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 you know how bad weather can force two people into a confined space.
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. Wes is a legendary storm chaser who is known for his dramatic weather photographs. Both of them will be storm chasing around the Midwest and Southwest, trying to get the photo that could win the prestigious Nature Shots magazine contest.
Chase Me If You Can had a workplace rivals trope, with this being (to me) the most intense of the three. 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.
Wes was (for me) a 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 was not shocked when Sloane expressed her preference for a child-free life, but I was a little surprised when he agreed. To me, he seemed the most traditional of the three guys.
Like And Now, Back to You and Chase Me if You Can, In Stormy Weather 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 girls” who are just there as eye candy.
I’d describe the romance as simmering sexual tension that ended up spicy, including several lengthy open door bedroom scenes.
Chase Me If You Can had
- A faster 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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