A Navy SEAL who wants seclusion. A diva who craves the spotlight. The deal they make could give them both what they need . . . if they don’t kill each other first! Reality TV has never been so hot!Navy SEAL Clay “Dirtman” Hagan’s retirement plans are simple. Buy the dilapidated beachfront cottage he found listed for a song, fix it up, and live out his days in solitude. Everything is set until an … Everything is set until an anonymous bidder drives up the price of his future paradise.
TV talk show host Tasha Jones is flying high, until one word—CANCELED—sends her crashing. Now she’s looking to resurrect her career with a new home renovation show if they can get around the buyer standing in the way of the perfect property.
When the competition turns out to be the obnoxious a-hole from her embarrassing drunken one-night stand, the battle for the property really heats up as the insults—and the sparks—fly. The producer notices the chemistry between them and decides the viewers will too and “Hot House” is born.
If Clay agrees to have the self-centered star and her cameras in his house for the duration of the show, he walks away as the owner in the end. If Tasha can put up with living in the bungalow with the Neanderthal control-freak during the construction, she gets a hit show and her career back. Win-win.
It shouldn’t be too hard since the director loves when they argue on camera, which is good since they agree on nothing. Well, almost nothing. They do both agree that they pretty much hate each other and neither one wants a repeat of their one night together . . . So why does it keep happening?
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Take A Walk On The Wild Side, & Build Something Lasting With “Hot SEAL, Dirty Martini”
Whew-Wee! Talk about taking a walk on the HOT side!!!
To say opposites attract would be mild, because the SPARKS comin’ OFF this Couple could lite up the sky on the 4th of July!!
Renovations have never been pounded HARDer, fought over More HEATedly, built STRONGer, or LOVEed More PASSIONately in the END!!
I was granted an ARC of Cat Johnson’s “Hot SEAL, Dirty Martini (SEALs in Paradise)” via Booksprout; I recommend this book to others based upon its own merits. All opinions expressed within this review are uniquely my own & freely given!
Until next time… Happy Reading!
Love this author
Fun to read. It had it’s serious moments too. Sometimes our lives change to something we never saw coming.
Put one Navy seal with one ex talk show host on a home remodeling reality show together? Cameras 24/7 for a month in the house. It’s chaos, fun, fights, sexual tension, just what producers want. The longer they’re together the more the sexual temptation they have.. This is a Hot steamy romance. The Hot House Tv show lives up to it’s name.
John Posvistak narration is very good. I enjoyed listening to this story.audiobookobsessionreviewer
I really enjoyed Hot SEAL, Dirty Martini.
I love watching those home improvement shows and this home improvement storyline was great.
It is a complete standalone, enemies to lovers, hot, hot, HOT story with fun banter. I loved the audiobook. It had really good narration, a great distraction while doing my housework!!
-4 Stars!-
Cat Johnson always writes a story where we can pretend we are in the book with the characters so we can leave our everyday life behind. I am a big fan of Navy Seal books and I fell in love with Clay right away and I knew that Tasha would be the woman that he needed. He goes after what he wants, works hard and served his country proudly. What more could a girl want?
A sexy Navy Seal is pitted against a feisty TV personality who is looking to restore her career after an on-air meltdown. Clay found the perfect beach house where he could spend his retirement and all it needed was a little work, and he was ready for the job. Unfortunately, a TV production company also wanted his hideaway and they kept jacking up the price which was making him furious. Along with this headache, he meets (again) the woman who would become a thorn in his side and a desire he couldn’t resist. Tasha needed this job and she refused to let a macho Navy Seal get in her way. Their constant arguing is mixed with sexy glances and sleepless nights. What happens when they can no longer resist temptation and they give in to their desires? With the cameras on 24 hours a day, Clay will need to use his Navy Seal skills to find a way to privately spend time with Tasha so no one finds out!!
Hot Seal, Dirty Martini was a story that had you so engaged with these two characters due to the banter, bickering and the heavy feeling of the sexual tension that was between them that you didn’t dare put this book down. Clay is a retired Navy Seal who appears to have only hard edges but if you dig deep enough this man has softness that he shows to only a few. Tasha and Clay are a couple that continue to clash but it appears that hate and love walk a very fine line with these two. A storyline that was a little quirky, different and so so hot.
Well written story with nice story line and plot. Likeable and well described characters. Amazing chemistry and passion.
Captivating and engaging read that keeps the reader on the edge to know more.
I liked that humour is mixed in the story. A sexy and enjoyable read.
Clay ‘Dirtman’ Hagan’s retirement goal is to buy the little beachfront cottage for a song, and spend the rest of his time fixing it up, fishing and lounging on the deck.
Tasha Jones’ show is cancelled and she sort of blew up live on camera after she found out. Now she has a chance to redeem herself with a new home improvement reality show. The producers want another host and have already bid on the property, Clay’s property.
In spite or rather because of the friction between these two, the producers pair them up. Clay will get his house, Tasha will get her show, but can these two survive the renovation.
I laughed a lot, the sneaking around to get time alone was hysterical. However the reason for some of the subterfuge was not as Clay and his buddies meet up to honor a fallen team member.
Laugh out loud funny, sexy, with some tears, all in a true to form reality show but in a book.
Clay and Tasha are wonderfully, oposite characters with hot and steamy character that battle each other thru a home remodel reality show. This book was so much fun!
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A Navy SEAL and a talk show host with lots of heat.
