Katherine Owen

Novelist ~ Writer of the dark, angsty love stuff (stories), champagne aficionado, expert finder, secret keeper

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The Image Keeper – The Love Story Continues – Hollywood Hearts 3

Title: THE IMAGE KEEPER 

Series: Hollywood Hearts 3

The Love Story Continues… 

 

She’s the heiress who thinks she’s not enough for his fame. He’s the Hollywood star humbled by her legacy. Three days to get married. One failing heart. And the fear that love this fast can’t possibly be real.

Isla Ryder is finally returning to the Connecticut estate she inherited after a plane crash stole her family nine years ago. Three days to confront the ghosts. Three days to plan a wedding. Three days before she marries Roman Lysander, Hollywood’s golden boy, in front of everyone who will wonder: What does he see in her?

But there’s something Isla isn’t saying: for weeks, she’s been hiding symptoms she can’t explain. Breathlessness. Fatigue. A heart that misfires. Days before the wedding, the diagnosis lands—and her doctors aren’t sure she should even walk down the aisle, let alone say “I do.”

Roman refuses to leave her side. Isla’s family demands a prenup. The wedding plans implode.

Now Isla has to decide: keep running from the fear that she’ll never be enough, or believe Roman when he says she’s all he needs—even sick, even scared, even imperfect.

Perfect for readers who love: Epic romance sagas like Outlander and the Crossfire series—multi-book arcs with the same couple that span years, not just pages.The Image Keeper is Book Three in Katherine Owen’s Hollywood Hearts series—an angsty, deeply emotional contemporary romance about homecoming, health, and the moment you stop protecting yourself from the very person who’s been fighting to love you all along.

The Image Keeper is the third book in the Hollywood Hearts series—Isla and Roman finally say, “I do,” but their journey together is just beginning. Their story continues in THE IMAGE TAKER (Book 4, coming 2026).

Perfect for readers who love: Epic romance sagas like Outlander and the Crossfire series—multi-book arcs with the same couple that span over time, not just pages.

This series must be read in order:

1 The Image Maker—Isla & Roman’s 48-hour, no-going-back love story begins on Malibu beach.

2 The Image Breaker—When a life-threatening illness tests their love and Hollywood power plays push their romance to the brink.

3 The Image Keeper*—Coming home, saying “yes,” and discovering what it really costs to keep.

*This is Book 3 in the Hollywood Hearts series—Isla and Roman finally say “I do,” but their journey together is just beginning.

Their story continues in THE IMAGE TAKER (Book 4, coming 2026).

 

“For readers who loved Outlander’s epic multi-book romance and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’s Hollywood glamour—a sweeping celebrity romance saga about old money, new fame, and what happens when love moves faster than fear. Book 3 delivers the wedding; Books 4-6 deliver the marriage.”

 

Tropes: Celebrity romance, billionaire heiress, forced proximity, chronic illness representation, old money vs new fame, homecoming, family legacy, near-death experience, Connecticut coastal estate, wedding planning under pressure

 

 

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"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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Riding With the Queen
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Year of Fog
Normal People Don't Live Like This
April & Oliver
The Truth About Delilah Blue
The Gargoyle
Faking It
Blueberry Truth
Falling Under
Small As A Mustard Seed
Strange Flesh
Easy
Slammed
Gone Girl
Reason to Breathe
Barely Breathing
Kindle Single: Injured Reserves
The Sea of Tranquility


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