Away with you by Belinda Mary

 

Published by H&J Publishing on September, 30^th, 2025

342 pages

I read the e-book

Back Cover

She’s grieving. He’s heartbroken. Neither expected a second chance.

Katie Winslow has kept to herself since her mother’s death, trading social outings for solitude and science. She’s not looking for love, or anything remotely close to it.

Nathan Jackson crashes back into her life.

Once her high school classmate, now a world-famous Formula 1 driver with a broken heart and a family mess on his hands, Nathan has to survive one week at his brother’s lavish destination wedding in St. Lucia. His solution? Fake a relationship. His fake girlfriend? Katie.

One villa. One bed. Seven days of sun, secrets, and stolen glances that feel dangerously real.

But between disapproving relatives, a jealous ex, and scars from the past, pretending gets complicated, and falling in love was never part of the plan.

Can two people who’ve lost everything learn to trust again, before they lose each other?

My review

First, I would like to thank the author for the ARC. If you are following me for a while, you probably guess that I love second chances stories. It’s one of my favorite tropes. I am less fan of the fake dating, but in Kate/Nathan case, I thought it was cute. The story is label for young adult and I recommend it for that age. There is no much spice in the story and it’s probably the type of book I would love to read when I was 14. I also enjoyed it as a 40 years old woman. Sometime, it’s great to escape from real life and this novel did a great job about that.

I don’t like science at all, but I could relate to Kate on some point. I have been hurt so many time that I also cut myself from the world and concentrate on what I had to do except it was books instead of science. I could understand why she had trouble to open up to Nathan at the beginning and why she thought he was still in love with his ex-girlfriend.

I loved Nathan. You don’t have to be a F1 fan to like him. It’s be honest, it’s not even the central point of the story. Yes, the traveling is causing problems between the main protagonist, but that’s it. I think, it’s more there to show how Nathan’s family is and I am not a big fan. I’m surprise that Nathan is a nice guy after I meet them.

I am not a huge fan of his ex-girlfriend wither. I am glad she is in the story because it’s added intrigue and change the story to be more fun. I was wondering how Nathan and Kate were going to act and it helped me to get thought the end of the book.