Ariella’s Keeper

1. Is Ariella’s Keeper a standalone or part of a series?

Ariella’s Keeper is Book 1 of the Divinity Healers series, which is part of the larger Divinity Worlds universe. While each book delivers a complete romance with its own happily ever after, the Divinity Corporation storyline weaves through the connected sub-series.

2. Does Ariella’s Keeper end on a cliffhanger?

No. Ariella’s Keeper delivers a complete happily ever after for Dr. Sebastjan Walter and Ariella. There are interconnected larger themes that continue through the Divinity Healers series.

3. What’s the heat level?

Scorching. Ariella’s Keeper features explicit on-page intimacy, forced-marriage portal heat, and an off-plane bride who finds the bargain better than she expected.

4. Who is the narrator of Ariella’s Keeper?

Narrated by Rebecca Cook. Fun fact: she got Michelle a role as an apocalyptic refugee on SyFy’s Z Nation. She is also known for her work on Jennifer Ashley’s Immortals: The Calling.

5. Who is this book for?

Fans of Jayne Castle’s Harmony novels and Susan Grant’s sci-fi dimensional romances will love Ariella’s Keeper. It is a portal-style alternate-reality romance with a forced arranged marriage, a hero who never expected to want his bride, and a heroine held as the Medical Supreme’s ward who finds her own freedom in the bargain.

6. What is the Divinity Healers series about?

Divinity Healers follows characters bound to a sterile, medically advanced parallel-universe Earth, where everyone is either a doctor or a “Sans” (a non-doctor). The Divinity Corporation moves people across dimensions for the medical plane’s purposes, with each book delivering a complete romance inside the shared Divinity Worlds universe.

7. How are Divinity Warriors and Divinity Healers connected?

Both sub-series exist within the larger Divinity Worlds universe through the Divinity Corporation, which moves people between parallel-universe Earths. Divinity Warriors is set on a medieval-style plane locked in perpetual war. Divinity Healers is set on a sterile, medically advanced plane where everyone is either a doctor or a “Sans” (a non-doctor). The Corporation has different reasons for going to each, but the dimensional architecture and Corporation lore tie the two sub-series together.

8. When was Ariella’s Keeper first published?

Ariella’s Keeper was first published in December 2009 by Ellora’s Cave and was later reissued by The Raven Books LLC in May 2013. The audiobook narrated by Rebecca Cook released on August 12, 2021.

Part of the Divinity World:

• Lilith Enraptured
• Fighting Lady Jayne
• Keeping Paige
• Taking Karre
• Ariella’s Keeper
• Seducing Cecilia
• Linnea’s Arrangement

CW: Michelle M. Pillow’s books contain adult subject matter, graphic violence, and are not suitable for all audiences. 

Book Heat Levels: Scorching

Reader Notes: Ariella’s Keeper is the first book in the Divinity Healers series installment, but comes after the Divinity Warriors installment. You can read it before, or after that series and it won’t be confusing.