Home at Chestnut Creek by Laura Drake

Author:  Laura Drake
Release Date: July 2. 2019

This is gradually becoming my favorite author.  This book was such a new take on romance and it was exhilarating and refreshing. This is book two of the Chestnut Creek Series and just like the first one, I loved it.  There is something great to be said for an author who takes a risk of writing a romance with the hero being a Native American and do it very tastefully. 

This story is about Nevada Sweet, who from book one, is a raunchy, tough woman with a heart of gold.  If you read book 1 then you know that Nevada was the cook from the food truck that Carly worked at temporarily.  Nevada Sweet is on the run from the drug cartel and she arrives in the small town of Unforgiven to hide out for a while.  But she wasn't counting on meeting Fish, the Navajo cook with a huge heart and even bigger muscles.  Fiercely independent, Nevada does not stand for charity or free rent, so Fish offers her his grandmother's former RV and the relationship starts from there.  With Nevada on the run, will she stay in the small, sweet town of Unforgiven with Fish or will she forever live her life looking over her shoulder?

I wanted to start this review with a hand clap. 👏👏👏  I absolutely enjoyed myself while reading this story.  I loved seeing Nevada and Fish's relationship blossom to such a beautiful love story.  Nevada is like a caged wild animal and she has that natural instinct of survival.  I mean who could blame her after the constant punches that life have thrown at her?  Her character develop was done so well and I could tell that the author took such great care with this character. Joseph or Fish, is  of the Navajo tribe and his back story and character development was great as well.  The author really did her research with this character and both of their past intertwined and contributed to the story arc as a whole.  Most importantly, the story had that small town feel that I love so much and she included characters from the first book, but they did not distract me from the main characters from this story.  The slow and progressiveness of their relationship is what caught me.  They were polar opposites, but love happened and it was so exciting to see it come together.

The only one thing that rubbed the wrong way was the use of the "Indian" word to describe the Navajo tribe. The word was used from the character's point of view, but I just did not like it. Luckily, the word is not mentioned a lot throughout the story.  Other than that small thing, this book was almost perfect.

This book packed so much heart in such a small package and I was so grateful that I got the chance to read a romance with a different type of hero who was hot in all the right places.  This is a Five Star read for me and I had have my tea and blanket while reading this book because it was that good. Go pick this up ASAP. !!!

Rating: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