This is the start of a new series, I really love Sara Cate and her books, I just devour them. The same can be said for the rest of this series. This is a marriage of convenience, enemies to lovers, age gap, forced proximity romance. This essentially is a book created with all my favourite tropes in mind. Along with a hot Scottish accent and I swear I’d sell my soul for this book. This follows Sylvie and Killian, who are so broken and seeing them work through their individual trauma was so inspiring. Thank you for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinions.

I wasn't sure at first, it seemed as if it was going to be too predictable. However, I loved the main characters and there were plenty of surprises along the way. A good read.

Keep Me is a little different to what I was expecting - it was labelled as 'dark', 'bd sm' and 'erotica' with another author's review quote calling it 'super sexy', so I had an idea that it might be fairly depraved in the very best of ways. Especially as reference was made to Killian's 'raunchy house parties' in the blurb. In fact, it was quite different, and for a Sara Cate novel, fairly tame on the spice front (which is fine - she's allowed to write all sorts of different things!). There's a tiny bit of restraint, and one instance of Killian and Sylvie getting it on at a party - all of which works well with the story but surprised me with how limited it was given the labelling. Nor would I describe this as dark. Yes, Killian struggles with his demons and drinks heavily in the beginning, but we're not in the realms of true dark romance here in my opinion. As always, Sara Cate's writing is superb and I enjoyed the main narrative of the story despite not liking the characters very much! Sylvie is an entitled New York miss with mummy and daddy issues, she's downright unlikeable for the first third of the book and behaves like a teenager, not someone in their early- to mid-twenties. Killian is more interesting than a sweetheart, though I wondered why his family didn't just get him the therapy he so obviously needed rather than trying to take his house away from him in such an odd way. I was also a tad frustrated by Killian (a born and raised Scotsman who didn't seem to watch TV and never left his house) using occasional Americanisms in general speech which felt like poor research. This leads me to the fact that I hardly felt like this book was predominantly set in Scotland, because of their seclusion in Killian's manor house, they could have been anywhere which is a shame and feels like a lost opportunity. Overall, this was a really mixed bag for me, somewhere between 2.5 and 3 out of 5 stars. My biggest issue was not connecting with either character, though particularly Sylvie. I can't say I loved this but I certainly didn't hate it either and I'm sure others will feel more positively than I did! Thanks to NetGalley, Sourcebooks UK and the author for the ARC, this is my honest opinion.