By Sandra Dallas, Special to The Denver Post The Homeplace. By Kevin Wolf. Minotaur Books. Chase Ford was a superstar, a small-town boy who made it good with the Lakers and married a country music singer. It all came crashing down, however, when a knee injury sidelined him and sent him into a world of drugs. Now Chase comes home to Brandon, the eastern Colorado town where he grew up, where he still has friends, a few enemies and plenty of memories.