ALWAYS YOU (Adair Family 3) by Samantha Young

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ABOUT THE BOOK : Release Date April 26, 2022

Arrochar Adair has loved her brother’s ex-bodyguard and best friend, Mac Galbraith, for years. Once upon a time, she was too young for him, but now that she’s a mature woman in her thirties, Arro can see no issue with their difference in age. Yet something deeper, a problem much more difficult to surmount, is keeping them apart.

Mac Galbraith remembers clearly the night Arro became everything to him, no longer just his best friend and boss’s younger sister. However, having made many mistakes over the years, there is one mistake Mac is determined not to make: to believe that he is worthy of Arrochar Adair. Allowing them to grow closer during his daughter, Robyn’s, return has proven his undoing. And when Arro forces the subject of their relationship, his response pushes her away. He just never meant for it to destroy them completely.

Devastated by Mac’s final rejection, Arro is determined to move on without him in her life, though he seems intent on staying put. And when the Adair family face a new threat, one that may have ties to Mac’s past, Arro can’t seem to be rid of the man. In fact, Mac will do anything to protect her.

But with so much hurt between them, will Arro let Mac close enough to guard her from their enemy… before it’s too late?

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REVIEW:  ALWAYS YOU is the third instalment in Samantha Young’s contemporary, adult ADAIR FAMILY erotic, romance series focusing on the Adair siblings. This is forest engineer Arrochar ‘Arro’ Adair, and former police officer turned security specialist Mackennon ‘Mac’ Galbraith’s story line. ALWAYS YOU 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 (Arro and Mac) following several time lines, using present day and memories from the past ALWAYS YOU focuses on the friends to frenemies to lovers relationship between forest engineer Arrochar ‘Arro’ Adair, and former police officer turned security specialist Mackennon ‘Mac’ Galbraith. Arrochar Adair has been in love with her brother’s best friend Mackennon Galbraith for as long as she can remember but Mac is thirteen years older than our story line heroine, and refuses to cross an invisible line between best friend’s little sister and lover. Arrochar Adair, believing Mac felt the same way, was left humiliated and heart broken when our hero pushed Arrochar out of his life, leaving our heroine a shell of her former self but someone has targeted our story line heroine, and Mac becomes guardian and protector of the woman that calls to his heart. What ensues is the back and forth, tempestuous and struggling relationship between Mac and Arro, and the potential fall-out when a predator takes aim at our story line heroine.

Mackennon Galbraith knows a thing or two about love and loss, and never wanted to hurt our story line heroine but Mac all but destroyed Arrochar Adair, and promised himself to become a better man for the woman that he loved. Arrochar Adair has watched from the sidelines as her siblings met their significant others and fell in love but the path towards love was difficult, as each couple had to endure threats to their lives, and in this Arrochar Adair was no different believing the man that she loved was out to destroy what was left of her heart.

The relationship between Arro and Mac is a friends to frenemies to lovers relationship; a best friends younger sister affair that covers several years, numerous heart breaks, miscommunication, misunderstanding, revelations and love. Arrochar Adair knew Mackennon Galbraith would be the only man she would ever love but Mac struggled to move on from a disastrous youth, a youth that was about to come full circle threatening our story line heroine. The $ex scenes are passionate and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including all of Arrochar Adair’s siblings-Lachlan and Robyn (Here with Me 1),Thane and Regan (There With You 2), Brodan and Arran; and yoga instructor Eredine Willows.

ALWAYS YOU is a story of family and friendships, relationships and love; betrayal and vengeance, second chances and forgiveness. The character driven premise is captivating and engaging; the romance is heart breaking and emotional; the characters are broken, energetic but healing.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Here With Me
There With 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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