Chase Me If You Can by Heather Frances

It’s raining Weather Romance Books in 2026! Chase Me If You Can by Heather Frances is one of a flurry of new weather romances because it’s great how bad weather can force two people into a confined space (iykyk…)

Cover of Chase Me If You Can which shows a couple kissing in front of a stormy sky

Chase Me If You Can by Heather Frances

Chase Me If You Can is about two rival storm chasers. Sloane is a wedding photographer who longs to break into landscape photography. “Wild” Wes is a legendary storm chaser who is as much known for his colorful personality as his dramatic weather photographs.

Both of them will be storm chasing around the Midwest and Southwest, trying to capture a photo that could win the prestigious Nature Shots magazine contest.

Like the other two weather books, Chase Me If You Can had a workplace rivals trope, with this book’s rivalry being (to me) the most intense of the three.

I loved that Sloane is given a fair amount of psychological backstory, with a mother suffering from learned helplessness and two brothers following right in her footsteps. Sloane is tired of the emotional labor she’s expected to do on behalf of all three and wants to have time to pursue her goals and dreams.

Wes was (for me) sometimes just a tiny bit too alpha for a book that also emphasized the sexism and misogyny in both storm chasing and landscape photography. He called Sloane “darlin’” one too many times and felt like a classic overprotective traditional guy. I

Given Sloane’s family history, I was not shocked when she expressed her preference for a child-free life, and a little surprised when he agreed. I love seeing a HEA that includes kids, but that is not everyone’s HEA!

Like And Now, Back to You and In Stormy Weather, Chase Me if You Can, highlighted the gender imbalance in meteorology, with (quoted by this book) and 80% male and 20% female gender divide, and a tendency for some viewers and colleagues to treat females as “weather girl” eye candy.

I’d describe the romance In Chase Me If You Can as simmering sexual tension that ended up spicy, including several lengthy open door bedroom scenes.

Chase Me If You Can had

A fast-paced plot, with a lot of exciting storm chasing
A main character with a lot of psychological depth
A more traditional romance with an alpha male love interest
Spicy open door romance

Publication date: July 14, 2026 by Atria Books. Thanks so much to them for the advance review copy.

Chase Me If You Can is Perfect For:

Readers who enjoy the drama and angst in old school romance books
Those readers who love a fast paced plot with a lot of action
Readers who appreciate a book that shows that a child-free-by-choice couple is romantic too!

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