She woke up in his cabin. He says someone killed her sister. He says they're coming for her next. He says he's the only thing keeping her alive. He won't tell her his real name. Mara Castellano was an art professor with a dead sister and a life she was barely holding together. Now she's trapped in a remote mountain cabin with a man built like a weapon and a silence that fills every room he enters. He cooks her eggs. He watches her sleep. He has six loaded guns staged through the house and he's expecting company. Silas doesn't explain. He protects. With a scarred body, a classified past, and hands steady enough to kill but gentle enough to cup the back of her skull. He loved a woman who looked like Mara. That woman is dead. And the people who killed her are circling closer every night. Every door in the cabin is unlocked. Every window opens. She can leave whenever she wants. She doesn't want to. And that's the most dangerous thing of all. KEPT is Book 1 in the Keeping Her in Crimson trilogy. Captive romance. Forced proximity. Mountain cabin isolation. Morally grey military hero. Possessive/obsessive protector. Touch her and die. Grief-bonded. Dual POV. Explicit content. No fade to black. Content captivity, graphic intimacy, violence, breath play, chase/primal play, grief, and a hero who will burn the world down for one woman. Reader discretion advised.