Review: A heartbreaker
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
Taking Chances  is by Tara Manderino.  This is a really good romance.  She develops her main characters well and the setting is vivid.  The  plot is a little weak in spots but makes up for it later.Abie Holloway works for Mitchell’s Promotions which is one of the top five corporate event planning agencies.  Abie is in the running for vice –president and is  a gung ho PR person.  She doesn’t take no for an answer.  She is given the task of getting singer Tyler Davidson to perform live for a small audience for the Centennial Committee.  She is egged on by her assistant Natalie who doesn’t know anything about country music.  Abie sets out to talk to Tyler’s manager but can’t get a return call from either man.  She goes to Paul’s office and waits until he sees her.  He tells her that Tyler will not take a job singing for a small audience.  Abie is beginning to get a picture of Tyler who will only take large concert jobs which pay a lot of money.  She finds out he has a ranch nearby and heads out there to confront him.  Little does she know what she is about to get into.Tyler Davidson runs a ranch for emotionally and physically abused children.  He takes a group every two weeks and tries to teach them they are important and to not give up. He teaches them about God being there for them as well.  He keeps this side of him private and thinks it is no one’s business but his.  However, his concerts pay the bills.  He intends to expand to other areas of the country as there are many kids who need help, just like he did.  He really understands them because he was there.  He can’t get across to Abie that he will not do the small performance.  He fails to tell her that he is afraid of small audiences and they send him back to his childhood and his mother making him play and sing for money.  He meets Abie and just as they seem to be becoming friends, she makes him mad and he signs the contract in anger.  He took her word that it was a boilerplate contract.Neither Tyler nor Abie knew that the contract he signed had an addition put in it that Abie was not aware of.  If Tyler fails to show up for his performance for the Centennial Committee, he forfeits his ranch.  Who put the addition into the contract and why?  Will Tyler show up for the performance?