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BOOK BLURB:
Four years ago Ryan Johnston was an artistically talented eighteen-year old hoping to go to art school. Trying to be true to himself he came out to his religious parents and was promptly disowned. To escape their threats to ruin his and his friends' lives he fled to Canada. Recently he found out that his twin sister Nicole is getting married to his best friend Peter Miller. He desperately wants to witness her special day. Risking exposure to his fanatical parents he travels back to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and makes his way to the church on the evening before the wedding.

BOOK REVIEW:
To Find And To Keep isn't so much a romance with a happy ending ~ it is a happy ending, all the way through.

Ryan and Daniel have both had a rough time of it in the past ~ Ryan was kicked out after coming out to his parents, and after hiding his crush on still-school-aged Ryan, Daniel had to live with Ryan's disappearance. The story really begins at the point when everything starts to go right for both of them as Ryan returns, determined to sneak a peek of his sister on her wedding day, and Daniel trips over the love of his life sitting on a park bench.

The focus of the story is on what happens after that magic moment when the two men find each other, which means that we get to see more of the detail of their happy ending than in a traditional romance. We get to see the misunderstandings, and them learning to communicate, the loving sex, the realizations of just how different their lives have been, and their growing understanding of how they can work things out and make their new relationship flourish. The result is a happily-ever-after you can really believe in.

This is pure, escapist romance, where the happily ever after begins on page six, and not only resolves the central love story, but also the family dynamic.

Yates resists the urge to make everything perfect, which might have tipped the story over into syrupy sweetness, but by the end of the story, the young man who started out all alone in a homeless shelter is happily ensconced with his true love, out and proud, with his twin sister and his high school best friend standing beside them: this is a warm, uplifting, read.

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