Grieving Navy SEAL widower, John Decker, commemorating the two-year anniversary of the day he lived and his wife died, is dragged back into life by a riptide and a blonde he can’t get out of his thoughts. Plagued with survivor’s guilt, he’s reluctant to enter a new relationship, until he meets a feisty bartender with attitude and curves to go with it.Roxi Lanier was the typical young teen in the … teen in the city, happy, full of life and bulletproof, until she became the victim of a violent crime. Her mother moved her to Wellfleet on Cape Cod, away from the scene of her misfortune to start over. Fourteen years later, she’s still afraid to date and be intimate with a man, the scars of her past overriding the happiness she craves. Though she’s an independent owner of a thriving beach bar, she has yet to find success in love. Tides change when she witnesses a suicidal widower diving headfirst into a riptide.
Decker and Roxi struggle to stay afloat through the wreckage of their pasts and the storms of the present to sail into a future together.
Note: This book was previously published as Love On The Rocks, but has since been edited and contains new content.
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What a wonderfully pleasant romance. Two people who gave suffered vastly different tragedies in their lives save each other by falling in love. Roxi and Decker were genuinely likeable characters that complimented each other perfectly. Otis was a charmer and at times a traitor to him mistress. Together they weather a storm both literally and figuratively by finding peace in each other.
This is the tenth book in the Brotherhood Protectors series. John Decker is a widower who lost his wife and his military career as a Seal in an accident two years ago. John is still grieving over the loss of his wife. To get away from his memories of his wife he moved to Cape Cod. On the anniversary of his wife’s death his friend Hank Patterson comes to check on him and spend the day with him. That evening he decides to take a swim only to discover the storm coming in has caused some riptides. Out of nowhere comes a woman Roxie Lanier to save him but he ends up saving her instead. Roxie Lanier is the bar owner and bartender John has had some erotic thoughts about. Both John and Roxie have some trauma in their lives they need to get past to see if they can allow the spark between them to turn into a flame. I love this book. The story is original, the characters have such heart wrenching trauma in their pasts you can’t help but feel for them. This is a must read!
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Cape Cod SEAL Rescue (Brotherhood Protectors Book 10)by Elle James (Author)
5 stars
I purchased a copy of the short romantic suspense novel Cape Cod SEAL Rescue (Brotherhood Protectors Book 10):John and Roxi by Elle James and this review was given freely.
An easy flowing, fast paced and poignant story of finding love post loss as well as a good introduction to the start of the east coast branch of the Brotherhood Protectors.
Despite Hank and Sadie spends their vacation in Cape Cod to support Hank’s friend the former Navy SEAL John Decker on the two year anniversary of the car accident John survived but his wife Allison did not, John finds it hard to move on until rape victim owner of the Gone Fishin’ Bar & Grill, Roxi Lanier, her dog Otis and hurricane Charlie change his mind.
This book starts off tugging at my heartstrings. Decker is a widower, the accident that took his wife’s life also led to his medical discharge from the Navy. Hank Patterson tries once again to entice him to come to Montana and join the Brotherhood Protectors, but he declines claiming to be content and satisfied living on the beach in Cape Cod.
Roxi owns the Gone Fishin’ Bar and Grill it’s a cozy place loved by locals and tourists alike. Decker frequently has dinner there and finds himself more than a little attracted to her. She frequently sees him on her runs with her dog Otis, sitting on his porch watching the ocean.
This particular night, filled with guilt, finds Decker heading into the ocean for a punishing swim to assuage the pain. Seeing him dive into the waters has Roxi scared he would be caught in the riptides caused by the approaching storm.
Roxi finds that her attraction could possibly lead to more, but is Decker ready to move on.
I love Otis, he’s such a loyal dog even if he’s scared of thunder and lightening. It’s Otis that causes them to have to ride out the storm in Decker’s cottage on the beach. A scary situation that is overridden by the heat between these two.
I can’t wait to see what Elle comes up with for the next book in this series.
An entertaining and romantic short read. Decker and his survivor guilt mixed with Roxi and her traumatic past made for an emotional story. These two broken characters deserved a chance at happiness. They had sizzling chemistry that couldn’t be denied. I thoroughly enjoyed their story.