From the New
York Times bestselling author of the Coulter and Harrigan Family novels comes a
brand-new contemporary romance series about first love, second chances, and
hope reborn…

After years of living in fear of her husband, Amanda Banning has left him and
moved to Mystic Creek, Oregon, for a fresh start. But she’s having a tough time
providing for herself and her six-year-old daughter. Writing her secret
yearnings on slips of paper and sending them into the wind helps her cling to
the hope that things will get better…and that she can find happiness again.

Jeb Sterling has no idea that the handwritten messages he finds scattered
across his land are the first hints that his life is about to change. Nor does
he understand why he feels so compelled to help Amanda Banning and her daughter
when a cold snap leaves them temporarily homeless. Maybe he’s inspired by
Amanda’s courage or perhaps by her beautiful brown eyes. Either way, the man
who once renounced love suddenly finds himself willing to do anything for the
pair. Amanda seems to have given up on her dreams, but Jeb refuses to quit
until he makes her every wish come true…

I’ve read
several reviews over the Mystic Creek series, and I mostly read only very
positive things about it. And since I love books about small towns, and life
there, ‘Silver Thaw’ sounded like a book for me. When I saw ‘Silver Thaw’ on
Audible, I decided listening this book on Audio would be perfect.

In ‘Silver
Thaw’ we meet Amanda Banning and her young daughter Chloe. Amanda is trying to
get by every single day. She has almost no money, only an old, cold and small
home and she is on the run from her horrible husband. Amanda knows if her
husband ever finds her, she and her daughter are in great danger.

Jeb
Sterling has been living in Mystic Creek all his life. He has his own house,
has livestock and money isn’t a problem. For weeks Jeb is finding little
written notes by a woman in danger and he is more than intrigued by them. When
a cold front hits Mystic Creek Jeb and other town members visit all houses to
look if everybody is save. Soon Jeb finds Amanda and Chloe and they are
definitely in need of help. And before Jeb’s knows it he finds himself being
hooked by both woman and he desperate to help them. But Amanda doesn’t know if
she can ever trust another man again.

From the
very beginning I enjoyed listening to ‘Silver Thaw’. The narrator Kate Turnbull
has a nice voice to listen to and Mystic Creek sounds like a perfect small
town. Especially in the beginning I found Kate’s voice for the little girl
Chloe very annoying, but I do find most young girls voices annoying so it
seemed to fit. And half way through the book I didn’t notice as much anymore. 

‘Silver
Thaw’ was definitely a fun audiobook to listen too. But I did have a view
problems with this book. For one it’s a very predictable story, which isn’t
such a problem since most romance stories can be a little predictable. But some
more unpredictability would have been nice. 

The other
thing that bothered me was Jep. His character was just a little unbelievable if
you ask me. For example how did he get so rich? From the very first moment Jep
pays a lot of money for Amanda and Chloe. And I do get that he wanted to take
care of them, but he didn’t even know them for more than a day and he was
giving out hundreds of dollars. I didn’t believe it! 

And my
last problem with this book was the whole ‘God’ bit. I’m not religious at all
but I don’t mind reading a book about people who do. So I didn’t mind reading
about the praying for dinner, and the god’s plan bit. But the whole part in the
end of the story just made me angry. I can’t really explain it because I would
spoil the story, but I got very frustrated about it. Without spoiling
anything.. Having an abusive husband is bad enough, but suddenly wishing him
the best is just wrong in my eyes. (And you really have to read this book to
get what I’m saying!)

For the
most part this was a nice book, but not really for me.

Adeline
Catherine was born and raised in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA. She always yearned
to be a writer like her mother. The morning that one of her professors asked if
she could use samples of Catherine’s creative writing on an overhead projector
to teach was a dream come true. In 1988, she sold her first book to Harlequin
Intrigue and went on to write three more before she tried her hand at a
single-title historical romance. Nine books later, she did her first
single-title contemporary.

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