It isn’t Sage Parker’s fault that she mistakes former Navy SEAL Joel Watts as the stalker who had been sending her disturbing letters–he shows up every time she turns around. Too bad her father doesn’t tell her he sent Joel to protect her. When the stalker tracks Sage from LA to her new job in Colorado, she’s glad to have Joel on her side. She didn’t plan to falling in love with him though—now … though—now if he would see her as more than just a client.
Joel takes his job as head of resort security seriously, but Sage is his number one priority, and the one woman he can’t get out of his mind. He isn’t sure if he believes in her precognition, or some of her other hokey beliefs, but he soon finds he can’t live without her. He just has to catch the stalker before he or Sage end up dead.
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Sage was living in LA when she started getting upsetting notes and gifts. She went to the police but there wasn’t much they could do. Joel was hired by her dad to protect her and also head of security for the hotel. Sage has already to take the job in CO and meets Joel by accident when she sees him. They both move to DO as friends and he is still her bodyguard after she finds out about her sisters. But the stalker follows. But they finally admit more after his old SEAL friend passed away.
4.5 star Review SEAled With Love (DiCarlo Brides #2) by Heather Tullis
AUDIO REVIEW:
Heather Tullis is a relatively new author to me and why that is the case, I have no idea. I found this book to be well written and entertaining and it kept me invested from the first to the last chapter.
I have listened to narrator Valerie Gilbert before and as with previous books she has narrated, I found this one to be a pleasure to listen too. She uses different voices to distinguish between the characters which makes listening easy and enjoyable.
This instalment is Sage Parker and Joel Watts’s story and was one I found captivating. Joel was tasked by her late father to watch over and protect her from a stalker who is fixated on her.
I fell hard and fast for Joe, he isn’t the tough ex navy seal that he makes out to be. Under the surface is a man who has not known love in his life, except for his seal brothers in arms. Until he meets Sage, he has no idea of just how lonely and alone he has become. My heart broke for him even whilst it swooned; he is that kind of man.
There is heat, spice, love, drama, danger and suspense as Joel tries to protect Sage and find out the identity of her stalker.
The second book of the series was just as good as the first. I love how it picked up from where the first ended. You get to see the sisters and their developing relationships. I will definitely be reading the next one.
**** Book 1
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the novel A Perfect Fit (DiCarlo Brides Book 1): Love in Juniper Ridge Jan 15, 2014 by Heather Tullis and this review was given freely.
A good introduction to the series. Complex and full of drama. 6 women find out after their father’s funeral that they really are sisters and must work and live together for a year to make a the new Colorado hotel prosperous or marry in order to inherit. What they didn’t expect upon arrival to the hotel site in Juniper Ridge,Colorado were romances that were secretly set up for them by their father George DiCarlo prior to his death and the multiple media sabotage attempts. Couples inferred include Cami with Landscaper Vince ,her sister Lana with the hotel’s regional manager Blake, and her stepsisters Sage with former SEAL and head of hotel security Joel, Delphi with photographer Jeremy, and Jonquil with Ski Resort owner/manager Gage. A tutorial on hot air ballooning, setting up a hotel and resort and the stress of waiting for a kidney transplant are seamlessly blended in with all the family and workplace drama.
**** Book 2
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the novel SEALed With Love (DiCarlo Brides book 2) Mar 11, 2013 by Heather Tullis and this review was given freely.
Suspenseful with multiple forms of violence this novel begins months before the timeframe in book 1 and features the fearful reflexologist Sage who has a gift of precognition. Sage is contemplating leaving LA not only to take the Colorado Spa Manager job for her father but also to hide from a stalker. A suspenseful opening results in Sage meeting Joel the private security guard hired for her by her matchmaking father George Dicarlo. This sequel contains the events leading up to the post funeral attorney meeting in book 1 and then jumps ahead to the present day to Cami and Vince’s engagement, Sage’s work in the DiCarlo Colorado Hotel’s Spa, the return of Sage’s stalker, Sage’s budding romance with former SEAL/private security guard/ head of the DiCarlo Colorado Hotel’s security Joel, a poignant moment with Joel’s SEAL family,and the continued saga of the DiCarlo sisters.
Can be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence.
**** Book 3
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the novel Reclaiming His Bride (DiCarlo Brides book 3) Mar 17, 2013 by Heather Tullis and this review was given freely.
Suspenseful, emotional and action packed with a twist. Starting three weeks after the DiCarlo Colorado Hotel’s opening,the story of hotel general manager Lana and the hotel chain’s regional manager Blake is a rocky one of secrets, misunderstandings, and an unplanned pregnancy. The continued saga of the DiCarlo sisters is peppered with escalating ghost activity in the form of hotel destruction and a murder which is blended with Blake’s family’s interference and Blake trying to win back Lana.
