TW: Mentions of physical abuse

Fairly good start to a series. I love it when authors put together novella series like this. Sometimes I want to be able to just finish a story in a short amount of time. This entire series is perfect for that.

Mackenzie had been in an abusive relationship. I loved that the characters she told (including her mom) all believed her. While I understand that it often isn't like that irl, it's almost never like that in books. I like that Mackenzie had a great support system. It was a refreshing change to the heroine not being believed.

As for Samson, I mostly liked him. The only real issue I had that was he sees Mackenzie for the first time and thinks that she is the "one". I'm fine with insta-love, so that isn't the issue I had. Mackenzie had a boyfriend, and Samson won't go after her because of this. So instead he decides that having sex with a bunch of other girls during the course of the week is a solution to his feelings. I don't think that was necessary. While Samson isn't cheating, he doesn't even really know Mackenzie yet, it still seems like a plot point that is just thrown in there to show us how desirable Samson is.
And, yet again, we have the virginal heroine with the guy who is basically on cloud nine because he then gets to "claim her".

For a novella this one has a good amount of content in it.

M.E. Clayton has been a hit or miss author for me. The stories that I do like of hers, I really like and often they end up being ones that I will re-read. I'm happy to say that this one falls into that category.