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To Have & To Keep Kindle Edition

by Ju Ephraime (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 21
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Sebastian Mills never imagines that his sweet, young bride, Rebecca, is anything other than what she has presented to him. They dated for six months before deciding to tie the knot. It was a beautiful ceremony, surrounded by friends and family. At the wedding dinner, everyone was impressed with his beautiful young bride. Everyone except his best friend, Christine, who apparently knew something about his wife that he didn't, but he was so in love he paid her no mind and left for his honeymoon. The night of the honeymoon, while they were checking into the hotel, his sweet, young wife disappeared into the night.
Now five years later, still reeling from her betrayal and enraged by her deceitful nature, he runs into her while on a job, only now she's no longer the sweet, young woman he married.
Trying to get at the truth, of why she left him reawakens their explosive passion... and now, it burns hotter than ever. But with five years of separation between them, Sebastian and Rebecca must trust each other in order to get to the root of the matter. Can they do this and still maintain the passion and love they once shared?

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    15 April 2017
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XFFKJP9
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ENVISION Business & Computer School Publishing (15 April 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2300 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 21

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Ju Ephraime

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Ju Ephraime writes steamy high heat romances, packed with emotions and strong alpha characters and always a wonderful, happy ever after. She has won several awards for her writing, and had even seconded in Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest, with her White Magic Woman. When not writing romance novels, Ju could be found writing children’s books, which includes her, Too-Clever series, a collection of ten children stories. Ju writes her children's stories under, Dr. Julia E. Antoine. These days she stays busy helping in the community and donating her services to a not-for-profit organization, which she helped establish. Presently, she resides in CT where she has lived with her family for the past thirty years. She still misses her time on the sunny Caribbean islands, but takes pleasure in using them as backdrops to some of her stories.

Visit her blog at http://www.juephraime.blogspot.com or her personal page at, http://www.juliaeantoine.com where you can sign up for e-mail updates and other goodies.

What others are saying about Ju's books:

"...steamy, provocative and fresh..." ~Midwest Book review

"a new level of heat!" ~Readers’ Favorite

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Anon Anon
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing Story
Reviewed in Australia on 15 April 2017
After dating only six months, Rebecca and Sebastian get married. He was blinded by love for his young bride but soon is faced with being abandoned.

Five years later they meet again, and Sebastian cannot deny the heat and passion for Rebecca is still there. He needs to find out why she left.

This author always writes intriguing tales. This romantic suspense story will draw you in and keep you turning the pages to find out what happens next. I’ve enjoyed every book I’ve read by this talented writer.
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Hugh
4.0 out of 5 stars An unusual romance
Reviewed in Australia on 22 April 2017
Written in narrative style, this light romance is a slow unfold. Explicit sex towards the end, plus the big reveal of the secret, come as a surprise.
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Fifty Sheds of Books
5.0 out of 5 stars To Have and to Keep
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2017
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To Have and to Keep is an excellent romance about second chances. The story centres on Sebastian and Rebecca, their brief marriage and their reunion five years later. There is a strong mystery element to the book, which is well developed with a satisfying payoff at the end.

There is passion within the pages as the main characters wrestle with the concept of trust. Those characters are well developed and believable, whilst the story moves along at a satisfying pace.

If you like your romances with elements of mystery, passion, humour and drama you will enjoy this book.
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Heather C.
4.0 out of 5 stars To have and To Keep
Reviewed in the United States on 16 April 2017
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This book was good, but it was missing something. It wasn’t making me want to devour it. I will say that while I thought it was like most romance books out there it did surprise me at the end when the big secret is revealed.

So the beginning was a lot of story while the ending was all sex. I liked that the beginning was a lot of story. I don’t like all sex in my books. So, for me I could have done without all the sex at the end. Or have it spread throughout the book.

This book was a fairly fast read. I did like the Rebecca though. She went through a lot and had to deal with it alone. She's stronger than most women and I liked that about her. I get tired of reading about women who are doormats.
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Layla Pinkett
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable romance with a twist!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2017
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I really enjoyed this story about Sebastian and Rebecca. After having not seen each other in 5 years, the pair try to re-establish their relationship after the latter runs away from her spouse without any explanation. It's only when they cross paths again, that something begins to show again. There is a wonderful twist that will make you think 'Arrh! Now I know why she ran away'. I like the way Seb handled the situation. The sex scenes were well handled, not too overpowering at all, which is what separates romance from erotica.

The book was well written, and kept me hooked.

I highly recommend it =)
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R. Norman
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Enjoyable Read
Reviewed in the United States on 24 April 2017
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I have read and enjoyed several of Ju Ephraime's books and was looking forward to this novel. The concept intrigued me and I do love a second chance romance.
Sebastian Mills has spent the last five years wondering what on earth happened to his wife, Rebecca, who disappeared on their wedding night. Okay, so they had only been dating six months, and his best friend, Christine, had hinted something wasn't right, but they were in love - surely that should have been enough to surmount any difficulty? Apparently not. Then, out of the blue, Rebecca reappears in his life, worse still, she will be working with him. Still furious at her desertion, Sebastian tries to avoid her, with some success, but even knowing she has destroyed any trust he had in her, the love and passion they shared burns as hot now as it did the night she vanished
Although stunned when the person she will be working with turns out to be Sebastian, the man from whom she fled five years ago, Rebecca wonders whether there is even the remotest chance of some kind of reconciliation. She has never stopped loving Sebastian, but she fears the secret she concealed and her subsequent behaviour may yet prove too much for him to forgive. Tentatively, she begins to reach out to him, knowing she is risking further heartbreak, but desperate to try.
Although this book was quite a quick read, it is well written with an interesting plot and nicely developed characters. Sebastian was wonderfully portrayed; you could feel how all these conflicting emotions were tearing him apart, and his reaction when he finally hears the truth is beautifully handled. Rebecca was a bit of an enigma, until you realise what has been haunting her and why she fled in the first place. The foil in the shape of Christine - the best friend who clearly loves Sebastian and hates Rebecca - adds another level to the maelstrom of emotions swirling around the central characters, and I was unsure how her part would play out. great plot, good writing which cleverly balances passion, heat and romance with loss of trust and the resultant simmering anger.

Loved it - for me, an easy 5 stars!
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A.L.
4.0 out of 5 stars Steamy romance with an unexpected twist.
Reviewed in the United States on 17 June 2017
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Why would a woman who professes to love her husband run away on their wedding night? That is the question the reader wants answered almost from the beginning - an answer guaranteed to surprise. This book held my interest and kept me turning pages. The characters were well developed. Sebastian's relationship with his friend Christine had me wondering what other surprises might be in store as well. A little more "showing" and a little less "telling" would have made this an even more enjoyable romance.
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