Alyssa Carter has rebuilt her life from the wreckage. After tragedy and betrayal made her headline news, she packed up her son and moved to Lennox Falls for a fresh start. She has a list of must-haves for her next chapter: locks, lighting, and a bathtub she can soak in. Finding love is nowhere on her list.

Julian Wade doesn't let love anywhere near him. CEO of WadeHouse Records and the man who raised three siblings after their family fell apart, Julian has built his life on discipline and control. He noticed Alyssa Carter the day she cussed him out on a football field, defending her son, and he's been noticing her ever since. But noticing isn't wanting, and wanting is for men with less to lose.

Between morning runs and Tuesday lunches, they develop a friendship that doesn't need a label. Until the friendship stops being a friendship, and not wanting becomes the most exhausting lie either of them has told themselves.

A widow rebuilding her life. A man who has spent two decades making sure he doesn't need anyone. Always Yours is a slow-burn, friends-to-lovers contemporary romance about grief, survival, and love that arrives after you've stopped looking for it. If you love slow-burn romance with literary depth, Black love rendered with care, and HEAs that feel earned to the very last page, this may be your next good read.

Book Three in The Wade Legacy. An interconnected standalone.
*Can be read standalone.