In Your Dreams (When in Rome #4)

Author: Sarah Adams Title: In Your Dreams Publisher: Dell Date Published: 12/30/2025

Read Dates: 12/12/2025- 12/14/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

In Your Dreams is a dual POV, brother's best friend, small town romance. Madison has always been a little chaotic, chasing dreams and looking for adventure. But after a disappointing experience in culinary school in New York, she’s ready to return to the comfort and stability of Rome, Kentucky. James, who has been secretly in love with Madison for years, offers her a perfect opportunity: the farm-to-table restaurant he’s opening to provide a source of income that will hopefully save his family farm. Madison and James are navigating their newly developed friendship, while both hiding their feelings and fears of failure until they realize they make a great team! I loved this one! I’ve been reading the series out of order (I’ve read the second book and now this one, book four), but they work well as stand-alones, and I’m excited to go back to the beginning. I loved how James helped Madison find her confidence and stand in her own. I loved seeing Madison learn to manage both her ADHD and anxiety. I thought both were well represented. Definitely a well-done read!

Madison Walker left Rome, Kentucky, determined to prove she could make it in the culinary world. But after years of chasing success in New York, all she has to show for it is a shattered confidence and a desperate need for a fresh start. Coming home isn’t part of the plan—until an unexpected job offer lands in her lap, giving her a chance to rebuild everything she’s lost: the head chef position at a new farm-to-table restaurant in her hometown. The only catch? It comes from James Huxley, owner of Huxley Farm, her brother’s best friend . . . and the last person she wants to work for.

James has always played it safe, keeping his head down and doing what’s expected of him in the family business and never contemplating anything different—until now when Madison’s happiness is on the line. He’s loved her quietly for years, knowing she’s never seen him as more than an annoyance. Now that she’s back, he’s determined to change that–even if it means he can only ever be her friend. The one problem? His charming, wildly successful younger brother, Tommy, seems determined to win her over first.

Then Tommy is called away on business and Madison and James are tasked with launching the dreamy farm-to-table restaurant on their own. But as the town starts meddling in their relationship, Tommy’s pursuit of Madison grows more relentless, and Madison’s fears threaten to hold her back, keeping things strictly professional becomes impossible. And when an unexpected disaster on opening night collides with a long-simmering sibling feud, both Madison and James will have to face their biggest insecurities—and decide if love is worth the risk or if some dreams are safer left untouched.