WINNER! Utopia Con LGBTQ+ Book of the Year“A romance novel meant for the masses. For all humans, for all readers, for all love.”–Nicky F. Grant, award-winning author of Behind the MasksEVERYONE needs to read this book! Riveting, electric, and poignant. Emma does not waste her words. Every sentence, every line of this story was magic.–Kate Stewart USA Today Bestselling AuthorHow long would you … Author
How long would you wait for love?
Max Kaufman was kicked out of his home as a teen and his life has been an uphill battle ever since. From addiction and living on the streets, to recovery and putting himself through nursing school, he’s spent the last ten years rebuilding his shattered sense of self. Now he’s taken a job as a private caretaker to Edward Marsh III, the president and CEO of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Max soon learns Marsh’s multi-billion-dollar empire is a gold and diamond-encrusted web of secrets and lies.
The longer Max works and lives with the Marsh family, the tighter the secrets tangle around him. And his heart—that he’s worked so hard to protect—falls straight into the hands of the distant, cold, and beautiful son of a dynasty…
Silas Marsh is set to inherit the family fortune, but his father is determined his heir be the “perfect” son. Before Silas can take over the company and end its shady business practices, he must prove himself worthy…and deny his true nature.
Silas must choose: stand up to his father by being true to himself and his undeniable feelings for Max. Or pretend to be someone he is not in order to inherit everything. Even if it means sacrificing a chance at happiness and real love.
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5+++ stars
#Milas for LIFE
“Love always WINS”
Damn this book killed me in the most beautiful way. God where do i start about this book!! I don’t think i could do justice to anything i write about this epic story. Emma Scott has blown my mind with this beautiful and emotional journey of two guys Max and Silas. It was my first MM and its not my forte but i had to read it when i first heard about it bcz it’s Emma Scott and damn this is so so much more than a simple MM romance. Emma has beautifully portrayed all the personal struggles and experiences of both the characters and made me feel that i am actually living those experiences. This book, its story, characters, emotions and everything owned my heart from the beginning.
I love Max and Silas and Darlene and Eddie. All these characters makes this story more fantastic. This is the most powerful and heartbreaking storyline i have read in a while. I sobbed at so many points during this book but it was worth it!! Emma nailed it!!! Ms. Scott has given a special gift in the form of this book. A beautifully intricated story with a powerful message.
“Love is Love”
This book will always hold a special place in my heart. I love everything Emma writes but this one is my favorite by her yet. And will always be in my top reads list.
Everyone needs to read this book ASAP.
Highly recommend!!!
A wonderful and beautiful story of love, hope, and courage. Emma scott is a powerhouse writer. Talented and masterful at portraying characters who make me think and feel so much for them.
Max Kaufman and Silas Marsh are the male protagonists at the heart of this romance. Both have complex histories that are sensitively shown. Their journey, at the point we meet them in the story, has taken enormous strength of character in terms of overcoming addiction and bigotry, and the shattered sense of their own self worth. As the story unfolds, we see them dealing with the fall out of their past and the barriers they face in their present. Their strength of character further develops along with their relationship and undeniable attraction to each other. As an aside, I have to add a special note about a supporting character, who might have stolen the show, he was portrayed so thoughtfully and was perhaps pivotal in clearly showing the kind, gentle, and caring attitude of the protagonists. His addition in the story really was genius.
I was utterly convinced by the push and pull of their romantic relationship and loved every moment of the eloquent telling and the depiction of the protagonists. Emma Scott made me feel so much for Max and Silas and long for their happiness and acceptance in all areas of their lives. A feel-good story that should easily engage and warm the heart of any romantic reader.
Easily one of the best M/M books I have ever had the pleasure of devouring. Heartbreaking, haunting, romantic. I daresay, this book is perfection.
Emma Scott never fails to amaze me. She’s truly the queen of slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance and that’s a fact! Her books are angsty and emotional, but no matter how sad it is, there is always light, hope and love accompanying.
“Someday isn’t a day of the week. You gotta go out there and get it.”
