Chasing Serenity
A River Rain Novel
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4.2 • 339 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Ashley brings a new novel in her River Rain series…
From a very young age, Chloe Pierce was trained to look after the ones she loved.
And she was trained by the best.
But when the man who looked after her was no longer there, Chloe is cast adrift—just as the very foundation of her life crumbled to pieces.
Then she runs into tall, lanky, unpretentious Judge Oakley, her exact opposite. She shops. He hikes. She drinks pink ladies. He drinks beer. She’s a city girl. He’s a mountain guy.
Obviously, this means they have a blowout fight upon meeting. Their second encounter doesn’t go a lot better.
Judge is loving the challenge. Chloe is everything he doesn’t want in a woman, but he can’t stop finding ways to spend time with her. He knows she’s dealing with loss and change.
He just doesn’t know how deep that goes. Or how ingrained it is for Chloe to care for those who have a place in her heart, how hard it will be to trust anyone to look after her…
And how much harder it is when it’s his turn.
Customer Reviews
See AllThe Kristen Ashley I loved is back!!!
Totally worth the time and money. Fully developed characters and relationships before the sex. Interesting secondary characters. All the fashion, interior decorating, and food, plus local color you can want. Loved the little peaks at the Burg and Colorado books. I think Rhys is already my favorite character.
Not KA of old
Everything is political! It seems to be unavoidable these days but I would have thought a KA romance novel would be void of politics. Oh how wrong I was! The virtual signaling and self-righteous preaching of WOKE ideology was thematic throughout the book. She managed to throw in, transgenderism, rich white privilege, overweight "body-positivity", environmental activism, global warming, and DEI. It was all superfluous, just thrown in there for her to preach her personal political beliefs.. It added nothing to the story. I was hoping for a KA of old-style book but this was not it. She also does not write 20 something characters well. They sound like they are 40 yrs old. It just does not work. If Chloe was 35 I think her character would feel more authentic. This was a miss for me and time to move to another author.
Chasing Serenity
Not as good as After the Climb. Chloe’s a handful. Genny and Bowie’s story’s a lot deeper of course. But it has its place.