Wade Brennan slides the contract across his kitchen table. Twelve
months. One hundred thousand dollars. Everything he asks, no
questions, no refusal.
I should walk away. But my parents are dead, I'm drowning in debt,
and I have nowhere else to go. So I pick up the pen.
"What does 'everything' mean?" I ask.
His gray eyes meet mine, steady and unflinching. "Exactly what it
sounds like."
I'm nineteen. He's fifty. My dead aunt's husband. A stranger
offering me salvation with strings I don't understand.
I think it's just housework. Ranch labor. Earning my keep for a year
and walking away free. I'm wrong.
Wade Brennan doesn't want a housekeeper. He wants someone to fill the
silence his late wife left behind. Someone to warm his bed. Someone
young and soft and completely under his control.
He takes my virginity on New Year's Day. He puts his baby inside me
three months later. And somewhere between the contract and the
conception, between being owned and being cherished, I fall
irrevocably in love with the man who bought a year of my life.
Now the contract is ending. The baby is here. And Wade is handing me
a check for one hundred thousand dollars, enough to disappear and
start over anywhere I want.
There's only one problem. I don't want to leave.
I want the man who claimed me. The ranch that became my home. The
family we built out of desperation and need and a love that shouldn't
exist but does.
The question is whether Wade wants me to stay, or whether I was only
ever a contract to him, fulfilled and free to go.
His to Keep is a standalone dark age-gap romance featuring an extreme
age difference (19F/50M), a contract relationship, dubious consent, a
possessive older hero, breeding and pregnancy themes, forced proximity
on an isolated Wyoming ranch, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Contains explicit sexual content and is intended for readers 18+.
