INTO HIS KEEPING - Gail Faulkner
Ellora’s Cave www.ellorascave.com
ISBN: 978-1-4199-1057-9
April 2007
Erotic Contemporary Romance
Rated: E-rotic

Connersville and Dallas, Texas - Present Day

It only took one look for eighteen year old Holdin Powell to know that Jill Taylor was the other half of his soul.  In no time, the dominant young man had staked his claim, and he and Jill began to explore their relationship.  When Jill disappeared without a trace, it destroyed Holdin, and he spent the next fifteen years working to stay in the public eye so that Jill would always know where he is.

Now that he’s retiring from pro-football, Holdin decides it’s time to finally let Jill go.  It’s been fifteen years since she left him, and she’s never once tried to contact him.  He’s revisiting their old haunts to say goodbye, including the soda fountain at the department store where they worked, when Holdin believes he’s seeing a ghost.  Jill is sitting at “their” table.

On the run from some bad guys, Jill and her father disappeared from Connersville only to crash several hours later.  When Jill woke up, her father was dead, she had no memory of her past, and she was pregnant.  She built a life for herself and her son, Drifter, but two weeks ago another accident caused her memory to return.  Jill needs another surgery, and has no idea what her memories will be afterwards, so she is determined to explain to Holdin what happened and introduce him to Drifter.  Her only wish is that Holdin accept Drifter; she never would have imagined that Holdin would still want anything to do with her.   Yet he’s just as possessive as he was when they were eighteen, and he has every intention of proving to Jill that she’s still his girl. 

INTO HIS KEEPING is an intense, sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes uplifting story.  The connection between Jill and Holdin is strong, even after fifteen years.  For Holdin, those fifteen years have been spent with the ghost of the girl he loves, and basically trying to get her attention.  Jill however, feels as if she left Holdin two weeks ago, not fifteen years.  Her feelings for him are just as strong as they were when she left him, and because of the loss of memory, she hasn’t had a chance to “get over” him.  Both the flashbacks of their former relationship and the interaction between them now are erotic and consuming.

Fifteen years has changed both Jill and Holdin, and they will need to learn about each other all over again, which is only one obstacle to a happy future for the couple.  Drifter, at fourteen, still feels the responsibility of the man of the house, and isn’t sure about Holdin at all.  There is also Jill’s surgery and medical problems, not to mention the past she was running from before she met Holdin in the first place.  An absorbing tale, INTO HIS KEEPING is a story I highly recommend.

Jennifer Bishop