This is the first book in the Silver Creek series. I have never read anything by this author and read this purely off of the description. Lea is a master carpenter and has come to Silver Creek to do carpentry work for ranch owner, Logan Anderson. Logan offers her a room at his ranch while she is doing her work. But accidents keep happening around town including a car accident when Lea first arrives.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I liked the characters. Lea is very shy and cautious and I liked that about her. Logan is the perfect gentleman and I loved how he treated his employees at the ranch as if they were family. The side characters of Maddy and Jody were great strong characters that could stand on their own. My one criticism is that at times it felt liked the story stalled. I felt like I should have further along with the book from where I was with the amount of story we were given. Overall I enjoyed this book and will definitely looking for more by this author. I received an ARC copy of this book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I normal like the books by this author but just could not get into the story line or the characters in this book, and I did not really like the main characters.
Also.way too much description and too much repetition.

Lea leaves her parent’s home in coastal Oregon and heads to Wyoming for a woodworking job on a ranch owned by Logan. A fair story, but had trouble staying connected with the characters. While I agree with the environmental issues the author brings up, it got repeated brought up and skimmed after awhile. Would still recommend but not my favorite by this author.

Lindsey McKenna never fails to draw you into her stories.
A lovely romance with a bit of mystery.
A beautiful heroine with some past demons,
I like that the heroines occupation is a woodworker.
Loved the strong female characters and the men that supports them.

I have read Ms McKenna for decades and can honestly say that Silver Creek Fire is the first book that I didn't connect with. It's worth a read but it's also a book of contradictions. For example, Lea, the heroine is a modern feminist who makes several comments that buy-in to gender stereotypes. Another contradiction is the language used by the H and h who are millennials. I understand that they're in Wyoming which might have some colloquialisms but speaking like this: "Mariposa was the name given it", "busier than a one armed paper hanger" or using the term "busman's holiday" (or in this case, bus woman's) or even just using the word "druthers" is not something that you'd expect from people in that age group. Those are my biggest nits and are examples rather than an exhaustive list; they were a distraction that I found frustrating, though.

But enough on those. Logan, the 30-year old hero, is a widower who hires Lea to do carpentry work at his home in Wyoming. Lea, who lives with her parents in Oregon, is a 29-year old master carpenter and she has always wanted to live in WY. Worth noting is that as a teenager, Lea was physically attacked by three bullies at school. While she wasn't brutalized, she has been unable to fully move forward from that episode and calls herself a "fraidy cat" (again, not a term that many 29-year olds use in my experience.) Lea and Logan share a respect for nature and the land. In addition, Logan lives a life of abundance and is very generous with his employees and townspeople, all of whom respect him. He is the benefactor for several causes in his town and has a very good heart. Speaking of the townspeople, they are colorful and I found the secondary characters interesting.

The conflict in Silver Creek Fire comes in the form of someone who is initially engaged in activities that harm the environment but those actions escalate into harming people. There was no mystery surrounding the bad person's identity but it did add interest. I struggled to feel the connection between Lea and Logan, largely because they just seemed comfortable with each other rather than consumed by one another. There is an intimate scene near the end of the book which is descriptive but I'd classify it as tame. For readers who prefer to have everything left to their imagination, this might not be for you, but I consider the heat quite low. There are some editing issues (misplaced punctuation, mostly) but is overall well-edited.

While not my favorite, I can see where this book will appeal to many. I'll keep reading Ms. McKenna even though this one didn't work for me and I highly recommend her military romances. I am grateful to Kensington Books for the gift of the arc on which this review is based.

I am a Lindsay McKenna fan and was excited to read the first in a new series. Silver Creek Fire is a romantic suspense novel with strong main characters who work their way to each other in spite of past trauma. Read in a weekend because I couldn’t put it down. Thanks to NetGalley the author of Silver Creek Fire and her publisher for letting me read an advanced copy of the novel.

I gave up! 25% of the way in, after starting and stopping several times, I just coudn't do it. The writing was choppy. There was no flow. The dialogue read as if a child wrote it - simple and repetitive. The dialogue felt forced and stilted - there was no connection betweent the characters. They were very one-dimensional, even though I know that was not the authors purpose.

The main character, Lea, was totally unlikeable. She's supposed to be, according to her own words, a strong-willed feminist who stands up for herself and her beliefs. Instead she comes across as sniveling and weak, needy, and completely insecure in herself and her decisions.

The story was boring and again, repetitive. I felt as if I was reading the same paragraphs and conversations over and over.

I am by no means an author and I give lots of credit to those that do write. I have read books by this author in the past and enjoyed them. Unfortunately, as an avid reader who reads across several genres and a multitude of authors, I can honestly say that this one just doesn't cut it.

Thank you #netgalley and #kensingtonbooks #zebra for the eARC.

Oh how I wanted to read this book, and enjoy it but I just couldn’t. My main issue was the amount of description given...sometimes it was 3 pages long, with a sentence of dialogue in between it. It really affected the flow of the book, and it became hard to care about the characters when they were getting Interrupted by pointless descriptions.