ONLY YOU (Adair Family 5) by Samantha Young-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 21, 2023

Once upon a time, Monroe Sinclair was Brodan Adair’s best friend, but now he’s a stranger and one of Hollywood’s leading men…

It took Monroe Sinclair eighteen years to return home to Ardnoch after a fateful night that devastated her friendship with Brodan Adair. She fled her unrequited love for him, as well as her difficult family life, and tried not to look behind her. Only a daughter’s guilt could lure her back to the Highlands and the assumption that Brodan Adair rarely ever sets foot in their hometown. She can handle seeing the rest of the Adairs so long as she can avoid her ex-best friend and the only man she’s ever loved.

Nothing is more important to Brodan than family, and only his demons have the power to keep him from them. For years, acting was something he was lucky enough to be good at, yet it wasn’t his priority—Ardnoch and his siblings were. But when a ghost from his past returned out of the blue, Brodan tried to outrun its haunting, taking him further and further from home. When exhaustion finally forces him back to the family fold, the last thing he wants is to encounter another ghost. But that’s exactly what Monroe Sinclair has been to him.

When a promise to his nephew obliges Brodan to work with Monroe, it forces them to face their past. The explosive connection that has always existed between them resurrects truths long buried. Yet, just when they might be on the brink of a second chance, the ghost from Brodan’s past finally catches up to him and threatens not just their happiness, but their very lives.

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REVIEW: ONLY YOU is the fifth (and final ?) instalment in Samantha Young’s contemporary, adult ADAIR FAMILY erotic, romance series focusing on the Adair siblings of Ardnoch, Scotland. This is thirty seven year old, actor Brodan Adair, and primary school teacher Monroe Sinclair’s story line. ONLY YOU can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Monroe and Brodan) ONLY YOU focuses on the second chance relationship between childhood best friends actor Brodan Adair, and primary school teacher Monroe Sinclair. From an early age Brodan Adair and Monroe Sinclair were best friends; always having one another’s back, and in the case of Brodan, the consummate protector of our story line heroine. Monroe Sinclair grew up in an abusive family, and the Adairs would be there to pick up the pieces but as Brodan and Monroe reached young adulthood, Brodan became a bit of a man-wh*re, and Monroe watched from the sidelines as Brodan ventured onto bigger and better things. Eighteen years earlier, a drunken night with someone else, ripped Brodan and Monroe apart, neither one forgiving the other for destroying one another’s hearts. Fast forward to present day wherein Monroe has returned to Ardnoch as a teacher, in the wake of her mother’s surgery but never expected to come face to face with her past, a past that wants nothing to do with our story line heroine. Enter Brodan Adair, world famous Hollywood actor, and the man that is about to destroy Monroe’s heart all over again. Brodan Adair is tired of the Hollywood scene, and the result of an emotional break down finds Brodan coming home to Scotland in an effort to gain some perspective about his life going forward. What ensues is the acrimonious but rebuilding relationship between Brodan and Monroe, and the potential fall-out as the past refuses to let go, threatening our couple in the process.

Brodan Adair despises Monroe Sinclair to the point of animosity, bullying, aggression and emotional abuse. Misunderstanding and mistaken beliefs pushes Brodan to all but threaten the woman with whom he will fall in love but his disruptive and disrespectful attitude and behavior is nothing short of heart beaking, pushing Monroe to reconsider her return home. Having lived a life in fear at the hands of her abusive and neglectful parents, Monroe has no desire to live out the rest of her life, fearing the repercussions of a man who is unable to let go.

The relationship between Monroe and Brodan is a second chance; a rekindling friendship that will turn into something more but not before insults, scorn, heart break and raw emotion threaten the psyche that is out story line heroine. When Brodan is asked to help direct the local primary school play, Brodan ensures Monroe knows who is in charge, and his abhorrent behavior is enough to push Monroe out of his life. It will take plenty of grovelling from Brodan in an effort to seek forgiveness from the woman he loves but the past is determined to destroy any hopes of a happily ever after. The $ex scenes are intimate, provocative and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, energetic and familiar secondary and supporting characters including all of Brodan’s siblings, their spouses and the next generation. We are reintroduced to baker Sloane Harrow, and security specialist Walker Ironside. Sloane and Walker’s story is next in BEYOND THE THISTLES, the first instalment in the Adair Family spin off The Highlands Series.

ONLY YOU is an emotional story of heart break and misunderstanding; power and control, betrayal and vengeance, forgiveness, acceptance, family and love. The premise is dramatic, intense and edgy; the romance is spirited and spicy; the characters are broken, dynamic and wounded.

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

Copy supplied for review

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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