STAY WITH ME by K.L. GRAYSON

‘My heart has only ever beat for one girl.’

Stay With Me is a first love/second chance romance we’d describe as emotional and sweet. We loved how the author didn’t involve drama for the sake of drama, how we were afforded the chance to spend much quality time with Allie and Jackson, and how the characters communicate. Factors we that really worked for us.

K.L. Grayson provided us with characters we grew to love and really care about. From those heady young days of first love, through tragedy and second chances, we worried for them and revelled in a soulmate love we knew, in our hearts, would surely find its way.

‘Letting go of someone you love is hard. Moving on is sometimes harder.’

We first meet Allie McAllister, at eighteen, Jackson McCoy at nineteen, two young people desperately in love, yet on the cusp of making some very grown-up decisions. From there the story moves eight years into the future, where Jackson is returning to their hometown of Bear Creek, Idaho.

Allie is now a divorced, single Mum to the oh so cute, Mason, and Jackson has spent the last two years travelling the world and finding himself after ending his country music career.

There is a lot of water under the bridge and some unresolved pain both Allie and Jackson have to work through, but it never became cumbersome. Just the opposite, it was handled believably on both sides. We understood Allie’s reservations and empathised with Jackson’s past.

“Allie?”
“Yeah?”
“There isn’t a rewind button in life, but every once in a while, we get a do-over. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, we get a chance to do right the second time what we got wrong the first time…”

Through both pov’s we learn of the tragedy that tore them apart eight years earlier, and hurdle over the obstacles with them in their present.  We were on tenterhooks along with Jackson and Allie, waiting for the perfect moments to shatter as they came to terms with their past heartache.

“If we do this, you’re mine, Allie.”
“I’ve always been yours.”

We adored Jackson, Allie and all the characters in this small town romance, especially little Mason, Allie’s five-year-old son. His relationship with Jackson absolutely melted our hearts.

This is our second read by this author, and we’ve promised ourselves to read anything K.L. Grayson releases in the future because as far as characters, sweetness, and emotion goes, she has delivered. We understood these characters, we believed in their story, we felt their love. A perfect book to escape reality for a few hours. Allie, Jackson and Mason will steal your hearts!