Giving Chase (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Maggie Wright: Margaret Elizabeth Wright. A strawberry blond, twenty-six year old history teacher in Petal.
• Shane Chase: The oldest Chase brother; he is the Sheriff of Petal.
• Kyle Chase: Kyle Maurice Chase: One of the Chase brothers who likes Maggie and calls her 'Red.'
• Alex Parsons: A librarian obsessed with Maggie.
• Dee: Maggie's friend. Arthur Jones is her boyfriend.
• Liv: Olivia Davis. Maggie's friend and the mayor's secretary. She often helps give Maggie a makeover.
• Sam: Maggie's ex-boyfriend.
• Arthur Jones: Dee's boyfriend.
• Matt Chase: One of the Chase brothers.
• Marc Chase: One of the Chase brothers.
• Polly Chase: Polly Jean Chase, previously Chandler. Chase matriarch and in charge of the historical society.
• Edward Chase: Polly's husband and an attorney. They've been married thirty-five years.
• Jane Marie Campbell: Maggie's older sister, she is tall, blond, and married with two kids and as a superiority complex from her mother.
• Cecelia Wright: Previously Bradshaw and beauty queen. Maggie's mother who gives her an inferiority complex.
• Tom Wright: Maggie's father from a family of the largest orchards in the county.
• Kendra Fosse: Random date of Shane's who dislikes Maggie.
• Charles: An adviser Maggie had in graduate school. He had sex with her sister.
• Sandra: Shane's ex-fiancee who broke his heart and trust by sleeping with his best friend.
• Lyndsay Cole: A mean girl who dislikes Maggie.
• Larry Dickerson: Alex Parsons's lawyer.
• Ellis Mason: Principal of Petal Senior High where Maggie works.

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• “Ah, but not for clothes, not for skirts or shoes. For lingerie. And that, my love, is a whole different story. Any time you want to shop for silky underwear, I'll gladly accompany you.”

  Kyle Chase

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• Giving Chase Taking Chase

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• Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

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• Taking Chase Chased Making Chase

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• Maggie, my heart never truly beat until the first time I touched your lips with my own. You are my everything. The air I breathe, the blood in my veins. You are my heart and my soul and I love you.

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• Kyle realized he was no longer falling in love with Maggie, he was already there. She owned his heart.

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• “Dude, you say the best stuff. You’re so getting lucky.”

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• He’d always thought having a relationship would be another person taking up his life, taking away space from him. Instead she added to his life, made it bigger, brighter.

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• “Let me in, just a little bit. Get to know me. Let me know you. Come on, let me court you, woo you. I’ve never wooed before, it should be fun.” “I’ve never been wooed.” “See? We’ll both learn something. Let the woo begin.”

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• Petal, Georgia
• The Pumphouse: A bar and billiards hall. Maggie meets her friends Liv and Dee every Friday night there.
• El Cid: A restaurant in Petal. Maggie has a date with Alex there.
• Honey Bear Bakery: A coffee shop in Petal. Maggie has coffee with Shane there.
• The Oak Room: A restaurant in Petal. Maggie has a date with Kyle there.
• Honky Tonk: A dance hall in Petal.
• The Grange

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Followed by Taking Chase.

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1. Lauren Dane (Author)

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sexual content

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure
• Books › Romance › Romantic Suspense

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• Lauren Dane: authors website