Review and Giveaway - SEALed with a Ring by Mary Margret Daughtridge

SEALed with a Ring by Mary Margret Daughtridge
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (March 2, 2010)
ISBN-10: 1402236980
ISBN-13: 978-1402236983
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Heat Rating: Spicy
Price: $7.99
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Rating 4.0

Product Description

She’s got it all…except the one thing she needs most
Smart, successful businesswoman JJ Caruthers has a year to land a husband or lose the empire she’s worked so hard to build. With time running out, romance is not an option, and a military husband who is always on the road begins to look like the perfect solution…

He’s a wounded hero with an agenda of his own
Even with the scars of battle, Navy SEAL medic Davy Graziano is gorgeous enough to land any woman he wants, and he’s never wanted to be tied down. Now Davy has ulterior motives for accepting JJ’s outrageous proposal of marriage, but he only has so long to figure out what JJ doesn’t want him to know…

Review: This is a good solid romance read!

JJ is the savvy boss lady who is responsible not only for the financial welfare of the family company, but for the welfare of the employees too.  Although she couldn’t control her distant parents as a child, her grandfather encouraged her interest in the dealership and she learned that she could control the business and do so successfully.  That is why it is a betrayal for her grandfather to issue an ultimatum: marry within a year or he will dismantle the company rather than letting her take over.  He thinks he is doing the right thing to get her to have a relationship and realize that life is more than business success.  But to JJ he has just become another relationship she can’t control.

Davy has a past that includes easily getting any woman he wants. He is a dedicated seal and willing to die if that’s what it takes.  When he returns with an injury that causes amnesia he is not about to let anyone know! Problem is, he has forgotten having met JJ the previous year.

JJ figures he just has so many easy conquests, what was one more?  She isn’t going to remind him of what was a total lapse of judgment, not to mention control, on her part! On the other hand, if she has to be married for a year maybe a fellow who will be away on mission or who doesn’t care what bed he’s in, as long as he is discreet, might do the trick. The problem for JJ is that Davy may be “easy” but he is not about to take commitment lightly.  He is going to insist on a real marriage, not just a convenient,"name only" arrangement.

Thinking back on the “good time” JJ had with Davy that one night, it doesn’t take JJ long to decide she may as well have some fun benefits from the marriage!   A quote on the author site sort of sums up this relationship: “Sometimes you get what you bargain for. Sometimes...you get a whole lot more.”

The two personalities are strong and can compliment each other if each will accept the strengths of the other.  The dialogue is good and the sensual tension and bed scenes are spicy!  The secondary characters, JJ's Grandfather and helper Ham, and Davy's Seal mates,  all fit perfectly with the plot.  It all wraps up to a charming and fun romance.  This is part of a series with the Seal heroes and the other books look like fun too.

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Thank you to Danielle at Sourcebook for this ARC which I am offering to a lucky winner!


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