My Way To You

by Catherine Bybee

Overview

An Amazon Charts bestseller.

A woman’s journey through tragedy leads to the discovery of love in a novel about hope and survival by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee.

When a wildfire nearly destroys Parker Sinclair’s family home, it’s just one more disaster to add to her mountain of stress. For the past two years, she has shouldered the responsibility of raising her younger brother and sister after their parents’ untimely deaths. Forced to leave college for a crappy job that barely pays the bills, Parker manages her family property, which consumes every aspect of her life. Now winter is coming and the forecast isn’t spreading sunshine on the dark cloud over her head. The last thing Parker needs is a mudslide destroying everything she has worked so hard to maintain.

Colin Hudson’s job as a public works supervisor is to protect Parker’s property and neighborhood from further damage. But it’s a little hard when the owner of the land is a control freak who tries to do everything herself. The hardworking, attractive young woman is far from the “hot mess” she claims to be. In fact, her tight grip of control is one of the things that attract him the most. It’s also the hardest to crack. Now Colin’s working overtime to help Parker open up her heart, trust him, and let him in.

As Parker and Colin work together to keep her home and neighborhood safe, they may be in for another disaster. Or they may just realize that sometimes it takes destruction to create something new.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542009805
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	03/10/2020
Series:	Creek Canyon , #1
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee has written twenty-eight books that have collectively sold more than 5.5 million copies and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Raised in Washington State, Bybee moved to Southern California in the hope of becoming a movie star. After growing bored with waiting tables, she returned to school and became a registered nurse, spending most of her career in urban emergency rooms. She now writes full time and has penned the Not Quite series, the Weekday Brides series, the Most Likely To series, and the First Wives series.

Editorial Reviews

12/16/2019

A healthy, mutually supportive relationship is at the center of the touching first Creek Canyon romance from Bybee (Faking Forever). After Parker Sinclair’s parents died two years ago, she dropped out of college to care for her two younger siblings. Life has been a financial struggle ever since, made worse by the recent wildfire that came close to destroying the family’s Creek Canyon, Calif., home. With mudslides now a looming threat, public works supervisor Colin Hudson is tasked with overseeing the building of two temporary dams on Parker’s property. Despite their instant mutual attraction, Parker’s fierce independence and refusal to accept Colin’s help, even when he’s just doing his job, leaves the pair at odds with each other. The protective bond between Parker and her siblings and Colin’s close relationship with his own gregarious family give the story its heart. Though the path to mutual understanding could stand to be shorter, Parker and Colin’s emotional vulnerability as they learn to open up to one another is sure to endear them to readers. Romance fans will be pleased with this tender love story. Agent: Jane Dystel, Dystel & Goderich Literary. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

A healthy, mutually supportive relationship is at the center of the touching first Creek Canyon romance from Bybee (Faking Forever). Romance fans will be pleased with this tender love story.” —Publishers Weekly

“A fascinating novel that aptly balances disastrous circumstances.” —Kirkus Reviews

“My Way to You is an unforgettable book fueled by Catherine Bybee’s own life, along with the dynamic cast she created that will capture your heart.” —Harlequin Junkie

“The emotions were so real, and the explanation and descriptions were exceptional. It brought to life the dangers, the determination, and the camaraderie of people who face such challenges to their homes and livelihood.” —Wicked Reads

“Catherine Bybee is an author that I read often and I always find myself lost her in books not [wanting] to put them down.” —A Soccer Mom’s Book Blog

“There [are] so, so many wonderful things about this book, and I don’t want to spoil a second of it. Suffice it to say, I think you’ll be glad you took the time to read it!” —Wicked Cool Flight

From the Publisher

2019-12-23
A young woman trying to keep her siblings together in their California home contends with a series of natural disasters and is thankful for help from a chivalrous Public Works supervisor who tempts her to relinquish some of her control.

Two years after her parents died in an accident, Parker Sinclair is fighting to keep her family's home and make sure her younger sister stays in college and her brother finishes high school. She's not prepared to deal with a Santa Clarita Valley wildfire in her backyard. While the house barely survives, the forest around them is destroyed, leaving them vulnerable to mudslides. Enter Colin Hudson, a recently promoted supervisor in the LA County Public Works Department, who oversees an enormous, monthslong project engineered to channel water around existing homes. Colin and his crew create a command post on Parker's property, and he comes to admire her tenacity and intelligence. The two inch into a relationship, but his protective nature clashes with her independence and need to control her environment as much as possible. Yet when the Sinclair home is threatened again by unrelenting rain, Colin and his family offer Parker and her siblings a circle of people they can trust and lean on. Author Bybee (Faking Forever, 2019, etc.) draws on her own dramatic experience with fires and mudslides to create a satisfying love story between two people who would never have met if not for disaster. The personal romantic conflicts are slightly weak, but the sheer force of Mother Nature's meddling makes for fascinating reading, and the gradual weaving together of Colin's and Parker's families, along with an emotionally wounded tenant—whose attraction to Colin's brother sets up a second book in the series, presumably—gives additional emotional weight and texture to the story.

A fascinating novel that aptly balances disastrous circumstances and healing romance.

Kirkus Reviews

Ariela Crow narrates the first in a new contemporary romance series. After a wildfire hits her secluded California neighborhood, Parker worries about mudslides causing catastrophic damage to her family’s property. As a public works supervisor, Colin is tasked with overseeing the area to keep everyone safe from further disaster. Crow’s performance captures the personalities of the characters and the emotional roller coaster ride they experience. With unique voices given to each of the characters, it isn’t difficult to distinguish who is speaking during conversations. Crow’s ability to believably voice characters of a variety of ages adds an additional element to the production. Overall, Crow’s pleasant narration keeps the listener engaged. A.L.S.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2020 - AudioFile