Theirs to Keep

Tangled Hearts, Book 1

By: Maya Banks

Narrated by: Christian Fox

Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

When Cade Walker and Merrick Sullivan find Elle hiding in the cabinet of a gun store, they know they can't just walk away from the fragile woman with no memory of who she is or who tried to kill her. Merrick is training for the title shot in the heavyweight division as a mixed martial artist and can't afford distractions, but neither can he turn his back on the woman who tugs at his heartstrings. Elle feels safe with her two protectors, and the longer she spends with them, the more she realizes that she has no desire to remember her past - not when it could compromise her future with Cade and Merrick. Cade has his own set of issues when it comes to Elle, and it quickly becomes clear to the two men that for the first time in their friendship, a woman is coming between them. But what if they just kept her there? Between them. Where she belongs.

©2013 Maya Banks (P)2013 Tantor

Different and Interesting

I don’t read a lot of Maya Banks’ novels so I can’t comment on the complaints of repetitive plots. This one had a lot of promise but it was a little slow.

I liked that Elle was given plenty of time to heal from the brutal assault/rape that she doesn’t remember before any kind of romance happened. Her body needed to heal even when her mind didn’t. That being said, the flashes of memory were few and far in-between and very frustrating.

I also found it odd she was having flashes of a man who she knew she loved, and who loved her, but she continued on with her relationship with Cade and Merrick. As a woman, I didn’t find that believable. I think it would have been better to have her resolve the past before she committed to her future, after all, who’s to say she’d still want to be with Cade and Merrick when/if she remembers or learns about this man?

In closing, I feel the need to warn any future readers – This book ends with a cliffhanger and there is NO SEQUEL. The title has trilogy in it and I’ve read the plot line to book 2 and the title of book 3 but as of this date in 2019, 6 years later, neither has been published, nor are there any release dates (on the official website for the author)

Not Bad

In spite of the pain she suffered. Her rescuers really made up for it. There was a happy ending.

redhat queen

Wow! This was a great book Maya. I have read quite a few of your books. Each one that I’ve read were unbelievably great. I really loved this story. It was so heart warming. How two rough looking men took care of ELL. I will recommend this book to my friends. I love Christian as your narrator.

Ends on cliff hanger with no follow up Books.

Really good book. However it ends on a cliff hanger and there are no more books in the series. So I’m disappointed I didn’t get the rest of the story.

Great beginning...

Really wish the author would finish the trilogy. This is a fantastic beginning but it needs an ending.

Good story

Left me hanging please write another!
Good story kept me interested till the end. The plot n characters were believable and loving.

Not for me

It’s a no for me. This book was just not good, it was slow I couldn’t connect with the characters. There was no genuine love there I didn’t enjoy it at all.

Wonderful book!

Absolutely loved this book and the three leading characters! Wish there was a second book so we could find out about Elle’s past and see more of her future with Cade and Merrikk!

There is no second book

I have always loved Maya Banks.
This book is very very well written and I would’ve loved to know how it ended.
However the author did not continue the series so I guess I get to make my own ending.
It still ends happily it’s just that it leaves you wondering about certain things.
It’s still a very very good read and I would recommend it just don’t hope for another addition this was written in 2013 and there hasn’t been an announcement of a second book or the third book.

Cliffhanger with no follow up

WARNING: there is no follow up to this cliffhanger!

I really liked this book right up to the cliffhanger ending. Interesting characters and plot. Some sexy times that were pretty hot. A mystery at the centre of the story (that is not resolved).

As far as I can see, there was a trilogy planned but never published. Looking on the author's website and others, book 1 (Theirs to Keep) was published in 2013 with promises to publish the follow up (Always Mine) by Oct 2015, which never happened due to health issues / surgeries over 3 years and the impact the down time had on the author's legal obligations for other books under contract. The last update I could find was in 2016 and I'm writing this in 2018, so I'm not holding my breath.

Apparently, the unfinished book 2 follows the story of police officer Morgan Beckett, who was Elle's Dom (or Master maybe) and was devastated when she disappeared a while before. Morgan sees Elle, Cade and Merrick when they travel to his town to investigate one of Elle's recovered memories. Morgan confronts her, she runs, he finds them and talks with the boys to find out what happened and fill them in on what he knows. Morgan still wants Elle. He works together with Cade and Merrick to find the man who tried to murder her. The bad guy also finds out Elle is still alive somehow and all 3 men try to protect Elle from him.

Book 3 is called "Forever Ours" but there's no description, so it's anyone's guess if Morgan becomes number 4 in the menage or not.

This is the main risk of reading self-published authors. C'est la vie.