3,5 stars

This is the first book in a new series from Jules Bennett!I haven't read this author before so I was excited to see how it goes!The story was great, I liked Livie and Jax, they have a great chemistry!Also I loved all of the secondary characters and I look forward to some of them getting their own stories. Overall, it was an easy book to read and fast paced, my only complain about it is that sometimes the characters annoyed me that I had to stop reading for a little before getting back to it!

Stay With Me is a fun romance. Olivia and Jackson were absolutely wonderful together. Livid had a hard shell when she first arrived to town but when memories started coming back she sifted. Jax is a hot single father, who knows exactly what buttons to push when it comes to Livie. What a wonderful beginning to this series.

I really enjoyed this story of Jackson and Olivia. Livie was definitely a tough nut to crack, but I seriously loved Jax's single dad hotness and his dedication. Great set up for the rest of the series. I cannot wait to see what happens when the girls & guys get their turn for a HEA.

This book tells the story of Olivia and Jackson. It is not part of the Monroe Brothers series, but is definitely a worthy addition to Haven. Olivia and Jackson knew each other from her dad’s airport as kids, but she moved away with her mom and never came back until she needs to deal with the fact her father left her half of the airport, and Jackson got the other half.
I read this book in one day as I couldn’t put it down! I liked how once again there’s a strong friendship storyline in this book, though with three men and three women, I guess we can see where Bennett is going with this. I liked how it was more than just a basic will they get together storyline, the airport and the decisions around it, has a big presence throughout the book. Olivia and Jackson both seem very realistic to me. Olivia wants to get in and out of Haven and doesn’t really want to deal with her emotions, while Jackson has cut himself off Ashe doesn’t plan to be hurt again or to let his family be put in that position either. I also liked the fact that Olivia is five years older than Jackson.
I think anyone who enjoyed the Monroe brothers series will equally enjoy the start of this new series. As well, anyone who likes small town romances. It would also intrigue someone who is looking for an older woman, younger man romance. Thank you to NetGalley for the free advanced copy in return for my honest review.

It took me quite a while to get into this one because I found both of the main characters prickly and annoying at first and the constant attempts to set up future novels in the series repetitive and disrupting (that part never changed). I did really get into the book, largely in part to Jax's adorable daughter who was the best part of the entire book. The ending was so abrupt I was shocked and thought my ereader had frozen. The pros outweighed the cons and I did get invested in Olivia and Jax's story but I am not sure I am invested enough to read the next book in the series.

I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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.

Stay With Me is the first of a new series, Return to Haven. It is Jackson and Olivia’s story. I enjoyed it and look forward to reading more of this series.

.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!