This book is so good! And hot! It’s about a retired Navy SEAL, Clay “Dirtman” Hagan, and a talk show host, Tasha Jones, who is desperately trying to save her career. Being told that your long-running live show is being canceled fifteen minutes before you have to go on camera sucks. So it shouldn’t have been that big of a surprise to see Tasha have a minor meltdown on camera. Okay, so maybe it wasn’t so minor but still. And to pick up some random guy when you are blotto drunk that afternoon? Yeah, these two are just a case of bad timing, need, and attraction that takes on its own power.
It’s a well written and developed book that takes you through laughter, tears, anger, and love.
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Fabulous, hot, steaming, great characters, makes you laugh, makes you frustrated, goes the full circle of emotions – or almost at least… This story is so worth reading and buying. I absolutely loved it. The characters are just absolutely smashing and the story line as well so really well deserved five stars which I don´t give out easily!
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A great book in the SEALs in Paradise series it is a well-written book that I enjoyed. Retired Navy SEAL Clay “Dirtman” Hagan and ex TV talk show host Tasha Jones’ story had me smiling, and turning pages I had to know what was going to happen. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Tasha and Clay are great together as characters. This is a sassy, funny romance. Well written, interesting and keeps you wanting to see what’s next. Great read. I received it from booksprout and voluntarily left my review.
Sexy and Fun! Dirty Martini is my new favorite Cat Johnson novel.
I was so engrossed as I turned each page of this well written storyline that I was pulled right into the story and the characters were so well rounded that I had a hard time putting this book down until I finished reading the very last page!
It’s a tough call, trying to decide if I like this author’s cowboys or SEALs better, but this book with retired frog man Clay is my new favorite from Johnson. This enemies to lovers story was great fun and highly entertaining, and I stayed up way too late reading an early copy of it. When Tasha’s talk show gets cancelled she has a chance to be the host on a home renovation show. The only problem is her co-host will be Clay, her drunken one night stand that wasn’t. Or maybe it was, but her memory of their night together is pretty fuzzy. Clay is trying to buy the same house the producer wants for the show, and it seems the only way he can get it is to co-host with the woman who thinks he’s beneath her and passed out on him when they hooked up.
The producer seems to think there’s some kind of sexual tension or chemistry between Tasha and Clay but they really dislike each other. They have nothing in common. She’s a self-centered diva who loves the spotlight and his life is simple and uncomplicated. They both contest that notion of anything between them a lot, and throwing them together in a tiny bungalow for four weeks certainly makes for some fun reading. With low angst, great chemistry, a little humor and the right amount of heart, this is a fun, easy, lighthearted read that is sure to please.
What a wonderful plot. And so much fun. A good addition to the SEALs in Paradise Series
Hot SEAL, Dirty Martini by Cat Johnson is part of the SEALs in Paradise series but all these books can be read in any order, as they are all stand alone books. This is the first book, by this author, I have had the pleasure to read and review. The book was well written with interesting and exceptionally entertaining characters that will have you laughing one minute and fanning yourself the next.
This is Clay and Tasha’s story—two complete opposites. Clay is a newly retired SEAL who has lived his life in the shadows and plans to enjoy his retirement the same way in a bungalow on the beach. Tasha enjoys the limelight, she is the host of a local daytime television show. Through a series of unfortunate or maybe fortunate events, depending how you look at it, Clay and Tasha are thrown together, as hosts, in a home improvement reality cable show. That is, after they have a pseudo one night stand. Let the fireworks begin. Two complete opposites living, together, working together and of course “listening” to one another… all in 1,000 square feet. They bring arguing to a whole new level, the more they argue the more attracted they become to one another. Who knew arguing could be the best foreplay EVER! I just love these two together, they were fun, entertaining, scary and very hot (Clay mostly), and extremely explosive together. I will definitely be doing some arguing with my husband tonight! So, if you are looking for cute, funny and very steamy read, look no further, you have found your next indulgence. Happy Reading!
***I kindly received an ARC of this book by way of Booksprout. I was not contacted, asked or required to leave a review in order to read this book. I received no compensation, financial or otherwise. This is my honest review.***
San Diego.
Clay has just retired after 20 years in the Navy – most of those years as a SEAL.
And now his life is almost perfect! He just needs to buy the retirement home of his dreams: a 1950’s beach-front fixer-upper! Only he gambled too dangerously with his bid and a TV-production company is outbidding him.
Turns out his crazy-drunk-almost-one-night-stand from last night, Tasha, is involved.
They want to do a reality-TV thing fixing up his house!
They say he can have his house IF he agrees to fix it up as one of the two hosts of the show – with Tasha! That girl is crazy with a capital C, but she’s hot and he wants this house …. how bad can it be to live and work in this tiny house with Tasha for a month???
Well… that was adorable. I really loved those two!
There’s this huge attraction slash hate thing going on from the first second they meet. And from there it’s foreplay fighting all the way! LOL! They’re working on the house and can’t even agree on one single thing for the place. Hilarious! But of course it doesn’t take them long to turn all that fighting into something sexy – but it’s not really easy with all those cameras in the house!
I adored this book and I so want to see this on TV one day!
HOT SEALS: DIRTY MARTINI was the most adorably hilarious love story! I just loved watching those two foreplay-fight-fixer-uppering that house! Run to your nearest amazon for your own sexy ex SEAL! This one is mine!!