We meet Max Kaufman the first time in Forever Right Now as Darlene’s best friend who has recently moved from San Fransisco to Seattle for a new job opportunity. I can’t tell you enough how much I adore Max. He has so much heart and soul and is one of the kindest people overall. His journey to acceptance and happiness was a long one but he is getting there. My heart broke over and over again for Silas. What he has endured is nothing short of horrendous. Every time he was assaulted by one of the flashbacks from his trip to Alaska, I just wanted to wrap him in a blanket and hug the shit out of him and tell him that it’s going to be alright. Max and Silas had both endured so much from their families because of their sexual orientation and I’m so happy that they found each other (I’m usually not so cheesy, but Emma brings this side out of me lol)
“I had friends whom I loved and who loved me. I wanted to rejoin my flesh and bone family, but I had another family, made of friends who accepted me just as I was.”
Thank God, Max and Silas have such an amazing support system. The side characters like Darlene, Faith, Eddie, Ramona, Rachel, Daniel etc. were a bright light in the story. They are amazing friends and amazing human beings. Each of them helped Silas & Max at some point in their life, especially Eddie. I love him so much and was smiling the whole time when I read a scene with him in it. I can’t emphasize this point enough, but it’s so good to see women supporting women and having healthy relationships! Go Girls!
Someday someday
Stop right now and go one click RFN!!!
You ever read a book and as you get to that very last page.. you sit there and think how in the world am I going to write a review? I’m not even worthy to write a review after reading something as spectacular as this. This Is How Someday Someday will make you feel when you finish. One Hellova’ read and I also know I’m going to have one hellova’ book hangover as well!!
Scott pulls at all those heartstrings.. from the very beginning to the very end..It definitely will have that special place in my heart forever for this book…
Top 2019 Read for me!!!
10 fan-damn-tastic stars!!!
Thank you for writing Emma Scott!!!
We already met Max in FOREVER RIGHT NOW and we met people from FRN in THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT before that – BUT you don’t have to read those two books to understand SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY. Max was Darlene’s sponsor in FRN and Darlene was the best friend in TBP. I would suggest you read both books before reading this, because they’re beautiful, but you really don’t have to – they don’t have much to do with this book!
If this ↑ was too complicated for you and/or if you’re just as weird/OCD as I am with book things … this is your reading order:
THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT
FOREVER RIGHT NOW
SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY
OK!
Max and Silas.
Max just moved back ‘home’ to Seattle to start a great job as an ER nurse.
He grew up in Seattle until his parents kicked him out for being gay when he was 16.
And now he’s back – for the new job, and also for maybe trying to make peace with his family again.
And as if that peace-making wasn’t hard enough – his job is killing him. He’s not made for ER work. But thankfully his boss has another job for him. As a private nurse for an MS patient.
Enter Silas. His father was just diagnosed with the worst kind of MS you can get. Dear old dad doesn’t want the public to know about it – he’s the boss of a multi-billion dollar pharma company.
Silas is not yet ready to take over the company – thinks his dad. He wouldn’t let Silas take over at all if he could get away with it. He hates Silas for being gay. He even sent him to a horrible anti-gay-camp as a teenager. And his older son is also not able to take over – Eddie has Aspergers and in the old man’s eyes that’s just as bad as being gay.
As you can imagine Silas and Max have to fight through a LOT to get to their happily ever after.
But the reader will LOVE every single second of their journey!
This book was just beautiful!
So very heartbreaking and sad and funny and sweet and …. grrrrr. You just wanted to throw both fathers out the next window. How can people be so horrible?! Our world is so much better than it used to be … but I wish we lived in a time where not a single kid would be afraid to be who they want to be and to love who they want to love. Ugh, I just hate people!
But I loved this book. It was your typical Emma Scott cry-fest! Only this time she tried her hand at a gay romance. And it was just perfect. But of course since it was an Emma Scott book, it was mega heartbreaking and kind of hopeless at the beginning – but of course our darlings will fight for that HEA!
The best part of the story was Silas’s brother Eddie – such a great guy! I loved all his scenes!
I loved ALL the scenes in this book. Even the ones that made me ugly-cry!
Amazing Romance.
I hope Netflix has their reading glasses on – they need to grab this asap!
SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY was such a beautiful love story! Sweet & heartbreaking & funny … I just adored it! Please run to your nearest amazon for your own Max & Silas & Eddie – these guys will be sold out in no time!!
What an incredible book. Gut wrenching, heart breaking emotions but so full of hope and love, it mended my heart even as it was breaking.
