Book Review and ARC Giveaway: SEALed Forever by Mary Margret Daughtridge

This is a definite "grabs you" enjoyable read!

SEALed Forever by Mary Margret Daughtridge

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (May 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402246196
• ISBN-13: 978-1402246197
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches 

     Genre: Contemporary Romance
     My Rating: 4.75 of 5.0

Product Description

He's got a living, breathing dilemma...

In the midst of running an undercover CIA mission, Navy SEAL Lt. Garth Vale finds an abandoned baby, and his superiors sure don't want to know about it. The only person who can help him is the beautiful new doctor in town, but she's got another surprise for him...

She's got a solution...at a price...

Dr. Bronwyn Whitescarver has left the frantic pace of big city ER medicine for a small town medical practice. Her bags aren't even unpacked yet when gorgeous, intense Garth Vale shows up on her doorstep in the middle of the night with a sick baby...

But his story somehow doesn't add up, and Bronwyn isn't quite sure who she's saving-the baby, or the man...

Review: Now here is a book that wrapped me in from beginning to end!
The book opens with a near death and out of body experience for SEAL officer, Garth Vale. As he is recuperating he is relegated to a very out of the way, low intensity job maintaining a small airstrip near a small southern town. He is put in a difficult situation when he finds an abandoned baby on an airplane.

Bronwyn has decided to leave the rat race of a city hospital ER practice to set up an “at home” practice in a small town.  She is determined to set down deep roots even if the house she has been loaned is a little creaky scarey.  Bronwyn is tripping over her moving boxes on a dark stormy night when rugged Garth shows up at her front door with a baby. He needs her help but isn’t able to give her all the facts considering his confidentiality status. Bronwyn is quick to help the child medically but it takes some convincing for her not to report the neglect.

I was caught by the strength and integrity in both the hero and heroine. I was also captured by the fact that Garth quickly determines that Bronwyn is the woman for him. She may not meet his “list” of qualities for a naval officer’s wife but he is sure he can woe her and find a way to make her willing to follow him to new base assignments.

Garth’s friends help to open Bronwyn’s eyes to see the possibilities of paranormal events and her friend JJ (from SEALed With a Ring) encourages her to recognize her gifts as a healer, not just a doctor. Garth is willing to accept her too, unexplained intuitions and all, and that means a lot. Still, she can’t commit her heart and life to a man who will always be going off and putting himself at risk.

I’m not quite sure what made this book so captivating but each time I picked it up I had read half an hour before I knew it and I was reluctant to put it down. Even my daughter picked it up and after reading one page said, “I want to read this one.”  The pacing is fast in short chapters, which I like. I also enjoy the SEAL or Art of War quotes at the beginning of each chapter. The story is not an action piece but rather character driven. The plot, though likeable, might be considered a bit weak as the dilemma is solved almost too easily in the end. Even so, the southern charm, the SEAL experience and the doctor expertise all blended well with a lovely, sensual romance. I highly recommend this for a quick, enjoyable read.

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Winner of ARC of SEALed with a Ring by Mary Margret Daughtridge!

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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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