What started off as a fling with Ian Sinclair is now a full-on love affair, and Nina Valentine can hardly believe her good fortune. Life with Ian gets more delicious every day, and after years of struggle all she has to worry about is her art.
But it’s not long before her doubts resurface and she’s once again wondering if she fits in Ian’s world. As generous as he is, she hates taking his money, and everyone from her own mother to Ian's friends seems to think less of her for it.
Alone in their little love nest the two of them make sense, but as soon as they let the outside world in, it all starts to fall apart. People are starting to talk, and she doesn’t like what they’re saying. Even worse, she’s starting to believe them.
Keep Me is a 28,000 word novella. As the sequel to Tempt Me, it’s best enjoyed after reading Tempt Me first.
Isabel began reading romances at the age of fourteen. That's the year her grandmother came to visit, bringing with her a shopping bag filled with (very tame) Harlequin and Silhouette romance novels. Isabel was immediately and forever hooked. What could be better than experiencing all that lust and new love just by reading a book?
She earned her MFA in poetry, but meeting her soon-to-be-husband made her too happy to write her usual melancholy poems. It was time to try her hand at writing the kinds of books she’d been gobbling up for years. Now she writes steamy contemporary romances about men and women discovering their true selves while navigating their way to great sex and true love.
In her spare time, Isabel watches British mysteries, plays disc golf (it’s a thing), and religiously re-watches Dirty Dancing. She lives in Connecticut with her conveniently tall, dark, and handsome husband.
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This is a very short book- only 130 odd pages. Apparently it's a sequel, though I didn't read the first one and I didn't feel like I missed anything. I think that perhaps this sequel should have been combined with the first "book" so that it made an average length read.
I would consider this lusty-light. This truly was a fantasy story in the sense that I perceived this as a woman's ideal romance. The characters were so wrapped up in each other from beginning to end and there was never anything but complete lust and love. By the end it felt like a rehash scenario of Pretty Woman but it was still a fun and fluffy quick read. There weren't too many in-depth sex scenes but what was in there was still nice to imagine.
Found the first book "Tempt Me" in iBooks. It was free. So, I thought, why not. Loved the story and characters. Just finished the sequel, "Keep Me" and liked it even more. As of now, I've downloaded all this author's books and will look forward to any new books she writes. This coming from a horror reading fanatic. Who knew?
I liked this book because the characters were relatable. Who doesn't want to find Prince charming? Who isn't secure? Who isn't scared? Because the people in the story were dealing with these things that I deal with, it sucked me in!