Orphaned Sam is left in the care of her brother's best friend Julian. Sam becomes all grown up and independent carving out a career in Bollywood and secretly as a writer then after much angst and a threat against Sam to push them together they real use that they love each other. To me this was very light easy reading. I did find it a bit repetitive at times but generally it followed the boy meets girl all grown up and ends with marriage love and a happy ever after.

This book had a slow start but did develop a good background of Julian and Sam's (Samaira) life prior to current times. It also developed the friendship between two other people important to their story. That would be Anil Kapoor (Maharaja of Ranipoor) and his sister Princess Kiara. Their fathers (and Sam's) had started the Orion Group and it became the men's responsibility at an early age.
There is a lot of emotions in this story as well as mixed signals between Sam and Julian. Most of those coming from Julian. He had a lot of guilt feelings when it comes to her. It also felt that there was a lot of time spent going over and over those feelings. Sam had some of those guilt feelings too along with feelings of abandonment. A little too much time spent there for my liking. It is a good thing that the Prince and his sister have been behind Sam all the way and provided love and support. In fact, Kiara was Sam's best friend. Over the years they had been a handful as they were growing up.
I liked that Sam had so many skills and hidden depths. While Julian was a smooth negotiator, Sam really threw him of balance. There was a least one time when he said something that made ME want to throw something at his head. That is something that Sam does eventually get a shot at. Julian was just going to show up and try to give Sam guidelines on how to act in public. Really? Are you kidding me? How arrogant. She's an independent woman who has been on her own as an adult for some time.
I will say that they sure seemed to like the F word in this story. It felt a bit overloaded on that word. The story also was rich with details on different kinds of foods, costumes, locations, businesses, and places. There was a lot of details which was well done but at times felt like it almost overtook the story of the M.C.'s.

It had a good ending but I just wish I had liked it more.

"I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”