Making a Murderer meets Scandal in this story of police corruption, family secrets, and illicit affairs from bestselling author K.A. Tucker, celebrated for her “propulsive plot twists and searing seduction” (USA TODAY).

Noah Marshall has known a privileged and comfortable life thanks to his mother, the highly decorated chief of the Austin Police Department. But all that changes the night she reveals a skeleton that's been rattling in her closet for years, and succumbs to the guilt of destroying an innocent family's life. Reeling with grief, Noah is forced to carry the burden of this shocking secret.

Gracie Richards wasn't born in a trailer park, but after fourteen years of learning how to survive in The Hollow, it's all she knows anymore. At least here people don't care that her dad was a corrupt Austin cop, murdered in a drug deal gone wrong. Here, she and her mother are just another family struggling to survive...until a man who clearly doesn't belong shows up on her doorstep.

Despite their differences, Noah and Gracie are searching for answers to the same questions, and together, they set out to uncover the truth about the Austin Police Department's dark and messy past. But the scandal that emerges is bigger than they bargained for, and goes far higher up than they ever imagined.

Complex, gritty, sexy, and thrilling, Keep Her Safe solidifies K.A. Tucker's reputation as one of today's most talented new voices in romantic suspense. 


Mystery. Suspense. Light romance. Corruption. Twists. Tangled web of lies.

5 Stars for the plot elements. Keep Her Safe had all of these and so much more. I was completely and utterly hooked and stayed up to the wee hours of the night devouring the pages, trying to figure out what in the world was going on. I was guessing and second guessing and triple guessing and still... I had an inkling of the who done it, but my suspicions didn't play out the way I thought they were going to. Well at least not to that extent. Which left me shocked when I closed the book. That doesn't happen often. Way to go, Ms. Tucker!

5 Stars for the perfect balance of crime and extortion mixed with the slow growing romance. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the minimal sex scenes. When reading a suspense novel, even if it is also co-labeled romance, I want the book to focus on the plot full of scandal and wickedness. I want the intrigue that comes with trying to figure out the mystery aspect. And I want the apprehension to keep me on the edge of my seat and not be overshadowed by bedroom antics. This book pulled all of my expectations off flawlessly.

4.5 Stars for the characters. I've read other books by this author and as before, Tucker's characters were well developed and rich with personality. Both Noah and Grace were well fleshed out, as were the criminals. It says something when even the bad guys have you enthralled.

6 HUGE Stars for my favorite character. I loved, loved, loved Noah and my heart hurt for him. So much betrayal and deception surrounding him. Everything he thought he knew about his life blown to pieces within a matter of weeks. I seriously just wanted to continuously hug him. And it didn't matter what was thrown at him, while he was trying to sort through the hot mess of his mother's life and his was crumbling, he was a strong shoulder for Grace. He had some of the hardest decisions to make throughout this book, ones that affected his morals and inner peace, and yet he always tried to do the right thing, even it didn't seem like it. I know how I felt reading his journey, I can't even imagine how Ms. Tucker felt writing it.

4.5 Stars for the overall story. K. A. Tucker can write her butt off, there is no doubt about that. I can't believe I waited so long to start this. I read the reviews before hand and they kind of deterred me, so I ended up putting it off.  And I am kicking myself for it now because this book was everything.

Keep Her Safe comes as a high rec from me! 

K.A. Tucker is the author of He Will Be My Ruin and the Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series. She currently resides outside of Toronto with her husband, two beautiful girls, and a Chug.