Modern romance author Jane Porter skillfully extrapolates the tumultuous emotions of her characters, articulating their thoughts, their conflicting feelings, and the choices available to them. Her contemporary romance Miracle on Chance Avenue, the second book in her Love on Chance Avenue series has the reader celebrating her characters triumphs and lamenting their losses.
The hero and heroine are their own protagonists and antagonists. Bull rider Rory Douglas is realtor Sadie Mann's object of affection from afar. She is a puzzle that Rory strives to unravel, and he is her deepest veiled fantasy.
Day by day the two get to know each other, tightening the bond of love between them while also angering each other with their self-doubts and fears. Nobody gets between them except themselves.
The present is interjected with scenes from their past, both having grown up in Marietta, Montana. In their youth, their paths ran parallel and only crossed when Douglas drives his little sister MacKenna to Sadie's birthday party when the two girls are each 13 years old.
That same night, Douglas returns to the family's home ranch to find his parents brutally murdered along with his baby brother Gordon and baby sister Grace. Tormented by the sight, he closes the ranch and raises his teenage sister MacKenna and surviving brother Quinn on his own, earning a living on rodeo tours, riding bulls while his siblings attend college.
Douglas returns home to convalesce after being injured by a raging bull during the American Extreme Bull Riding Tour. His homecoming at Christmastime is meant to be short until he sees Sadie Mann, recalling her in the audience at several of the tour's shows.
Raised by a single mom, Mann earns a living as a flight attendant until she returns home to look after her mother. Back in Marietta, she takes a part-time job in a real estate office while working on her small business, Montana Rose, making personalized products for the home.
After her mother passes away, Mann becomes aware that she is alone and in her mid-thirties with no child. As her biological clock is ticking, she embarks on the path to have a baby by in vitro fertilization.
Douglas and Mann link together at a moment in their lives when they each answer the other one's call for comfort, stability and a new chapter of adventure in their lives. Porter weaves a well crafted contemporary romance centered around a plot that simply unravels entangling emotions. As grave as the characters plight is, Porter sows in slits of humor and quick wit into the dialogue that makes the story easy to consume.
The reader may not anticipate the story being endearingly enthralling with simply two characters carrying the scenes but Porter manages this task, taking the simple route. The story's charm is its simplicity, showing that wrestling with emotions is all a plot needs to engage the reader.
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