title: Kept
author: Bradley, Sally
description: "Gutsy and fast-paced."-Laura Frantz, author of
  Love's Reckoning
   "One of the most surprising and best books I've read this year."-MaryLu Tyndall, best-selling author of Legacy of the King's Pirates series Life has taught Miska Tomlinson that there are no honorable men. Her womanizing brothers, her absentee father, and Mark, the married baseball player who claims to love her-all have proven undependable. But Miska has life under control. She runs her editing business from her luxury condo, stays fit with daily jogs along Chicago's lakefront, and in her free time blogs anonymously about life as a kept woman. Enter new neighbor Dillan Foster. Between his unexpected friendship and her father's sudden reappearance, Miska loses control of her orderly life. Her relationship with Mark deteriorates, and Miska can't help comparing him to Dillan. His religious views are so foreign, yet the way he treats her is something she's longed for. But Dillan discovers exactly who she is and what she has done. Too late she finds herself longing for a man who is determined to never look her way again. When her blog receives unexpected national press, Miska realizes her anonymity was an illusion. Caught in a scandal about to break across the nation, Miska wonders if the God Dillan talks about would bother with a woman like her-a woman who's gone too far and done too much. "Vibrant characters, compelling questions, modern-day issues...
  Kept
   is a contemporary Christian classic along the lines of
  Redeeming Love
  . Impossible to put down, this story pulls us into the heart of Chicago and shows us how God's hand can work, even when we repeatedly make the wrong choices. Sally Bradley's voice is gripping and clear, and her debut is a shining beacon of how very relevant Christian fiction can be."-Heather Day Gilbert, author of
  God's Daughter
   and
  Miranda Warning
  .