Chasing Kate
Book Details
Author(s)Kelly Byrne
PublisherKelly Byrne
ISBN / ASINB006U1F9IG
ISBN-13978B006U1F9I6
Sales Rank450,747
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
“I quite literally could not put this book down...Chasing Kate could well be the best book I've read in a very long time.†Diane Nelson, author of The Conference
Twenty-eight-year-old Kate Denai is single, alone in a new city, and facing rock bottom again. But her sense of humor is still intact. Mostly. In her current, jilted state she’s not "child-friendly", so when she finds a tiny stowaway, five-year-old Sadie Beck, in the back of her Jeep on Halloween night, she’s in no mood to play.
Finally, after much cajoling and negotiating with the child to find out where she lives, Kate returns Sadie to a stepfather who clearly lacks the parenting gene. That night, in a revenge-gone-horribly-wrong operation, she inadvertently burns her new ex-boyfriend’s garage down. With no one to lean on, she flees the authorities in Salt Lake City and heads for her sister’s in Portland.
Halfway there, she discovers Sadie in her Jeep again.
This time she learns why the clever little girl won’t leave her alone.
Sadie’s grief at the recent loss of her mother seizes Kate and painfully reminds her of the destruction that followed when her family was violently interrupted by her own mother’s death years before. Sadie wants Kate to take care of her, but Kate is in no way prepared for this kind of crazy unexpected motherhood.
Against her will, and in the process of trying to talk herself out of it, Kate begins to feel a deep connection with Sadie. And when Sadie reveals she’s in jeopardy if Kate brings her back to her stepfather in Salt Lake City, Kate vows to protect her innocence at any cost. Undaunted by the likely repercussions of this decision, Kate adds kidnapping to her growing laundry list of recent transgressions. As with everything else in her life, Murphy’s Law rules this choice too. Kidnapping, fleeing the authorities, and pretending to be mother to a child who is not hers proves to be more than she can handle with grace. But, because of their uncanny spiritual bond (which makes Kate wonder, very seriously at times, if Sadie’s a reincarnation of her mom) she discovers those amazing, beautiful, precious moments between a mother and daughter, which only come through unconditional love.
With grit, wit, and resilience against the odds, which keep stacking up against her, Kate finds salvation in Sadie’s presence in her life. And when their frantic journey across several state lines exhausts her limited options, she’s forced to return to the one place she never imagined she would go: home.
At once hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, Chasing Kate is a raucous voyage of self-transformation, fueled by an original and unconventional love story, wending down the road to redemption.
Twenty-eight-year-old Kate Denai is single, alone in a new city, and facing rock bottom again. But her sense of humor is still intact. Mostly. In her current, jilted state she’s not "child-friendly", so when she finds a tiny stowaway, five-year-old Sadie Beck, in the back of her Jeep on Halloween night, she’s in no mood to play.
Finally, after much cajoling and negotiating with the child to find out where she lives, Kate returns Sadie to a stepfather who clearly lacks the parenting gene. That night, in a revenge-gone-horribly-wrong operation, she inadvertently burns her new ex-boyfriend’s garage down. With no one to lean on, she flees the authorities in Salt Lake City and heads for her sister’s in Portland.
Halfway there, she discovers Sadie in her Jeep again.
This time she learns why the clever little girl won’t leave her alone.
Sadie’s grief at the recent loss of her mother seizes Kate and painfully reminds her of the destruction that followed when her family was violently interrupted by her own mother’s death years before. Sadie wants Kate to take care of her, but Kate is in no way prepared for this kind of crazy unexpected motherhood.
Against her will, and in the process of trying to talk herself out of it, Kate begins to feel a deep connection with Sadie. And when Sadie reveals she’s in jeopardy if Kate brings her back to her stepfather in Salt Lake City, Kate vows to protect her innocence at any cost. Undaunted by the likely repercussions of this decision, Kate adds kidnapping to her growing laundry list of recent transgressions. As with everything else in her life, Murphy’s Law rules this choice too. Kidnapping, fleeing the authorities, and pretending to be mother to a child who is not hers proves to be more than she can handle with grace. But, because of their uncanny spiritual bond (which makes Kate wonder, very seriously at times, if Sadie’s a reincarnation of her mom) she discovers those amazing, beautiful, precious moments between a mother and daughter, which only come through unconditional love.
With grit, wit, and resilience against the odds, which keep stacking up against her, Kate finds salvation in Sadie’s presence in her life. And when their frantic journey across several state lines exhausts her limited options, she’s forced to return to the one place she never imagined she would go: home.
At once hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, Chasing Kate is a raucous voyage of self-transformation, fueled by an original and unconventional love story, wending down the road to redemption.
