This novel isn’t just Jack and Daisy’s story the entire Wilkins clan has problems to overcome as a slimy character from the first novel rears his ugly head again and they all struggle to figure out what it means to be a family and how much they’re willing to sacrifice for each other.īecause this is the third and final book in a trilogy, I’d recommend reading it after you’ve read the first two. Yet while I was devouring Chasing the Sun, I couldn’t help dreading reaching the end-I’ve spent the past year with the Wilkins family and hated to say goodbye. She arrives to discover that asking them for money won’t be as easy as she thought-particularly since Jack and Elena have recently returned home.Ĭhasing the Sun is a gripping novel that had me blinking back tears and then laughing out loud a few pages later. She has no idea how to contact Jack but remembers enough of their conversations that she’s able to locate his family’s ranch in New Mexico Territory. Two years later she’s in desperate need for money. After a brief affair, he left her for Australia and she soon found out she was pregnant. It was the lowest point in his life, and she thought she could save him. She fell in love with Jack when she was singing in a San Francisco saloon, where he was a frequent customer. The obstacles they overcome are huge, and quite often they’re obstacles that have developed because of the characters’ bad decisions.ĭaisy’s no different. They never start their relationships in typical romance-novel fashion, and there’s not a whiff of cliché in her books. She writes complex characters who are deeply flawed but completely lovable. Instead, Chasing the Sun shows Jack proving himself to Daisy Etheridge…and to the daughter they created back when Jack was still in love with Elena.Īnd this is why I love Kaki Warner’s novels.
I loved Elena and wanted Jack to become a better man because of her. Daisy? Who’s this Daisy woman? I was primed for the novel to focus on Elena’s growing love for Jack as he proved he could be worthy of her. When I read the first chapter (which was included at the end of the second book, Open Country), my heart nearly stopped. In Chasing the Sun we discover he didn’t succeed. At the end of that novel he follows Elena to San Francisco to convince her to fall in love with him. In the first book of the Blood Rose trilogy, Pieces of Sky, Jack Wilkins is a charming, skirt-chasing young man who’s desperate for two things: Elena (a beautiful woman he grew up with) and freedom from his oldest brother Brady’s control. If you love high-stakes conflicts, wry humor, and compelling characters, you’ll love Chasing the Sun.
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