I received a complimentary arc form NG for review.

This is the story of Olivia and Jax. They knew each other as teens I guess you could say. He was 13 and she was 18. Yep it is an older woman storyline. Now it is ten years later and Jax is a single dad and he works and owns part of the airport Olivia inherits from her father.

Olivia wants to sell fast so she can close this chapter of her life. She has a lot of bitterness against her father. However, the airport is the only thing Jax has besides his daughter and so he cant buy it from Olivia and he won't sell. One of Olivias friends suggests they fix it up instead and that is where the plot goes from there.

While working this out Olivia and Jax's daughter fall in love and Jax has always been in love with Olivia. But can Olivia stick around? when the town is a painful place for her and she is up for a big promotion at work.

This was a different take on a love story and I really enjoyed it. It was well written and kept me interested until I read the very last page.

.5 stars for the first in this series, but a continuation of stories in the town of Haven, the setting for the previous Monroe brothers books. This book is a cross between women's fiction and contemporary romance, but leans more towards the women's fiction side. Livie has returned to Haven with her two friends to settle her affairs once and for all since her dad died and left her half of his airport. The other half is owned by Jax, a single dad who loved her dad like his own. Livie and her father had had a falling out so she has to come to terms to maybe realizing all was not as it seemed so many years ago.

I loved all of the characters we meet in this story and look forward to some of these characters getting their own stories. Livie and Jax have great chemistry and the author does a wonderful job of showing the struggle of finding true happiness when it turns out it's nothing like what you thought. Jax's daughter Piper is adorable and the relationship between her and Livie was as good as the romance.

If I have any complaint, it's that I refuse to believe a dad living in Georgia, home to the world HQ of Coca-Cola, is telling his kid one day she can drink Pepsi. Oh - and Livie disses the Oak Ridge boys. I'm showing my age now...

‘Stay with Me’ is simply a book that tries to bring 2 very different people, their differing goals and their diverging circumstances together and finally trying to make it work. It’s not exactly rom-com kind of material, and I wasn’t too sure what to expect with this story, but there wasn’t any doubt that this is a light-hearted, small town read with an unusual enough premise for Olivia to meet Jax again—the younger man who’d nursed an adolescent crush on her and is now all man to know what he wants.

There were misunderstandings along the way, past hurts that come to light as both Olivia and Jax needed to work through that on their own, and a 4-year-old who spoke in a way that was way too old for her age. Throw in the perfect setup of future couples and the trilogy for Jules Bennett’s ‘Haven’ series is set.

In fact, it wasn’t hard to like Jax at all, who, despite being younger (but capable single-father), showed more sense and maturity than Olivia who spent more time denying her emotions, running away and reiterating how much her career meant to her. Yet if this was to prove that age difference was merely a number and not a sign of the older being better, I thought ‘Stay with Me’ succeeded a little too well. Not that I naturally expected Olivia to behave better because she was older of the pairing, but because I didn’t expect that she would be a ruthless corporate shark in one life and a petulant, delusional coward out of her office comfort zone who didn’t give an inch at all.

The angsty build-up took me by surprise as a consequence, and I couldn’t get over the pacing of the impending climax and the abrupt resolution—Jax’s constant, exhausting chase vs. Olivia’s capitulation, and the love declarations that quite literally happened in the last 2 pages—which made for an ending that actually had me examining the file to see if I’d downloaded a corrupted and/or incomplete version of the ARC. A longer denouement and a shorter run through of Jax/Olivia’s push-pull would have eased the strung-out plot towards the end somewhat and made the pairing a more believable one.

My disgruntled mood aside, ‘Stay With Me’ is nonetheless, a decent read and an easy introduction to this new series. A HFN-ending might not exactly be what many others want, but if you’re perfectly happy with a resolution no matter the speed, then this is a ride that wouldn’t be bumpy at all.

For a first book in a new series...and an indication what to expect with the subsequent stories, this will not disappoint. The writing itself was superb, the characters engaging and relatable, and the overall story was one that captured my imagination from the beginning.

I truly look forward to the next books in the series, hoping they revolve around Jade, Melanie, Cade, and Tanner.

This ARC book was complimentary, provided by the Publisher and NetGalley. I am voluntarily providing my honest review.

Jax has had a hard time with people leaving him. Just once it would be nice for someone to stay because they wanted to. Unfortunately Olivia has no intention of staying and made that clear from the beginning. The things that happen to slowly make her see what a future with Jax would be like was sigh worthy.

Olivia is back in the town she grew up in and wants to sell the airport her dad left her. Her life is in the big city now and it's time to make the break for good. Unfortunately, since her dad left half of the airport to Jackson, who was like a son to him, they have to work together to decide what to do. Jackson has grown from an awkward teen into a handsome single father. Fun romance!