A Royal Mile (Return to Dublin Street 2) by Samantha Young-review tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 17, 2025
It’s hard to stay in the friend zone when the attraction is this hot…
Going into my senior year of university at war with a member of the British royal family wasn’t in my carefully laid plans. Sebastian Thorne might be the grandson of a princess, but it’ll take more than a royal pardon to get me to forgive him for pretending to be someone he’s not.
But Sebastian is determined to be my friend. Even if it means signing up to a psych experiment just to get me to talk to him. Who knew a sincere apology and him saying my name in that posh English accent would make me weak in the knees?
This year was supposed to be about my dissertation and graduate school. Only, Sebastian has thrown my ordered world off kilter. He makes me bolder, more confident. A braver version of me.
Yet every lingering glance and stolen touch has me realizing one thing…
I’m falling for my best friend.
There’s just one problem. Sebastian has demons, ones that make him determined to keep me in the friend zone no matter the cost.
And even when temptation sends his walls tumbling down, the beauty we’ve found might not survive against the powerful will of outside forces…
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REVIEW:A ROYAL MILE is the second instalment in Samantha Young’s contemporary, new adult RETURN TO DUBLIN STREET erotic, romance series, a second generation spin off, set in the author’s ON DUBLIN STREET world. This is twenty-two year olds, Sebastian Thorne, and Lily Sawyer’s story line. A ROYAL MILE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. Lily is the daughter of Olivia Holloway and Nate Sawyer (BEFORE JAMAICA LANE /On Dublin Street 3).
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers, by way of mention, for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Sebastian and Lily) A ROYAL MILE follows the enemies to friends to lovers relationship between Sebastian Thorne, and Lily Sawyer. Lily Sawyer is working towards her degree in psychology, working part time on a radio call-in show about dating and love but a betrayal by Sebastian Thorne, sent Lily into a spiral. Fast forward to present day, Sebastian is determined to grovel for forgiveness but Lily refuses to accept that our hero has changed. Claiming he only wants friendship, Lily is willing to meet Sebastian at his demands, only to discover she would lose her heart to a man who wants nothing more.
The world building follows the up and down, back and forth, sometimes acrimonious relationship between our story line couple. Each with a crew of tight-knit friends, their time spent together is fraught with issues of trust, heart breaking back stories, and an inability to let got of the past.
The relationship between Lily and Sebastian is tempestuous at best but Sebastian is hoping for a second chance to prove he is reliable and honorable but someone else is working behind the scenes to take down everything our couple has built. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of charismatic and familiar secondary and supporting characters many of whom we met in the original On Dublin Street series including Lily’s parents Olivia and Nate, Lily’s sister January, as well as the return of footballer Baird McMillan. We are introduced to Lily’s friends Sierra, Maddie and Sebastian’s sister Juno, and their parents Paul Thornes and Lady Clarissa Hanover; Sebastian’s roommates and friends: Harry, Zac, and Oliver Abernathy.
A ROYAL MILE is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, obsession and deceit, family and friendships, forgiveness and love. The premise is thought provoking, climactic and startling; the romance is seductive and passionate; the characters are determined and bold.
Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one ON LOVEROSE LANE
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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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