Mandy Gafford has spent her life running from a past she can’t remember—and a father who won’t let her forget she belongs to him.
Dragged from town to town by Wylie, the cruel and unpredictable man she calls daddy, Mandy knows better than to ask questions. Questions make Wylie angry. Questions uncover things he has worked too hard to bury.
But when a roofing job brings them to Mobile, Alabama, something shifts. Streets she has never walked feel strangely familiar. A tunnel sends fear racing through her. Old buildings, shaded roads, and fragments of memory stir inside her like warnings from a life stolen long ago.
Then she meets Trey Cunningham.
Kind, steady, and impossible to forget, Trey sees more in Mandy than the shame Wylie has beaten into her. For the first time, Mandy dares to believe she may be loved, wanted, even cherished. But Wylie sees the danger in that kind of hope—and before Trey can save her, Mandy vanishes.
Years pass. Trey never forgets the girl who disappeared. Mandy never forgets the boy who called her worth keeping.
When Mandy is drawn back to Mobile, the secrets surrounding her childhood begin to surface. Why does the city feel like home? What happened to the mother she can’t remember? And what is Wylie so desperate to keep hidden?
As buried truths rise from the shadows, Mandy must decide whether love is worth the risk of uncovering a past that may destroy everything she thought she knew.
The Keeper is a Southern Christian romantic suspense novel about hidden identity, lost love, buried secrets, and the grace that calls the forgotten by name
