Texas! Chase: A Novel (Random House Large Print) [Large Print] [Paperback]

Sandra Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2010 | Series: Random House Large Print

In the second book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown’s beloved Texas! trilogy, readers meet another son of the troubled Tyler clan—Chase Tyler, a man hardened by life and desperately trying to outrun the sorrows of his past.
 
Chase Tyler has been the object of Marcie Johns’s desire since grade school. But when it came time to settle down, the handsome, laconic cowboy chose another woman to be his bride. Life was good for Chase—until things took an abrupt and tragic turn. Ravaged by grief, Chase has become a lost and embittered soul, a man without purpose, compassion, or hope.

Then fate intercedes, reuniting Chase and Marcie, who was an unwitting player in Chase’s unfathomable family tragedy. Guilt weighs heavily on Marcie, but she’s also convinced that only the strength of her love can pull Chase back from the abyss. She’s willing to risk everything on a daring plan to rescue his business, save his life, and bring them together at last.


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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This slick contemporary romance focuses on a second member of the Texas Tyler family, the clan first seen in Texas! Lucky . It is a switch on the hoary scenario of boy loves girl, loses girl, wins girl: in these feminist times it is the girl (here a woman with her own real estate agency) who does the loving, the losing and the winning. Marcie Johns has loved Chase Tyler since grade school, but, being the class brain, knew she didn't have a chance with the handsome boy who called her Goosey. Years later, she has been retained by Chase and his wife, Tanya, to find the couple a house. When Tanya is killed in the car Marcie is driving, the bereaved Chase goes on the skids and it is Marcie who sobers him up, gets him back into the failing family oil business, offers a loan, proposes marriage. Marcie's machinations are misunderstood by Chase, adding a modicum of interest to an overly formulaic plot. The novel climaxes with Marcie and Chase in bed, where "the pleasure was immense. Overwhelming. Ecstasy eddied around him in shimmering waves that matched the tempo of her gentle contractions." Apparently Brown intends to immortalize the Tylers in a trilogy, which should please those seeking hard-bound counterparts to the Ewings of Dallas.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Random House Large Print; Lrg edition (January 5, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739377558
• ISBN-13: 978-0739377550
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,108,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sandra Brown is the author of sixty New York Times bestsellers, including RAINWATER (2010), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRUSH (2002), ENVY (2001), THE SWITCH (2000), THE ALIBI (1999), UNSPEAKABLE (1998) and FAT TUESDAY (1997), all of which have jumped onto the Times bestseller list in the number one to five spot.

Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages.

A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, majoring in English. Before embarking on her writing career, she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television, including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program "PM Magazine."

She is much in demand as a speaker and guest television hostess. Her episode on truTV's "Murder by the Book" premiered the series in 2008 and she was one of the launch authors for Investigation Discovery's new series, "Hardcover Mysteries."

In 2009 Brown detoured from her thrillers to write Rainwater, a much acclaimed, powerfully moving story about honor and sacrifice during the Great Depression.

Brown recently was given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. She was named Thriller Master for 2008, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer's Association. Other awards and commendations include the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Heathcliff with a Texas Accent, November 23, 2001

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Wendy Kaplan (Houston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Texas! Chase (Texas! Tyler Family Saga) (Paperback)

Chase Tyler is a man broken by tragedy. The oldest brother of the tight-knit Tyler clan, Chase becomes dark and brooding after the tragic loss of his pregnant wife in a horrible car accident. In fact he is SO dark and brooding that he gives Bronte's Heathcliff a run for the money. Only this time, the setting is Texas, not the English moors. No matter.

Bent on self-destruction, Chase is now a hard-drinking, self-pitying rodeo rider, oblivious of the family who loves him and needs him to help save the Tyler business.

Along comes Marcie, who has known and loved Chase since childhood. It was she who was driving the doomed car; she survived her injuries, but not her guilt or her secret love for Chase. Knowing he will never love her back, but desperate to redeem him, she makes him an offer he could well refuse: She will become his wife in return for the cash to save the family business. Chase eventually accepts, but this is no happily-ever-after tale. In a word: Chase treats Marcie like dirt. And it is hard to read.

Throughout most of the book, the big, brooding cowboy (who of course is gorgeous like all the Tylers) greats his devoted, shy wife with barely concealed contempt. In bed, he uses her for his own pleasure. Out of bed, he ignores her, is rude and curt, and in every way lets her know that she is not the love of his life, and never will be. Of course WE know that he secretly loves her. And it takes a harrowing near-tragedy to make him see that fact.

Has Chase waited too long to realize that he loves Marcie as much as she loves him? Is he, through his own stupidity, about to suffer unspeakable tragedy twice in a lifetime? Read it and find out. You might want to kick him a few times, and Marcie too, for loving such a jerk, but of course in the end....well, no more hints. This is a great book for a long, cold night, written with talent and insight. I recommend it.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to put down, October 3, 1997

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"kuchink" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Texas! Chase (Texas! Tyler Family Saga) (Paperback)

This book is really hard to put down. You have to read it to the last page. Chase had just lost his wife, Tanya (Texas! Lucky) and become a drunk and risk his life by once more joining the rodeo. Marcie Johnson, who had been with Tanya the day Tanya died saw Chase when she was entertaining her clients. Seeing Chase in trouble, she offers lending him money to save his company. Chase who didn't want to own her anything refuse. Marcie offers to marry him, so that her money become his money. Chase agrees. Everything is alright until Chase finds out that the house they had been living in is the house his wife, Tanya, had been thinking of buying. They had a fight and then Chase finds out in a bad way that Marcie is pregrant. Chase is not prepared to get another woman pregnant, and he really freaks out. This book is really good. =>

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Texas Series, June 26, 2000

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Jean O'Malia - See all my reviews

This review is from: Texas! Chase (Texas! Tyler Family Saga) (Paperback)

I read all three of this Texas Series books by Sandra Brown. Of couse I'm an avid Brown fan. Lucky, Chase and Sage were all three GREAT books and I would surely recommend them to anyone who wants great romance along with story lines that keep you reading and wanting to read the entire book all at once. Don't miss Texas Chase, Texas Lucky and Texas Sage, they are tops.