Max and Silas, two wonderfully, beautiful broken men who go to hell and back both physically and mentally, just to be themselves. This book gripped me from the start as I went through a rollercoaster of emotions.
Emma Scott always seems to write characters that are full of depth and who grow and develop throughout. This was no exception. I was rooting for them all the way, especially for what Silas needed to overcome. There can be such cruelty in the world but none more than what he was forced to endure as a seventeen year old and by whom. Max was perfect for him and I loved how slowly he unravelled all of Silas’s walls and started to heal him and make him believe how perfect he was just being himself, even as he had to confront his own heartbreaking past.
Some difficult subjects were tackled with feeling and realism. A special mention to Silas’s brother Eddie, I absolutely loved his innocent but brutal honesty and his sweet eccentric nature. Beautifully written love story, full of heart and soul, an easy 5 stars all the way!
This was Emma Scott’s first book in MM Romance genre, and I’m glad that she took up this challenge because in her perfect style she took this opportunity to spread the awareness of important issues regarding LGBTQ youth.
“There aren’t rules about love” “Or shouldn’t be, anyway”
Yes, Someday, Someday is another Emma Scott’s masterpiece with a powerful message. It is a beautiful touching love story about believing in yourself, acceptance, tolerance, fighting for what you want and for yourself and for love.
Max and Silas very easily found the way to my heart. Max with his funny, altruistic nature and Silas as a walking iceberg melting with each consecutive chapter. And Eddie was an amazing secondary character. I love him and I am very happy that Max and Silas had such a wonderful group of friends who supported them
After reading Max and Silas’s story it was hard for me to think about them as fictional characters out of the book because they’ve both experiences real cruelties that still happen in the world. I was and I am still outraged that they had to go through this all, that such drastic action is still being taken against people who just want to be themself. I just can’t believe it.
“Our future was wide open. No one was going to stand in the way of how much we love each other. And as the word slowly changed, it was the deepest hope of my heart that someday, no one would want to.” – Max
I think each of us is too busy with our lives and doesn’t often think about the injustices that others face. Someday, Someday is a book that forces you to think about it. And just like Max, I can only hope that these injustices will end someday.
I very rarely give 5 stars. It’s been a few years. This one deserves it. I don’t read traditional MF romance any longer, but this author makes me want to grab one of hers to see if they are as good. I really hope this isn’t her only foray into MM romance.
There was a lot going on here. Two damaged men- but for very different reasons. And while normally I would have issue with both main characters having so much baggage- it totally worked. Add in a brother with Asperger’s who wasn’t a caricature of the illness.
And oh I cried. More than once. The story just flowed, the prose was beautiful, I devoured every word. There was no filler just to take up page space. No reverting to a sex scene to take up space.
The conflict resolution with one character was just so perfect. Totally unexpected and completely perfect.
Please, please bring us more of this world. There are other gay characters that need their happily ever after as well.
Someday, Someday might be the best book I read last year and last year introduced a lot of great stories for me. Max – sweet Max, he’ll be in my heart forever. This story will definitely go down as an all-time favorite. Emma Scott’s world-building has a way of sucking a person in and not letting them go even as the story comes to an end. She’s creative and real, her descriptions allow you to see exactly the picture she’s painting with her words. Someday, Someday is masterly inventive and creative storytelling at its best. It’s raw and real and shows how the human spirit can overcome the odds. I can’t recommend this book enough.
If you’ve ever wanted to try a gay-themed romance, begin here.
Side note, I’ve had a few friends (very few) who started the book and decided it might be a little too difficult to read. I tell you as I tell them, keep going. You’ll love these men and in the end, they did too.
Highly recommended, it’s a solid four thumbs up for this beauty.
If you like your MM romance angsty, then this is your jam. Max is clawing his way back from rejection by his family after coming out, and then a period of drug addiction. He’s now a nurse, but he’s too affected by the care of his patients so he is recommended as a private nurse to an ailing billionaire.
Silas is the billionaire’s son, still struggling under the thumb of a man who sent him to anti-gay therapy (big surprise, it scarred him but didn’t work). The attraction between him and Max is electric– but if Silas acts, he loses the chance to save millions of people from the predatory practices of his father’s pharmaceutical firm.
I loved these characters and so wanted them to find their HEA, but every time a new obstacle came up my heart clenched. An awesome read.
Life-changing!
