This audiobook's release date sits about a month out from when this review was written, and that timing shapes everything else here. Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair is the third entry in Ashley Herring Blake's Clover Lake series, due out on Penguin Audio on September 29, 2026, and on the record I'm working from, no narrator has been credited yet and no reviews have landed. Everything below comes straight from Penguin's own synopsis rather than from anyone who has actually heard it.
Sasha's Documentary Reopens the Alice Bishop Mystery
Sasha Sinclair lost her parents, successful documentary filmmakers, in a car accident three years ago, and she has spent the time since drifting through casual hookups and odd jobs while traveling, unable to live up to the legacy they left behind. What she can't let go of is their unfinished dream project: a documentary about Alice Bishop, a woman who arrived in Blair Mountain, North Carolina, in 1901 and opened a shop called Thornrose Apothecary. Sasha decides to make that film herself.
On the other side of the story is Margot Bishop, a direct descendant of Alice, whose family has spent a century fielding the town's suspicion that Alice was some kind of witch. According to the synopsis, when Alice showed up in Blair Mountain in 1901 and opened Thornrose Apothecary, the town was flummoxed by her, an enigma nobody could quite place, and the nickname Rose Witch has followed the family ever since. The Bishops now run Ghostlight, an occult-themed amusement park that leans into that reputation rather than fighting it, but the family businesses, including Thornrose itself, aren't doing well.
When Margot's mother proposes a documentary about the family history as a fix for the flagging business, Margot resists, not wanting a hundred years of curated legacy pried open on camera, and finds herself assigned as Sasha's point person anyway. That setup puts a grieving, drifting filmmaker's daughter directly across the table from a woman actively trying to protect her family from exactly the kind of exposure Sasha is there to create, which is a sharper starting conflict than a lot of small-town romance premises manage.
A Working Relationship Melts Into Something Else
Sasha and Margot's dual investigation into the real story of Alice Bishop and the haunted Thornrose Woods is the pitch, alongside a working relationship that shifts from professional friction into something else. The synopsis describes it as the ice slowly melting into a heart-fluttering rollercoaster neither of them is sure she wants to get off, which puts the enemies-to-lovers energy front and center alongside the family-history mystery.
Ashley Herring Blake is credited in the synopsis itself as a USA Today bestselling author, and this is the third book set in the Clover Lake world, so listeners already invested in that series get another entry in a familiar small town. What I can't tell you, without any reviews on this record yet, is how this specific installment lands compared to the ones before it. That verdict simply isn't available at the time of writing.
Twelve hours is the runtime, a fairly standard length for this kind of contemporary romance, long enough to let both threads, the documentary investigation into Alice Bishop and the relationship between Sasha and Margot, develop at something other than a rushed pace. Nothing in the synopsis suggests a dual point-of-view structure explicitly, but the way it is written, alternating fairly evenly between what Sasha wants and what Margot is protecting, reads like a book built for two perspectives rather than one.
Still No Narrator, Still No Written Reviews
Genuinely empty, not just thin, is how the rating data on this listing reads: no displayed rating, no rating count, and no written reviews at all. That is different from a book with a handful of mixed reviews, and it means every claim in this piece has to come from the synopsis itself rather than from anyone's actual listening experience.
No narrator is credited on this record either, which matters more than usual for a romance built around two women whose chemistry is supposed to carry the back half of the book. Casting can make or break exactly that kind of slow-burn dynamic, and nothing here yet gives a listener anything to judge it by. Anyone deciding whether to buy this one ahead of release is doing so on the strength of the premise and the author's track record alone.
Because the release date falls a month past this review, treat everything here as a preview rather than a verdict. The plot mechanics, an amusement park built on a family's supposed witchcraft, a documentary that could either heal or fracture that family further, and two women pushed together against their own instincts, are all promising on paper. Whether the finished audiobook delivers on them is a separate question this record simply cannot answer yet.
Established Clover Lake Fans Should Feel Confident
Established Clover Lake readers who want the next entry, and listeners drawn to a small-town, family-legacy romance with an occult-tinged backdrop and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers arc, are the obvious audience here. Skip it for now, or at least wait a little, if you'd rather see a narrator announced and a few reviews in before committing to twelve hours of listening time.
If you do decide to preorder on the strength of the premise alone, go in knowing you are betting on Ashley Herring Blake's track record and this specific setup rather than on any confirmed performance, since neither the cast nor the audience response exists yet on the record this review is drawn from.
Before You Listen
When does the Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair audiobook release?
It is scheduled to release on September 29, 2026, through Penguin Audio, as the third book in Ashley Herring Blake's Clover Lake series, following Sasha Sinclair's attempt to complete her late parents' unfinished documentary project about the Bishop family in Blair Mountain.
Has a narrator been announced for the Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair audiobook yet?
Not on the record used for this review. No narrator credit and no listener reviews were available at the time of writing, so this piece is built entirely from Penguin Audio's own synopsis rather than any actual listening experience with the finished audio.
What is the connection between Sasha's parents and the Bishop family in this story?
Sasha's late parents were documentary filmmakers who dreamed of making a film about Alice Bishop, the woman behind Blair Mountain's century-long Rose Witch legend. Sasha takes up that unfinished project herself after their deaths in a car accident three years earlier.
