I was not sure how much I’d enjoy this one. So far all the romances in this series have been older men with younger women, which is not my cup of tea. But, Samantha Young writes romance in a way I always get hooked into the story. Even so, it was still hard for me to get into Mac, because up till now, he’s been the dad figure, even if he was young, 15 years old, when he actually became a dad, and is in this story still younger than me.

But overlooking my issues, the story was very good. As to be expected by this author. It was easy to understand Arro’s reasons for not giving Mac another chance at first. I mean it was like 3 times he had turned her away. Two of them after really kind of giving her mixed signals. Mac, yeah, it makes sense why he at first was unsure, I mean the younger sister of his best friend. Basically about the same age, if even younger than his own daughter. Things I loved about the story though are how Mac chose to work on himself by going to therapy. I like how we got a really good glimpse into that. Actually made me think about going back myself for my own issues.

More than the emotional relationship part of the story though was all the kind of action and mystery. Young does a great job at throwing that in when you least expect it or have decided it is finally going to just concentrate on the relationship. But I knew better, I was sure that what seemed to be the final answer to who was leaving the notes wasn’t going to be the end-all final solution to the problem. While I had a few guesses as to how it would go, I was still kept actually guessing until close to the end. And I like that in a mystery type of story!

For some reason I thought this would be a trilogy, but then I realized that there are two more brothers that we need stories for, so I’m glad to know we are not done hearing from this family yet.

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.