Kyra's estranged father has left her all his land in Star Valley. She goes to fix some things he said must be fixed before she can sell it. She needs the money to claim her dream of moving and living in London. The townspeople of Star Valley decide to show her how good their town is and why she should stay and not sell it to developers. The more she gets involved with the people of Star Valley especially Aiden and his family, the more she starts to see the method of her father's will. Of course, nothing worth having is easy. Kyra and Aiden have problems to work out individually and together. Can they?

I enjoyed this story. Set around the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, Kyra sees the town differently as she reconnects with her best friend Lyric. As she becomes part of the community and cleans out her dad's house, she has to deal with what she thought she knew versus what is reality. She has some hard truths to face. Aiden also has to deal with the death of his brother-in-law and his own PTSD. His pain puts a strain on his relationship with Kyra. It causes him to be stupid and cruel.

I loved Morgan and Willow, Aiden's nieces. They brought comic relief when the story was getting heavy. I liked his sister. I liked his friends who busted his chops about a lot of stuff but were there for him. The townspeople were a delight.

I look forward to the rest of the series to see if certain romances happen or not. ( )

When her estranged father died, he left the heroine a huge inheritance that came with stipulations. The heroine has dreams to go to London, England, to start a new life. Instead, she ends up at the small town in Wyoming that her father left her and she meets the hero along the way. The hero wants her to stay and love the small town, because there are dire consequences if the heroine sells the place. He didn't expect to fall in love with the heroine as he interacts with her in a plan to save the town.

This is the first book in the Star Valley series. It features a heroine who closes herself off after her father left her and a hero who is struggling with his own personal demons after his brother-in-law died in the battlefield. There were some wonderful supportive secondary characters in the story, which definitely helped the heroine open up to others and showed how the hero has a caring side to him as he interacted with his nieces. I liked the story vibe of the book but do feel that there are some more details needed in some parts of the story to make it better in my eyes. I also have some deep feelings about the heroine's parents, but glad that the heroine didn't let their actions make her closed off from others. Overall, it's still an enjoyable book and I look forward to reading more books in the Star Valley series in the future.

**Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the review copy. All opinions and thought in the review are my own.** ( )