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Texas! Chase

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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.

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. =>

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.

I am a Sandra Brown fan. Mirror Image and Witness are among my favorite books of all times and I also read French Silk and Sunset embrace which I liked a lot. But I was very disappointed with this book. Although most people have problems liking Chase, I found myself liking him. The man lost the wife he adored in a car crash and was devastated. He accepted Marcie's marriage proposal which was almost a blackmail ("I'll give you the money to save your company from ruin IF you marry me") but never lied to her about his feelings. And Marcie made that offer knowing Chase was still grieving his wife. But she became pushy in her eagerness to make Chase act like a normal, loving husband.

Later it got even worse. The heroine turned out to be obsessed, belonging more to a shrink's couch than Chase's bedroom. To start with, she was in love with him since kindengarden, continued to be in love with him while he was happily married with another woman and still in love with him after his wife died and he left town for god knows where. And there's more...

She was so in love with him, that when she saw a house she felt was perfect for Chase (Marcie's job is a real estate agent), she showed it to his wife so that they would buy it and Chase would live there. After Tanya's tragic death, Marcie (who had met Chase only twice since finishing highschool), bought the house without revealing that she was the buyer. On top of that, she furnished it IN THE STYLE AND COLORS THAT SHE KNEW CHASE LIKED, because she decided at that time that she would become Chase's wife and live with him in that house (this is all revealed in page 262, I am not imagining this). What woman in her right mind would buy and furnish a house, not according to her taste but to a man's she has never been involved with AND who has never, for a period of over 20 years, never showed any romantic interest for her? This is the very definition of obsessive, psycotic behavior. And she thought of it as her "gift" to Chase, a perfect house for him (how she could know his tastes so well since they'd never been that close is another question) with a perfect wife (that would be herself) to go along, so that Chase can live happily ever after (oh yes, according to Marcie this is all very unselfit sh, she only wanted to make Chase happy and she just "happened" to be the right person for him).

I'm sorry but I was feeling like I was reading a lighter version of Stephen King's MISERY with Marcie as Kathy Bates, rather than a romance novel. There is a stalker in this book after Marcie and it was the only reason I leafed through the rest of the book to find out who he is. Marcie is the worst heroine I have ever read about and dragged the whole story to the bottom with her.

I love this one. When I reread my Texas!Trilogy this is the only one I linger on. I read it completely. I guess I am in love with Chase Tyler. I love him. He is a jerk of course but a loveable jerk. I love Marcie too. She and I share so many traits. She didn't desire just any husband like another reviewer says but she desires the man of her dreams. The only man she ever loved. I laughed and cried reading this book, I loved the characters and the plot. I loved the fighting and the making up. I love Sandra Brown. Nuf said.

i have just started reading this summer sitting by the pool or when it rained anytime really this book was good be sure to read lucky and sage too....i love how this story started and ended in the last book...great read....i got all 3 books from the library and want to buy it in one book if i could find it i would recommed it and would read it again

I would have given this book a 5 because I love unrequited love stories, but the hero was too much of an ass. Marcie put up way too much with his crap. After the way he treated her on their wedding night she should have dumped him. I don't know why she was so in love with him. He was mean to her from the start and he got worse during their marriage. What irritated me about Marcie was how desperate she was for Chase. She pursued him too much. I think it would have been nice if the author at some point made Chase pursue her. Even in the end I didn't feel like Chase loved Marcie the way he loved his dead wife. I know my review seems a bit on the negative side but I truly did like this book. I'm a huge fan of unrequited love. It always makes me feel for the person who loves so deeply without ever having that love return. I felt for Marcie because she loved Chase so much and for so long and having to watch him be so happily married and in love with his wife. I felt her pain even though I've never experienced unrequited love personally. It was nice to see that she got her man in the end. I only wish the author made Chase realize he loved her a little sooner than a couple of pages before the end. With all that said it was a good book.

Of all Sandra Brown's books, I enjoyed Texas! Chase the most. Men like Chase are hard to find!

Having read Texas! Lucky and enjoyed it I was excited to read Texas! Chase. It was very thrilling and since I knew the backstory it was very easy to follow. Chase and Marcie make one of the most tormented and hot couples of I've ever read about. The ending was great and I'm looking foward to finishing the trilogy with Texas! Sage. I'm sure it will be as good as the first two.

IMO, this is the best of the three books in the series. By the end of Lucky, we know Chase doesn't live happily ever after with his wife. In a tragic turn of events, a car crash took the lives of his beloved wife and unborn child in a matter of seconds.
Ravaged by grief, Chase turns to drinking and his old pasttime, bullriding. No one has seen him in months, no one knows where he is until the only person in the world who understands his grief runs into him by sheer accident...Marcie Johns, the woman driving the car the night his wife was killed.
Marcie has been racked with guilt since that fateful night two years ago. Driving her newfound friend and customer to a house showing, realtor and old family friend Marcie, is hit by a car who runs a redlight. Nearly dying herself, she hasn't seen nor heard from Chase Tyler since that night, but at a Fort Worth bullriding competition, she is shocked to see him drunk and riding.
Hateful and angry and lost, Chase resents her help and pity. Marcie makes it her mission to save him before he ends up killing himself. What she doesn't expect is for old feelings to surface. Feelings of love she's had for Chase since she was in K-5.
Chase in turn is shocked to realize he wants Marcie and needs her. But can he do this? Can he fall for the woman who was in the very car with his wife when she died? Is he willing to take that chance to love again?
Things become even foggier when Marcie offers Chase a chance at saving his company from financial ruin with a tempting proposition.
Can the bookworm seduce the broken and beaten cowboy?
I loved this touching story. This proves once again that love does indeed heal all wounds, both deep and small.

Tracy Talley~@