, and I built a new life for myself, swearing never to look back. But when my husband is arrested, that life collapses, leaving my daughter and me with nothing but a three-month plan to return to the small ranch town before disappearing again.
Bennett’s a single dad now. Our girls become inseparable on sight, making it impossible to keep him at arm’s length. Especially when I end up working alongside him, where every glance chips away at the walls I’ve built.
The years apart haven’t dulled the pull between us. Bennett remains protective and patient, determined to prove that we deserve a second chance. But he has no idea about the secret I’ve kept since the day he left.
Because once he learns the truth, he may never forgive me. And like it or not, we’ll be bound together forever—by the daughter he never knew was his.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
Chasing Love is a heartfelt second-chance romance between childhood sweethearts Bennett and Delaney.
Delaney’s world crumbles when her husband is arrested for running a high-profile drug trafficking ring, and she’s forced to move back home to Willowbrook with her young daughter to piece her life back together. But being back home means running into her first love, Bennett, who has been raising his daughter, Wren, all alone since his wife died in childbirth. As it turns out, there’s a reason Bennett never moved on in the seven years since his wife died, and it’s not because he was grieving her…
Bennett and Delaney’s story is told in the present day, but through a series of letters she writes to her incarcerated husband Sean (whom she is divorcing), we learn that she and Bennett briefly reunited seven years ago when they worked at the same company. But when presented with a must-choose situation, Bennett left Delaney behind. That moment changed both of their lives forever, and it’s something he’s regretted ever since. It also led her to keep their child from him all these years.
I find that the secret-child trope can be a tricky one; if I don’t buy the character’s justification for hiding a child from the father, then it’s more or less over for me. I am happy to say that I understood Delaney’s reasons for keeping Leia from Bennett, and I was really glad that it didn’t take him until the very end to forgive her. Sure, he was upset and hurt, and rightfully so. But after a hilltop chat with his mom (I love those, BTW), he got over himself and realized that the endgame was more important than the mistakes they’d both made. How Bennett and Delaney navigated their third chance, which now included their daughters, was just as important a part of this story as the reconciliation. The authors also did a great job with Bennett’s daughter, Wren, and how she struggled with the new family unit after the excitement of her best friend being her sister wore off.
Definitely don’t miss the bonus epilogue that PR has on their website, because it wraps up the whole story in a lovely little bow with some perspective from Sean.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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