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Creek Canyon, Book 2

By: Catherine Bybee

Narrated by: Tara Sands

A brave woman’s flight from the past leads her toward new love in a novel about courage, hope, and second chances by Catherine Bybee, New York Times bestselling author of My Way to You.

After Erin Fleming escapes from her controlling and abusive ex, she finds refuge in the heart of Santa Clarita, California. Eager to start over, she has a new name, a new look, and a new career. Settled into a private guesthouse, Erin can breathe free. Far from the shadows she’s outrun, Erin is finally learning to live for herself. Her new unexpected friendship with her landlord starts to crack open the armor Erin’s enclosed herself in. But it’s Matt who speeds up the pace of Erin’s heart and makes her wish for things she believes she can never have.

Matt Hudson, a firefighter in one of California’s wildfire epicenters, has a passion for danger. He lives for the adrenaline rush his profession awards him. But his protective instincts take over once Matt meets Erin. So does an attraction he can’t deny. Above all else, he’s determined to prove to Erin that she can trust him. As the sparks between them ignite, so does a real-world danger. Erin’s past is not letting go. It’s just in hiding.

Before Erin’s ex finds her, she and Matt have to find him. And finally put an end to everything that’s becoming a threat to their love, and to Erin’s life.

©2020 Catherine Bybee. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Love this series

I love how she takes us through the growth and strength of women who have known such tragedy.

Great Story Not great Narration

This story was great and it would have been so much better with a different narrator for the men. It was a little hard to listen to at times! The story though was really good and had me tearing up at times. I loved Matt he was such a good guy!

Another strong adventure by Bybee

Bybee continued with her book 1 characters in this Creek Canyon series introducing Erin Fleming's reason for being reclusive and skittish. Her past explodes on the page, keeping the reader riveted to the story as she deals with PTSD, fear for her new friends safety, and allows herself to fall in love with Matt, the fireman and Colin's brother. Bybee's development of characters allows us to get in their heads and watch the characters grow, giving obstacles to overcome. The backstory is not only told in PTSD flashbacks, but in Erin's physical reactions to any sudden movements. We meet more of Colin and Matt's family as their dad is a formal policeman and Grace is constantly choosing the wrong guy to date. We get to see and hear about Parker and Colin finally going to Cabo and him popping the question despite humorous hiccups along the way. The way Erin finally allows people in, opening her heart to love, friendship, and family, will for sure make other readers want Book 3 to be published soon.

The change of voice for audible was unexpected. I was waiting to launch into a listen with the Book 1's voice actress. For future reference, please keep voice actors/actresses the same as it maintains the continuity of the development of the characters. I had to get used to Sands. Some of the male voices were too high-pitched for me. However as the story moved past the first third, I got enveloped in the story and stopped critiquing, so that's why I gave it 3.5 stars for the performance.

Persormance of Male voices was annoying. Loved book!

Book one voices great, not so in book two. Did. Ot like how male voices were done. I did like book!

Story was great!

I loved this book, but the narrator doesn’t do well with other characters voices. The young brother sounded like a smurf and when she tried to be the voice for the men it threw off the whole story.