Title: Always You
Author: Stephanie Rose
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Synopsis
To Samantha Christensen, Lucas Hunter was always the guy—the sexy, smart and unattainable man she pined for throughout college. To Lucas, she was a treasured friend, a younger sister he felt the need to protect. She had a choice—to wait and hope, or to settle.
When they meet again years later, Lucas looks at Samantha and sees a woman he wants—even though she’s not free to take. As they renew their friendship he finds he’s falling hard, and can’t accept any less than all of her.
Samantha realizes there’s hope with Lucas. Will she finally have a chance to be happy with the man she’s always loved, or will obligations and insecurities stand in their way?
Can Samantha and Lucas convince each other that they belong together? That it was Always You?
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Excerpt
“Shit, Sam! Baby Girl, are you okay?”
God, please no. Calling me Baby Girl now was like sticking a knife directly into my already broken heart. Lucas lifted me off the ground to help me stand. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed the top of my head. I always loved when he did that, but now it hurt like hell. It was torturous, but I let myself feel him one last time. I wanted to remember the way he smelled, how his arms felt like home—but he wasn’t my home anymore, and it killed me to know that.
I pushed out of his hold and looked at his face. His beautiful face. His blue eyes were still glassy, but they were red now. I didn’t want to believe what I saw. I wanted to look at the unshed tears growing in Lucas’s eyes and think it meant he really loved me, and he would never ever hurt me.
I saw an empty cab coming up the block and raised my arm to hail it. I must’ve fallen hard as blood trickled down my wrist when I held my hand up. The cab slowed to a stop and I headed to the curb where it waited. I willed myself to stop crying at least until I got inside.
Lucas grabbed my arm again, shaking his head. “You can’t leave like this.” His voice was cracking. “I need you, I love you. You know me, Sam.”
I shook my head sadly. “No. No, I don’t.”
About The Author
Stephanie lives in the Bronx, New York with her superhero-obsessed husband and son.
Her day job is marketing, but she always has a story in her head.
This lifelong New Yorker lives for Starbucks, book boyfriends, and 80s rock
After spending most of her youth watching soaps, Stephanie has an obsession with angsty drama and hot romance.
She's excited to finally bring the characters she's been dreaming about to life!
Giveaway
Playlist
Alone
– Heart
See
You Again – Carrie Underwood
Still
Into You – Paramore(You Want To) Make A Memory – Bon Jovi
Come To Me – The Goo Goo Dolls
Run – feat. Sugarland – Matt Nathanson
Beneath Your Beautiful – Labrinth
Lonely Tonight (featuring Ashley Monroe) – Blake Shelton
Colorblind – Counting Crows
Make You Feel My Love – Adele
Stay – Rihanna
Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye
Start of Something Good – Daughtry
I Touch Myself – Divinyls
Hanging By A Moment – Lifehouse
It Was Always You – Maroon 5
Superman Tonight – Bon Jovi
Endlessly – Green River Ordinance
Love Someone – Jason Mraz
Almost Is Never Enough – Ariana Grande
Say Something – A Great Big World, Christina Agullera
Without You – Max
I Won’t Give Up – Jason Mraz
Sorry – Buckcherry
All I Wanted – Paramore
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran
All In – Lifehouse
By Your Side – Tenth Avenue North
Turning Page – Sleeping At Last
Marry Me – Jason Derulo
You & I (Nobody In The World) – John Legend
A Thousand Years – Christina Perri
4.5 Stars
A wonderfully engaging debut novel from Stephanie Rose that will pull at your heart strings and leave you in awe, of the power of love.
Sexy and meek, Samantha O'Rourke has had a crush on her best friend's cousin, Lucas Hunter, forever. Lusting after him throughout college was heartbreaking. Samantha's never had the courage to tell Lucas about her feelings. Lucas is now moving to California for a job and Samantha will never get the chance to express herself to Lucas. Leaving well enough alone, Samantha moves on but never lets go.
More than ten years later, Lucas returns to NY because of another job and he connects with Samantha. Samantha was always beautiful to Lucas. She is the girl that got away. The girl that would have wanted more, at a time when Lucas wanted to live life and wasn't ready for commitment. Returning home, Lucas is amazed at the sexy and meek young girl that has grown into a sassy, full of confidence woman. Even though Samantha is married with a cute little daughter, Bella, Lucas can't stop the feelings and raw emotions that overcome him when he is around her.
“I know I’m not supposed to think about you all day long. I know I’m not supposed to want to talk to you every minute of the day, or touch you, or kiss you. But, fuck—”
As Lucas and Samantha rekindle the easy going friendship they had in college, months fly by and they build a friendship that becomes unbreakable and a slow burning desire that is quickly becoming an inferno.
Samantha Christensen is leading an unhappy life. Her husband is a miserable fool, that thinks his wife and daughter are inconveniences to his "young boy" party lifestyle. Bella was introverted because her father always yelled at her and never had time for her. Always making it seem as if Bella was a problem. She didn't have a relationship with her father. When Lucas came into her life, gradually she became a boisterous little girl full of life and energy. Happy and delighted about every thing. Bella also took a piece of Lucas's heart.
As Samantha and Marc's marriage comes to an end, there is a clusterfuck of drama that ensures. Both Lucas and Samantha try their best to handle the situations as best as they can. It was such a very realistic story, the turmoil of an unhappy marriage and custody battle. Lucas was there every step of the way. Giving support and showing his undying and unwavering love for both Sam and especially, Bella. Lucas became both Sam and Bella's superhero. He saved them.
"Superheroes need a girl they can save, so she can save them right back."
*ARC provided by Love Between the Sheets Promotions on behalf of the author for an honest review* Thanks!!!
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