Katherine Owen

The Image Keeper

FAME & INFAMY ~ 3

By Katherine Owen

Three days.

One wedding.

One heart that might not hold.

Isla Ryder can manage anyone’s narrative except her own.

After years of avoiding the Connecticut estate she inherited after the plane crash that killed her family, Isla is finally going home. Not quietly. Not privately. Not as the orphaned heiress everyone still remembers.

This time, she is returning as the woman about to marry Roman Lysander.

Hollywood’s golden boy. The world’s beautiful obsession. The man who fell for her fast, stayed when everything broke, and now wants to make her his wife in front of everyone.

Three days to face the house that still knows all her ghosts.

Three days to survive the family legacy waiting behind its doors.

Three days to plan a wedding the whole world will watch.

And three days to endure the question Isla cannot stop asking herself:

What does he see in her?

But Isla is hiding something that won’t stay hidden. For weeks, her body has been warning her: breathlessness, fatigue, a heart that misfires when she needs it most. Days before the ceremony, the diagnosis lands, and even her doctors aren’t sure she should walk down the aisle.

Roman refuses to leave her side.

Her family demands a prenup.

The wedding begins to unravel.

And Isla has to decide what scares her more: losing control, or finally letting herself be loved in full view of everyone.

Because love this fast does not just ask for everything.

It demands to be witnessed.

The Image Keeper is Book Three in Fame & Infamy, an emotionally intense one-couple saga. Isla and Roman’s story continues across the series and should be read in order.

THE IMAGE KEEPER ~3 FAME & INFAMY. The series must be read in order.

Love asks for everything.

What happens when you finally answer?

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Katherine’s quotes

"You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks.
Now, I’m curious. She hasn’t spoken for the last ten minutes of the drive. “What?”
“Too much air blows out the fire. Too much water destroys it.”
I nod trying to determine what she’s really comparing us to. “The idea would be to keep the flame going, right. For years?” She nods. “Like a relationship. Like a marriage.” She cringes at the word marriage. Noted. “So you need the air—to stay constant—to fan the flames of the fire, and you know, grasshopper,” I smile at her and catch sight of the corners of her mouth turning slightly upward in response to the endearment, “a hot enough fire will burn water, so you have to be careful with the water too.”
“That I do know,” she says softly. “So that’s the truth about air and water.” She sighs deep.
“Which is?”
“It’s hard to maintain the balance to keep the fire going. You have to fan the flames without putting it out with too much water. But too little water will burn the fire right up. Too much fire. Too much destruction. We’re out of control.”
“You’re talking in circles,” I say.
“No. That’s us,” she says with certainty."— Katherine Owen

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