Chase by Barbara DunlopMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Finally, all caught up!
The novel opens as Chase Garrett finds his best friend and pregnant fiancee in bed together and discovers that he isn't the father. Heart-broken and mad at both of them, especially since he had sold his farm and land in order to buy a place near his fiancee's family.
When he returns to the American Extreme Bull Riders' (AEBR) Tour he is astonished when a young boy rushes up to him in the crowd calling him Daddy, but this isn't as a result of a one-night stand, no this is a case of mistaken identity. The little boy, Riley, is the son of another bull-rider Chase Barrett and the two men look uncannily similar. Chase Barrett was killed by a bull a few months back but three year old Riley doesn't understand the difference between death and being on tour with the AEBR. Any attempts to persuade Riley that Chase isn't his Daddy fall on deaf ears.
Maddy, Riley's mother, got pregnant when she was 18 years old. Since her husband died she has been struggling to bring up Riley on her own; she has four older brothers but they are desperately trying to raise enough money to buy back their family's land (which is a whole other story that I would like to read - if anyone know what series this is please let me know).
Chase and Maddy feel a visceral attraction to each other, but is it because he looks like her dead husband? Or is it because Chase desperately wanted a child?
Aside from the far-fetched premise that there could be two bull-riders with almost the same name that look practically identical and NO-ONE noticed until Riley, this was a sweet, enjoyable romance. There was less about bull-riding than some of the other books but the romance was believable, although I wasn't sure I 100% bought into Chase's angst.
This series just hits all the right buttons for me.
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