When teenager Max Kaufman is caught kissing a boy by his confused and angry father he is banished from the family home and forced onto the streets. Lonely, scared and depressed, Max turns to drugs and soon spirals into the life of an addict. It takes the help of a kind stranger to turn his life around.
Years later, Max returns to Seattle to attempt a reconciliation with his family and accepts a position as a nurse for multi-billionaire Edward Marsh of Pharma Pharmaceuticals, a vocal homophobic. Max would quit, but he is drawn to the dark, moody, and incredibly handsome Silas Marsh and can’t walk away.
As a teen, Silas battled with the loss of his mother, his father’s growing bitterness, raging hormones, and his sexuality. When he embarrasses his father by getting caught with the son of an acquaintance he is sent to a ‘boys camp’ in the arctic for 6 grueling months of torture. He returns a cold shell of himself and after a rough recovery, including a bout with addiction to pain meds, he buries himself in his studies and rises to the top in his father’s firm.
Then a new nurse is hired, a man Silas met at a NA meeting and all the emotions he was programmed to reject, the overwhelming attraction for another man- Max- threatens to destroy the tenuous peace with his father. At the same time, Silas learns of Pharma’s complicity in providing the drug to thousands that turned them into addicts- and for many, death. Love for his brother, who suffers from aspergers disease, stops him from leaving the Marsh heritage, and his father, behind.
The growing attraction between Silas and Max creates a world of problems for both men, but love happens whether we’re ready or not.
THERE ARE SO MANY LEVELS TO THIS STORY, I CAN’T ARTICULATE ALL OF THEM. SCOTT EXPERTLY TWINES MAX AND SILAS AROUND THE READERS HEART- YOU CAN’T HELP BUT HOPE FOR THESE TWO!
Our country has faced an opioid crisis for years now. Thousands of lives have been lost- good lives. Fathers, mothers, children who should have the care and respect they deserve.
While Canada accepts and welcomes gay marriage, I am very aware that we have a long way to go in the way we treat anyone perceived as ‘different’.
It is books written with heart and soul like Someday, Someday that will hopefully make a difference.
I give Someday, Someday 5+ lovely kisses- get out the tissues!
“I voluntarily read an ARC of this book which was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.”
Someday isn’t a day of the week..”
Emma Scott must be a beautiful soul. Her words are always feeling. Her stories intense in their empathy and emotion. Her characters are and could be your neighbor, boss, or that one you’ve always dreamed of from afar. They are real. You can feel the heat from their skin, the joy or sorrow emanating from their bones, the longing to be loved in your very marrow.
Someday, Someday is a subtle beauty. A dream, a wish upon a star…
I almost feel like an evil grinch when I sing in my head “someday never comes…” I want so badly to take all the people whose someday never comes and hold them. However, this book…is like a gift. It feels like an early Christmas present to me.
Someday, Someday is filled with hope. In a terrifying and abysmal place in his life, Silas is offered hope. Hope that is wrapped in barbed wire, frostbite, and electrical shocks. Hope that he will have to claw his way to and through to get but hope nonetheless.
“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.”
A quote from another book which plays an integral part of this story is also an amazing and wonderful point of view. It encompasses so much…freedom, a new outlook, love – all major necessities.
I know that as a straight woman I can’t possibly understand the fear, loathing, and hurt. But as a PERSON I can completely empathize. I understand what it’s like to be persecuted by your own family for who you love. I know what it’s like to be removed from your household for dating an “undesirable”. I know that love IS LOVE. You can’t control it. You can’t bend it toward your will. It simply is.
Emma Scott makes it FEEL right. Someday, Someday is a beautiful and sweet story with some serious “real world” problems. Its beauty in a cruel and ugly world. It’s also one helluva love story.
Someday, Someday is classy in its romance. For those that aren’t quite up to an erotic MM, you will be fine. This story is about love. Those that enjoy a roll in the sheets, don’t worry Emma Scott didn’t omit the sexual side of romance. It’s a beautiful truth, Someday, Someday. I’m glad she shared it with us.
6* Perfect Love Stars
You know when you read an Emma Scott book you will be transported into a world of heartfelt emotions. Her writing is flawless and deep. The story of Silas and Max was so much more than two people finding love and living happily ever after. Their journey towards one another was marred with the baggage of their pasts and the heartache each of them had to endure to overcome their scars.
