March 3rd, 2010 — 4.5 Stars, ARC, Africa, Contemporary, D-F, Executive, Headaches, Heiress, Marriage of Convenience, Medical, Memory Loss, Scarred Hero, Soldier, Travel, United States of America, Wartime
Mary Margret Daughtridge comes out with another fantastic SEAL story. It’s got everything! A smart savvy heiress heroine to a car empire in desperate need of a name-only husband and a hero with partial amnesia, headaches, scarring, charisma, good looks, and skilled in bed! Yum. Yum. Yum. See, I told you it had everything. Wow!
Davy Graziano is a Navy Seal corpsman. The quote at the beginning of the novel gives real insight to Davy as a hero. He figures he will die in service for the Teams and when he doesn’t he’s adrift. It doesn’t help that his mother passed away shortly after visiting him in the hospital. The situation makes him feel that his mother traded her life for his with God and he doesn’t know what to do with his second chance at life. He wants to continue being a Navy Seal but a head wound resulted in brain trauma. He’s forgetful of things he knows he knows and it’s frustrating to no end.
One thing he forgets is JJ Caruthers. Twice. Poor schmuck. Jane Jessup however is very relieved. The more she learns about Navy Seals and Davy in particular the more she sees them and him as the perfect solution to her husbandless problem. JJ contracts Davy into being her husband in an effort to get one over her grandfather who is trying to manipulate her to his liking. Davy won’t take her original offer and renegotiates the terms to his liking but as the marriage unfolds Davy just wants his life back! What’s JJ to do? I’ll tell you… she’s going to save her hero.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Buy: SEALed with a Ring
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May 3rd, 2009 — About
No hero should leave home without these 10 items in his repertoire:
- Good Looks - if gazing at him doesn't get your motor running and your engine purring, he's not the hero of your dreams.
- Synonyms: Casanova, Adonis
- Skills in the Bedroom - or in the shower, on top of the kitchen table, on the living room floor, against a wall, on the stairs, in the car, ahem... you know where this is going.
- Synonyms: In SBTB land it frequently goes by the term Heroic Wang of Mighty Loving.
- Brawn and Brains - nothing kills a hero's heroism faster than stupidity. Intelligence is sexy!
- Charm - if he can't charm his way into your knickers with a smile, something's wrong.
- Synonyms: Magnetism, Thrall, Charisma, Magic
- Domestic Skills - if he cooks, cleans, and gives orgasms in sets of three or more, he's never allowed out of the house. His name is slave and he answers to Master.
- Synonyms: Maid, Chef, Sex God
- Brooding - all heroes brood, it's built into their genetic makeup. We females simply can't resist a good brood, it's our kryptonite.
- Synonyms: Sulking, Moping, Pouting
- Possessiveness - they have it, how often they express it is another matter to be taken up by the subgenre or author.
- Synonyms: Beast, Alpha Male; Green Eyed Monster, Jealousy
- Wealth - not just money, the hero must also be wealthy in knowledge, social connections, life skills, common sense... hold on the last one until later in the novel, because otherwise there might not be a story.
- Stubbornness - you didn't read that wrong. They're male, it's one of the few flaws we allow them, but only when it serves our purposes.
- Synonyms: Persistence, Perseverance; Inflexibility, Pigheadedness
- Heroine - what's the point of #1-9 if he doesn't have #10?
- Synonyms: She came, she conquered, and he's forever enslaved to the Magic Hoo-Hoo.
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