When 34-year-old Chloe Morgan appears on Hank Oliver's doorstep in Cameron, Arizona, she arrives with more than her old white shepherd dog Hannah and a rambunctious young horse in tow. Chloe is pregnant with Hank's child, and she's as tough-talking and vulnerable, skittish, fearful, and tender as when we saw her in Jo-Ann Mapson's acclaimed first novel Hank & Chloe.aLoving Chloe takes up where the earlier novel leaves off. As Chloe and Hank settle somewhat uneasily into domesticity in Grandmother Oliver's cabin, a local Navajo legend named Junior Whitebear, an artist whose work has been acclaimed by the Eastern commercial establisment, returns home to collect his father's ashes and renew his spirit after years spent in the art world fast lane. When Junior arrives at the reservation, he doesn't expect to find a son he fathered unwittingly nine years ago with Corrine Johnson; nor is he looking to fall in love with newcomer Chloe Morgan and deliver her baby girl. Both events change his life forever, not to mention the lives of those around him. A passionate love story, Loving Chloe explores the emotional complexity of a love triangle with sympathy, humor, and compassion for all three characters.aSexual longing, the bonds of family, and nagging questions of identity with far-reaching consequences make Loving Chloe a rich and rewarding work of fiction. Set against the spectacular beauty of the American southwest, Jo-Ann Mapson's new novel is the page-turning sequel to Hank and Chloe that readers have been eagerly awaiting.