The secondary characters to this story were pivotal in the healing and moving forward for both Silas and Max. I absolutely loved Eddie, he was such a breath of fresh air.
I highly recommend this pull at you heart strings read, it was everything and more. It is my favourite read for 2019.
Stayed up waaay too late in order to finish ‘Someday’.
If you choose to only read one book this year, may be this one! I absolutely ADORED this story.
Max and Silas unconditional love story is heartbreakingly beautiful.
There was a lot of ugly in the story. Unfortunately there’s still a lot of people not understanding that love is love. But this book is not only that. This book is hope and light. This book is about hitting rock bottom and survive, being true to yourself.
Emma Scott never disappoints with her exquisite writing.
If you never read a M/M book, please pick up this one.
I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into with Someday, Someday. I went in blind and I do not regret it. Silas and Max are two unique and incredibly different, but they have both suffered terribly. Parts of Silas’s story were horrific and I was truly appaled to learn it still happens. I hurt for him. I want to hold him and tell him he’s loved. Honestly I’m still a little shook up. I’m still crying. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone, so I’m going to keep it as simple as possible. Max has been on the streets, alone, addicted to drugs and having done things he’d rather forget. But he’s strong and a survivor. All he wants now is to help others who stuffer that terrible burden of addiction. He is offers a break from the Emergency room working for a wealthy man who is ill. What he does not expect is Silas, the man’s son. He can’t help his attraction, but knows it can’t possibly be reciprocated. Silas never imagined he would ever see the NA sponsors at his father’s mansion, let alone be working there, every day. His cold, cold exterior is melting around him and the terrible memories are worse than ever in his presence. Silas has suffers horrendously, he does not ever think he will be whole again. His world is falling apart, recant stay away from Max and his brother needs to get out from under his father’s iron fist. Full of emotional and heartbreaking circumstances, but also a stellar cast of characters that make it real and bring substance and support to these main characters. It’s beautiful. I enjoyed even the darkest of its moments and I cannot recommend it enough. My first by this author, but it will most certainly not be my last! Definitely a book that I would want to give way more than five stars I’m allowed to rate it!
I have never read this genre before, but when I heard that Emma was writing her first M/M book, I knew it would be the first one I’d read. Max was a character that stole my heart the moment Darlene saw him waiting for her in “Forever Right Now.” His personality, his sharp wit, the way he cared so deeply about others in need—it set him apart and made me long to know more. “Someday, Someday” was the perfect story for Max. Much like his life, his journey toward acceptance and happiness was not easy. There were way more than bumps in the road; there were gigantic potholes. And for Max’s love, Silas, the heartbreak was even more unbearable. I swear my heart split open every time Silas had a flashback from the past or an interaction with his father. I wanted to leap into the pages of the book and smack sense into SO many people in this story.
The champions in this book were the incredible side characters. Ramona, Darlene, the incomparable Eddie, David, Rachel, and so many more. This list of supporting characters is long and I’m so glad. Max and Silas deserved a family and they were surrounded by an amazing hodge podge of people who truly loved and accepted them. Their presence gave wings to Max & Silas’ story.
What Emma has done with this book is nothing short of extraordinary. She stripped away the stereotypes, the hatred, the bigotry, until all that was left was love in its purest form. Hatred is definitely the most unnatural of all emotions. Emma didn’t just shine a spotlight on love; she turned on the stadium lights and flooded the pages with it. I’m grateful to have been warmed by that light, to feel it deep within my core. And I’ll take it with me and hold this story close for a very long time, maybe, forever.
This is only my second Emma Scott book and I am blown away by this story. Max and Silas, her main characters , leap off the page and into your very heart and soul. The other characters are not far behind and the journey this author takes you on is powerful. I experienced every emotion while reading this – sadness, horror, anger and hope. I laughed, I despaired and I couldn’t put this down. Even if her other books have only a fraction of what this book gave me, they are well worth reading and I will be reading them. I cannot recommend this book enough. One of the best books I’ve read in … forever. I am a voracious reader but this one will stay with me. Thank you, Emma Scott!
Someday, Someday is the first book by Emma Scott that I have read. I fell in love with the characters.The love Max and Silas had was steamy and so sweet. Through it all you have hope and love . This story made me feel differemt, because of how everything is now, and I see That Emma put this story in an amazing concept. I cant wait to read more by her.