{"id":59459,"date":"2021-05-26T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=59459"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:07:45","slug":"release-chasing-romeo-by-sarah-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=59459","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour & Excerpt: Chasing Romeo by Sarah Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chasing Romeo, an all-new heartwarming opposites-attract standalone romantic comedy from author Sarah Ready is available now!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Blurb<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A laugh out loud, soul mate chasing rom-com romp, Sarah Ready\u2019s Chasing Romeo is a perfect feel-good novel about finding love where you least expect it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chloe Daniels is a starry-eyed romantic who believes in true love, soul mates and happily ever afters. So when a psychic predicts the identity of her soul mate Chloe will do anything to find him.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a tiny problem.<\/p>\n

Chloe\u2019s soul mate is 1 of 7 men, spread across the U.S. and she has only one week to reach him.<\/p>\n

Out of desperation she hires Nick O\u2019Shea, a cynical private investigator who thinks soul mates, love and happily ever afters are a load of crap.<\/p>\n

Chloe and Nick have nothing in common. She wants her soul mate. He wants to get paid.<\/p>\n

But on their crazy, true love chasing road trip across the U.S. Nick starts to wonder if maybe he was wrong about love, and Chloe starts to wonder if she was wrong about the identity of her Romeo.<\/p>\n

Soon, Chloe will have to choose between her soul mate and the man she hired to find him.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Excerpt<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just asking,\u201d I say, \u201care you sure you want to bet your future on a myth?\u201d<\/p>\n

Because, to be honest, something inside me wishes she\u2019d get up and say, screw you, fate, I\u2019m taking my future in my own hands.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWould I bet my future?\u201d she asks.<\/p>\n

I nod and lean forward to hear her answer.<\/p>\n

Slowly, she says, \u201cI\u2019d bet everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her words ring in my ears. She\u2019s serious. She\u2019ll do anything to get with this random guy she hasn\u2019t seen in nearly twenty years. It\u2019s like a cosmic joke, except I\u2019m not laughing. I guess I shouldn\u2019t have expected anything less.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a myth,\u201d I say. \u201cIt\u2019s not real.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is,\u201d she says. She points her finger at me and jabs me in the chest. \u201cAnd I\u2019m going to prove it to you.\u201d Her hand rests over my heart. We both look down at her touching me. She yanks it back and wipes her hand on her napkin.<\/p>\n

No man likes to see a woman wipe herself off after touching him. I scowl and then take her unspoken challenge. \u201cMore likely, by the end of this week, I\u2019ll prove that soul mates don\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGood luck, you have hundreds of Aunt Erma\u2019s successes against you.\u201d<\/p>\n

No worries, I stand by my belief that the whole town of Romeo is suffering from romantic delusions. Hey, the tourism dollars depend on it.<\/p>\n

Also, I\u2019d like to push a little bit of reality into this situation and throw out the idea that this guy might not be decent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could be a rapist,\u201d I say. That gets her attention. Her head snaps up and she glares at me.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr a Lothario,\u201d she says. Take that, her eyes say. She bares her teeth at me in a semblance of a grin and I smile back. Game on.<\/p>\n

The minstrel who had wandered close again hightails it to the other side of the restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could be a drug dealer,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr a pharmacist,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could be an alcoholic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA vintner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s unemployed,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndependently wealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looks like a frog.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a prince,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s boring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStrong and silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

I glare at her and she glares back, a smile curving on her lips.<\/p>\n

\u201cBad in bed,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n

\u201cA sex god.\u201d She bites at her lower lip and I have the urge to take it in my mouth and show her a decade of pent-up wanting. I yank my thoughts from her lips and drop my ace in the hole.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe could be an ax murderer,\u201d I say. Take that and chew on it.<\/p>\n

She laughs, throaty and low, and her eyes light up. The candlelight sparks off her\u00a0glowing skin.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr,\u201d she says, \u201che\u2019s a lumberjack. Mmmm. Sexy ax. I\u2019ll hold the handle. Rawr.\u201d<\/p>\n

She claws her hand and scratches at the air.<\/p>\n

I shake my head. \u201cYou got it.\u201d I hold up my goblet of mead for a toast. \u201cTo Matt Smith. Chloe\u2019s lumberjack soul mate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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About Sarah Ready<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Author Sarah Ready writes contemporary romance and romantic comedy. Her books have been described as \u201ceuphoric\u201d, \u201cheartwarming\u201d and \u201claugh out loud\u201d. Her debut novel The Fall in Love Checklist was hailed as \u201cthe unicorn read of 2020\u201d. She loves to write fast-paced, emotionally compelling romances about quirky, smart women and the\u00a0men who love them.<\/p>\n

Before writing romance full-time Sarah had lots of fun teaching at an Ivy League. Then she realized she could have even more fun writing romance. Her favorite things after writing are adventuring and travel. You\u2019ll frequently find her using her degree at a dino dig site, crawling into a cave, snorkeling, or on horseback riding through the jungle \u2013 all fodder for her next book. She\u2019s lived in Scotland, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland and NYC. She currently lives in the Caribbean with her water-obsessed pup and her\u00a0awesome family.<\/p>\n

You can visit her online at www.sarahready.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Connect with Sarah:<\/p>\n

Amazon\u00a0<\/a> |\u00a0 Goodreads\u00a0<\/a> |\u00a0 Bookbub\u00a0<\/a> |\u00a0 Website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay up to date with all the things and subscribe to Sarah\u2019s mailing list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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