Hot Seal Redemption (Hot Seal Team #5) by Lynn Rae Harris

HOT SEAL Redemption by Lynn Raye Harris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Got this book for free thru an email ad and I am so glad I took it up on its offer. I have never read this author before so I had no idea what to expect - I just expected (based on the summary) a good read.

And I got it.

Bailey is trying to get her life together - working in a club as she stacks her money so that she can go into nursing school. Her little sister (that she raised) is a in and out of her life type of sister until she shows up and leaves a newborn. Before she splits she gives the baby's father's name. Its a Navy SEAL. Bailey finds him and makes some demands.

Alexei is 95% sure he is not the baby's father, but something about Bailey makes him pause. She is a hard worker and is just like him - not looking for anything resembling romance. Especially now that she may have a child to take care of. Alexei agrees to a DNA test, but in the meanwhile he can't stop but get involved with Bailey.

Who is the baby daddy? Where is her sister? Why did she take off? Why is there something calling to both Bailey and Alexei about each other?

These two were super sexy and definitely not looking for any type of attachments. I enjoyed the realistic hesitance on the part of both main characters about the baby and about their own interactions. When sex trafficking and bikers get thrown in the picture we see that its not all DNA tests and dirty diapers. Something else is going on. I appreciated that this wasn't just a story of a mother abandoning her child to be raised by a family member and the family member happens to fall in love. Its deeper than that, but not too deep.

Good read! I'm going to keep going with the series. I may go back to read 1-4 or I may go on to read the next in the series.

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ARC: Right to My Wrong (The Heroes of the Dixie Wardens MC #8) by Lani Lynn Vale

Title: Right to My Wrong

Series: The Heroes of the Dixie Wardens MC #8

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Adult, Motorcycle Club Romance

Release Date: February 3, 2016

Photographer: Furious Fotog 

Cover Model: Chase Ketron 

Nightmares.

Sterling and Ruthie have more things in common than they realize, even though from the outside it doesn’t seem like they do.

Blood.

Sterling is a decorated war hero.

Ruthie is an ex-con.

Their two worlds should’ve never collided, but fate has a way of turning life in the direction least expected. Now Ruthie has to try to come to terms with the fact that she’s in love with a biker who’s also a decorated Navy SEAL. One who leaves for months at a time with little to no advance warning, taking her heart with him each time he goes.

Pain.

Sterling has a lot of things to overcome in order to have Ruthie, the biggest being her mind.

She doesn’t think she’s good enough.

He thinks she’s perfect.

Now it’s up to him to show her just how right he can be.

Ruthie and Sterling.

From the previous book we know that Ruthie is Sawyer’s former cellmate from prison. We know that she killed her husband – cell block tango style and that he deserved it. 

Sterling is a member of the Dixie Wardens MC, active duty SEAL team member, and has a serious interest in Ruthie who feels like she isn’t worthy to be with someone like Sterling. These two are friends as he and his [foster] brothers come to her job daily to buy snacks. 

This couple is meant for each other. They both have PTS and I very much enjoyed, even though it was a messed up moment, when they both shared their painful experiences surrounding a Toyota Corolla. This book is riddled with these personal moments that further the notion that these two have to end up together. As per usual with a Lani Lynn Vale book when the couple in question finally do make it to the physical side of their relationship the pages literally implode. Case in point – the rain scene.

I’ll leave it at that.

An important thing about this book to understand is its main purpose is NOT to tell the story of Sterling and Ruthie getting together. There are many surrounding side-plots that total an awesome read. There is the issue of Ruthie’s treatment by the town and its police force. There is the issue of Sterling’s active duty status as a S.E.A.L. There is the issue of Sterling’s birth mother. There is the issue of Ruthie trying to make a go of her life after getting out of prison.

There is so much more than Sterling and Ruthie coming together as a couple. Not all of it is good and not all of it is bad. There are several grab your chest moments.

But overall I enjoyed each and every delicious morsel. The good. The bad. The heart-wrenching. The sexy. There was much satisfaction to be had in this book.

 

I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 5, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.

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