Contains some violence. Can be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence.
**** Book 4
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the novel Family Matters : DiCarlo Brides book 4 May 6, 2013 by Heather Tullis and this review was given freely.
An emotional second chance at love story with multiple unhappy people, multiple acts of violence, a message concerning excessive dieting/poor body image, and a happy ending. Rosemary’s life drastically changes when one of Sage’s predictions come true giving Rosemary the chance to be a parent of her 10 year old daughter Cleo after the adoptive parents are tragically killed. Rosemary and Harrison find love and healing as he comforts and assist her through the changes brought with motherhood and tries to protect them when multiple violent acts befall the family.
Contains some violence. Can be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence.
**** Book 5:
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the novel Wild Hearts (DiCarlo Brides Book 5) Dec 22, 2013 by Heather Tullis and this review was given freely.
A poignant second chance at love story combined with the continued saga of the Dicarlo sisters. Mystery and violence follow the couple as an innocent piece of fool’s gold turns out to be real. Reverting back to May and Delphi’s entrance at the reading of her father’s will then Jumping to July and her first meeting with Jeremy and then jumping again to January and the preparation for Rosemary’s wedding this sequel features the widowed motorcycle loving wedding planner Delphi and the friends to more romance with photographer Jeremy.
Can be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence. Contains some violence.
**** Book 6
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the novel The Last Bride (DiCarlo Brides Book 6) Jan 22, 2014 by Heather Tullis and this review was given freely.
The last of the six DiCarlo brides finally wins her love and gains the emotional support and sense of belonging she has been craving for years. George DiCarlo’s last not so “secret match” involves his youngest daughter the Hotel’s floral manager Jonquil and appears to be a soulmate but Gage is still resistant. Both Jonquil and struggling local ski resort owner Gage are dedicated hard hard works who love nature and outdoor sports, support their families emotionally and monetarily but are taken advantage of by their self centered younger sisters. Life gets interesting when floral department manger Jonquil’s flighty self centered little sister the drama student Angela moves in for the summer, Gage is unable to support his self centered socialite sister Natalie, and someone sabotages the ski resort.
Can be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence. Contains violence in the form of shooting and jealousy/mental illness.
**** Book 7
4 stars
I purchased a copy of the novel Getting Her Groom (DiCarlo Brides Book 7) Dec 11, 2014 by Heather Tullis and this review was given freely.
An older man-younger woman romance with a sinister undertone, one large loving family, a pair of superficial parents, and a happy ending. Tying up some loose ends, Jonquil’s little sister Angela’s road to graduation is sabotage but, graduation does not end her problems when she has to make a decision between a long distance relationship with Cami and Lana’s cousin the lawyer Alex, living near her family, and taking an understudy position to her dream job on Broadway in NY.
Can be read as a stand alone but best if read in sequence. Violence is not as graphic as in prior novels.
love the story if you like mystery and romance you will like the story
This series is a group of stand alone stories with a common thread runner by through them. After the death of their father, a group of girls found out he’d cheated on his wife & that the 6 of them were sisters. In order to earn their inheritance, they had to make a success of the newest resort.
Sage has been bothered by a stalker for some time. Her father hired an ex-Seal to protect her & try to discover who it was. Her father has also been working as a matchmaker, trying to set each of the girls up with someone. Will Sage & Joel admitted to their feelings?
I enjoy the common thread of these books that basically have the six girls learning to love each other & becoming a true family. The guys they are set up with become close & actually end up feeling & acting like brothers. The interactions between the sister & the guys really make these stories realistic.
SEALed With Love is the second book in the DiCarlo Brides series. Each book in this series highlights a different sister and this one focuses on Sage. Sage has been getting letters from a stalker. When Joel follows her, she starts to think he might be the stalker, not the bodyguard hired to watch out over her. I enjoyed their story.
A deceased father who throws 6 girls together (2 from his marriage and 4 illegitimate daughters to four different women) to build his hotel. Each daughter has something to bring to the table but they must all live on the premises with each other. While trying to come to grips with this curve ball he also has another curve ball for each daughter…..a husband he has personally picked out! !
Sage Parker has been receiving letters from a stalker and decides that after what her father revealed in his will that she needs to move to Colorado to start fresh with her new found sisters…except she doesn’t realize that the one man following her is the bodyguard her father assigned to protect her in LA and that man is Joel Watts. After arriving at the hotel things start to escalate again with the stalker and Joel is determined to keep Sage safe no matter what it takes….
Will Sage and Joel find their HEA or will the stalker keep them apart???