BE WITH ME (Adair Family 4) by Samantha Young-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 12, 2022

It was the friends-with-benefits proposition he never saw coming…

While Arran Adair might have followed the call of wanderlust in his younger years, it isn’t the reason he stayed away from Ardnoch. Home now, desperate to put the sins of his past behind him, and rebuild his life in the Scottish Highlands, Arran could never have predicted Eredine Willows. The Ardnoch Estate Pilates instructor is a complicated mystery and one Arran can’t help but want to solve.

Eredine has spent the last eight years hiding in Scotland and building walls between her and the people she cares about. Arran is the first Adair who doesn’t treat her as if she’s fragile and demands a genuine friendship. Yet, the attraction sizzling between them is undeniable. So when she realizes she trusts him, Eredine surprises them both by offering Arran one night of no-strings passion.

Arran knows one night will inevitably lead to a desire for more and he’s willing to stay by Eredine’s side for as long as it takes to convince her there’s something real between them. However, just when Arran thinks they might build a future together, Eredine’s past returns to stalk her. And Arran won’t just have to battle her demons to keep them together. He’ll need to battle his own.

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REVIEW: BE WITH ME is the fourth instalment in Samantha Young’s contemporary, adult ADAIR FAMILY erotic, romance series focusing on the Adair siblings. This is thirty-six year renovation coordinator Arran Adair, and thirty-two year old, yoga instructor American Eredine Willows’ story line. BE WITH ME can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but I recommend reading the series in order for back story and cohesion as events in the current time line have been triggered by events in the past.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Arran and Eredine) BE WITH ME follows the friends to lovers relationship between thirty-six year renovation coordinator Arran Adair, and thirty-two year old, yoga instructor American Eredine Willows. For months Eredine Willows and Arran Adair have been doing the proverbial dance of attraction but Eredine is hiding a secret past, and Arran struggles with secrets of his own. Offering a friends with benefits proposition Eredine is hoping to scratch an itch where it concerns our story line hero but the heart wants something more than Eredine is willing to give. As the relationship between Eredine and Arran begins to grow, the past demands reparations, targeting our couple in a deadly game of jealousy, obsession and revenge. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Eredine and Arran, and the potential fall-out as Eredine struggles to trust, and Arran battles between head and heart every time Eredine pushes him out of her life.

Eredine Willows is more or less in hiding having left America eight years earlier for a job in Scotland but Eredine’s past is on the hunt, and it is only a matter of time before Eredine and everyone she loves is exposed to the mania of a crazed man. Arran Adair has known loss, and continues to struggle in the face of grief and guilt but someone is threatening our story line hero, and the threats have now been directed towards the woman with whom Arran is falling in love.

The relationship between Arran and Eredine is a friends to lovers in which Eredine continues struggle with issues of trust. Having buried her past, Eredine is determined to keep everything a secret, a secret that if revealed could threaten everyone she loves. Arran Adair wants something more than a one-night stand, he wants Eredine as his happily ever after but does not understand why Eredine has built a wall around her heart, a wall she refuse to let anyone climb. The $ex scenes are intimate and intense, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters including all, if not most, of the Adair siblings: Lachlan and Robyn (Here with Me 1),Thane and Regan (There With You 2), Arrochar ‘Arro’ Adair, and Mackennon ‘Mac’ Galbraith (Always You 3), and brother Brodan, as well as the return of Brodan’s childhood friend Monroe Sinclair. Brodan and Monroe’s story line is next in ONLY YOU.

BE WITH ME is a story of family and friendships, relationships and love. A tale of obsession and madness, vengeance and betrayal.The fast paced, character driven premise is emotional and engaging; the romance is seductive and provocative; the characters are captivating and determined.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Here With Me
There With You
Always You

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Reviewed by Sandy

Samantha Young is the New York Times,  USA Today  and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of adult contemporary romances, including the On Dublin Street series and Hero, as well as the New Adult duology Into the Deep and Out of the Shallows.  Every Little Thing, the second book in her new Hart’s Boardwalk series, will be published by Berkley in March 2017. Before turning to contemporary fiction, she wrote several young adult paranormal and fantasy series, including the amazon bestselling Tale of Lunarmorte trilogy. Samantha’s debut YA contemporary novel The Impossible Vastness of Us was published by Harlequin TEEN in ebook & hardback June 2017. Play On is an adult contemporary romance and the first in a brand new series set in Scotland. Villain is a companion novella to the New York Times bestselling romance HERO.

Samantha has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 for Best Author and Best Romance for On Dublin Street, Best Romance 2014 for Before Jamaica Lane, and Best Romance 2015 for Hero. On Dublin Street, a #1 bestseller in Germany, was the Bronze Award Winner in the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2013, Before Jamaica Lane the Gold Medal Winner for the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2014 and Echoes of Scotland Street the Bronze Medal Winner for the LeserPreis German Readers Choice Awards for Best Romance 2015.

Samantha is currently published in 30 countries and is a #1 international bestselling author.

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