Her SEAL Rescuer

I loved this book! The intensity, the attraction and unconditional love that surfaces make this a great read. A random meeting in an Alaskan airport between former lovers Megan and Ben is serendipitous at best because little do these two know their lives are going to take a very dangerous and uncharted turn. They still have a connection even though they try to ignore it and with Logan, Megan’s little charge they need to put the past behind them and focus on the task at hand…to survive someone’s attempts to kill Logan. I highly recommend this book for anyone needing a happy ending!

Ben is really wanting to get to Alaska for a much needed vacation. He’s a Navy SEAL on leave. At the airport, Logan, a toddler runs up to him. Megan not far behind, tells that he knows better than run off like he did. Ben realizes that the woman is Megan, the girl he left behind 7 years ago, breaking both of their hearts.
After Megan reassures herself that Logan is ok, she looks up and recognizes Ben.
The three of them are the only passengers on the plane. When the plane crashes, Ben realizes he needs to protect Megan and Logan at all costs. Now he has to figure out who and why someone would deliberately crash the plane, and the intended victim is.
Lots of suspense, action and romance abound here.

I really wasn’t sure about this second chance story. I’m so glad I read it. It’s a beautfully told story about the question, “Do second chances really happen? Can people actually get past the past?”
This is my honest opinion of this book.

Very enjoyable

College sweethearts reunited. He keeps her and a little boy safe after a plane crash. He discovered a bomb caused the crash.

Was a great read, I enjoyed it!

This is not a typical SEAL brotherhood book but it was enjoyable to read as former lovers are forced to reconnect to survive and save the life of the young man who is the charge of the nanny.

Sam and Megan were inseparable when they dated in college, until Megan wanted to take it to the next level and Sam ran scared, straight into the military. Now they’re both older and wiser and running from people trying to kill her charge. Will it lead to the final goodbye or a second chance for the love they both still feel?

Her SEAL Rescuer is only the second time I’ve read a book by Katie Knight and Leslie North, and while I wasn’t over the moon about the first book of hers I read, this second chance novel of romantic suspense was far and away and huge improvement over the previous one, and it gets 4.5 stars from this reader.

Ben Steele and Megan Foster fell in love when they were both students at UCLA Berkeley, possibly drawn together at first because they were native Alaskans, but when Megan was ready to take their relationship to the next level–suggesting that they move into an apartment together, Ben, who’d been abandoned by his birth mother, and shuffled from dreadful foster home to dreadful foster home, got cold feet, and immediately enlisted, eventually becoming a Navy SEAL, and building his own “family” among his SEAL brothers.

Megan, brokenhearted at losing the love of her life with no explanation, entered marketing, but found it wasn’t fulfilling, and she ended up becoming a live-in nanny to a couple of famous and wealthy physicians, falling in love with her charge, their adorable little boy, Logan. She accidentally loses sight of Logan while waiting to board a plane at the airport in Anchorage, to reunite him with his parents in Fairbanks–he’d been too ill to travel with them when they left. When she does find Logan, she shocked to see that the man he’s being consoled by is a someone she once knew and loved, Ben Steele, the man who broke her heart 8 years earlier, and left her without a backward glance, although she’s never gotten over him, nor he her, but although he’s never explained his reasons for leaving her, the situation is awkward at best.

When it’s time to board the small plane, Meg, Ben and Logan find themselves the only passengers, but after chatting briefly, without ever really addressing the elephant on the plane, except for Ben apologizing for the way he left Megan 8 years earlier, what sounds like an engine problem is actually a bomb and the plane crashes to the ground in the middle of nowhere Alaska, leaving the pilot and his lone crew member dead. Miraculously, Ben, Megan and Logan survive the crash with little more than bruises, but when Ben inspects the wreckage of crashed plane and finds shrapnel, he know for certain that it was a bomb that exploded, and discovers that there’s still another larger bomb aboard the plane. He and Meg quickly grab what might be useful to them and Logan, blankets, warm clothing, food and water, as they flee the crash site, fearing another explosion, and they begin their search to find shelter in the frigid Alaskan wilderness–having no idea why anyone would want to blow up the small plane, and hoping that the GPS beacon on the plane is undamaged and that rescue in on the way there.

Ben and Megan both try to keep young Logan from knowing just how dire their situation is, not knowing if or when help will arrive, or who is after them. They eventually learn that that the target of the explosion was little Logan, and the bomber/antagonist is the father of a little boy whose son was severely injured, and that Logan’s parents, wealthy and highly regarded surgeons, are the ones he blames for his son’s death, also poisoning the mind of his teenage son with his hatred, bitterness and need to avenge the death of his son, by killing the son of the surgeons who were unable to save his own son, and wanting to make them suffer the way he had suffered.

What follows is one intense novel of romantic suspense, one that kept me reading non-stop until I finished reading this novel at 4:00 a.m., and my only issue with this novel is that Ben’s inner dialogue about his lack of trust in long-term relationships and in love itself, and his feeling that he’s unworthy of being loved because it was drilled into his head by his last set of horrible foster parents, becomes increasingly redundant and was way overdone. Otherwise, this novel was one exciting, well-paced, well-plotted, well-written and heartfelt read with fully developed characters, and I’m happy to recommend it.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

A second chance romance, my favorite genre, because everyone deserves a second chance at happiness. This is the first book that I have read from this author.

Benjamin Steele and Megan Foster had a lot in common when they met at the University of California, aside from both being Alaskans. Ben had been taken from his birth mother by child protective services, when he was only 2, but instead of given to a loving family, he was placed from one foster family after another, who only cared about the money they were paid and told him so. Megan’s father had walked away from his family when she was 7, and never looked back, but she still had her mother and siblings and had a nurturing personality. So when Megan had talked about moving in together, he panicked, didn’t think that he was good enough for her and that she would eventually leave him, so he left first for the SEAL program.

He thought about her often and she was never able to get over him, so eight years later when they meet at the Anchorage airport, it is awkward. He has been with the SEALs and she had burned out of working in marketing and was now a nanny for Logan, a cute little boy, child of two doctors. They end up as the only passengers on the small plane, which crashes mid flight. But it wasn’t an accident; an evil man wants revenge on Logan’s parents, and doesn’t care who else dies in the process. The three of them are the only survivors and it will take all his SEALs skills to get Logan and Megan back to safety. Will they take their second chance, or will pride and fear keep them from voicing their love for each other?

Exciting action packed story, with suspense, romance, easy banter and a cute toddler. I read an ARC from NetGalley.com and this is my unbiased and voluntary review.

A brilliantly written second chance romance. Megan and Ben are thrown together in the wilderness and realize they have to work together to survive and also to keep Logan alive so Megan can return him to his parents. The chemistry between Megan and Ben is off the charts and they struggle to keep it under control despite there being a killer out there targeting one of them. It’s a wonderfully written book and well worth the read.