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Seventeen-year-old Asher Sullivan has spent his entire life chasing the perfect eight seconds.
A champion bareback bronc rider from Fort Worth, Texas, Asher has already earned a reputation as one of the state's brightest young rodeo stars. With his senior year just around the corner and a dream of joining the rodeo team at East Texas A&M University, the future has never looked brighter.
Then one drive changes everything.
Thrown from his truck in a devastating crash, Asher suffers a spinal cord injury that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down. Overnight, the arena that once felt like home is replaced by hospital rooms, surgeries, and a wheelchair he refuses to touch.
As anger pushes away the people who love him most-his parents, Nick and Ellie, his ten-year-old twin sisters, Ciara and Cora, his best friends, Cooper and Koa, and his barrel-racing girlfriend, Ebony-Asher becomes convinced that his life as a cowboy is over.
But Ebony isn't ready to let him give up.
When she introduces Asher to the story of champion barrel racer Amberley Snyder, a woman who refused to let the same injury end her rodeo career, a single email sets in motion an unexpected visit that could change everything.
Because sometimes the hardest ride isn't staying on for eight seconds.
Sometimes it's finding the courage to climb back into the saddle when your whole world has been turned upside down.
Heartfelt, inspiring, and unforgettable, Chasing Eight Seconds is a powerful story about family, first love, resilience, and discovering that the greatest victories aren't always won in the arena.