Review: Relentless by Adriana Locke

Relentless by Adriana Locke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided an ARC via the author, all opinions are my own.  This was published on September 3, 2021 and is available for purchase now.  

Oliver and Shaye were the most frustrating couple at times, but it was so worth it.  If you have been following the Mason family for a while now, you know that Oliver is one of the oldest of the brother's and co-CEO of Mason Limited, the family business.  As his brother's seem to be settling down around him with girlfriends and wives, he hasn't been so lucky to find the contentment of family.  He'd like to, but he's been burned by too many people in his life to trust anyone enough to settle down.  When Shaye comes literally crashing into his life with her car, he never expected to find a woman would could turn his life upside down and start to tear down the walls he put up.  

Shaye is Oliver's exact opposite.  She is chaos walking.  She doesn't come from a warm loving family like the Masons.  She is up to her ears in debt that isn't hers, and no matter what she does she can't seem to keep her head above water.  She is kind, capable, and when it comes to her job she is amazingly organized.  When it comes to her personal life she is a hot mess.  Like Oliver, she has a hard time trusting people, because people in her life betrayed and abused her trust.  She second guesses kind gestures as ways to control her because she doesn't know how real relationships are supposed to work.  When happenstance puts her in the position to work as Oliver's Executive Assistant, a job she rocks at, she isn't sure she should take it.  She needs the job desperately, but she isn't sure working for a guy she's super attracted to is going to work out well.  

As Oliver and Shaye get to know each other, their relationship blossoms.  They both have alot of baggage to work through before they can really move past their problems and trust issues.  Both characters are wonderful and they go through alot of emotional turmoil before the end.  Oliver has alot to deal with, he's got stress from work, his relationship with Shaye, and Adriana throws another twist into the story with issues with his dad who starts acting out of character which just adds to the list of reasons he doesn't trust people and things he needs to fix.  We get a healthy dose of Mason family in this book as they are trying to figure out what is going on with their parents, and as always we have Mama Siggy being graceful as always.  She tackles everything with wisdom and grace, while being a strong matriarch.  Shaye has an awesome support system in the few friends she does have in her found famliy of Nate and Lisbeth, they love her for who she is and support her no matter what she chooses.  They give her advice and suggestions, but they are always on Team Shaye.

I loved this!  I had a hard time putting it down, but that has been true of all of the books I've read about the Masons!  This has some decently steamy scenes. You can read this as a standalone, but I don't know why you wouldn't want to read all of the books because they are awesome and I highly recommend them!  I cannot wait for Wade's book!  

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