What started as an adventure, soon became hell. Piper Johnson’s thrilled to spend time in Timor-Leste with her best friend, a Peace Corps volunteer…until civil unrest erupts throughout the countryside, including an attack at the orphanage the women were visiting. With the aid of a SEAL team sent to extract the government employee, Piper flees with the only other known survivors—three young orphan … orphan girls. Piper wasn’t able to save her friend, but she’ll be damned if she leaves the girls to the mercy of child traffickers in the country’s impoverished capital. However, taking them with her to the States requires something drastic, something crazy…something she can’t do alone.
What started as a mission, soon becomes fate. Since nearly dying on a previous op, Beckett “Ace” Morgan has no time for regrets. Life is far too short. So when he learns the brave, beautiful, selfless woman he’s rescued has a better chance of getting three orphans out of the country if she’s married, he doesn’t hesitate. Ace marries her then and there, instantly gaining the family he’s always wanted. With time, he knows his respect for Piper can grow into love, and meanwhile, he’s saved both her and their new daughters from a fast-spreading rebel incursion.
Protecting his girls on foreign soil turns out to be the easy part of the team’s mission. Protecting them from a threat waiting at home may be the biggest fight of Ace’s life.
** Securing Piper is the 3rd book in the SEAL of Protection: Legacy Series. Each book is a stand-alone, with no cliffhanger endings.
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Awesome read. Loved it from beginning to end. Be prepared to laugh out load if reading in public and to cry as well. Warning. You gonna wanna watch out for the Epilogue
Oh my word! What an emotional and intense roller coaster read this is. Scary and full of threats of various kinds all the way through but also filled with a fast but everlasting love, and hope for something better. With a twist I had a feeling might happen but the how was still a surprise. This was harrowing reading at times and edge of your seat at others, I also found some inspiration in the love and dedication that built throughout. Fantastic characters and a plot that kept me turning the pages. Hurry up January for the next in this series coz I can’t wait.
I listened to this Audiobook and I have to say I am loving this series! Piper and Ace are perfect together. The way Ace cares for Piper and their 3 girls is simply swoonworthy. I loved this storyline although it was difficult at times and very emotional. These two characters are wonderful as is the supporting cast of the rest of the team and their women. My heart was overfull with the love that was shown to the three girls from Timor-Leste by Piper and Ace and I love total willingness to make things happen for them. Such an amazingly satisfying ending to a story that has some extremely tense moments!
First off what an amazing book! Definitely worth more than 5 stars and you’ll need a few tissues but totally worth reading.
When Piper goes to Timor-Leste to visit her best friend little does she know that she’ll be witness to a rebellion. Kaylee hides her and 3 of the girls from the orphanage under the floorboards while trying to rescue more girls. When she doesn’t come back Piper knows that she’ll take care of the girls giving her life no matter what.
Ace and his team of Navy SEALs are sent to rescue Kaylee (who’d dad is a political powerhouse) and Piper but finds no one alive except for Piper and the 3 girls. It will be a race against time when the rebels try to kill any survivors but Ace and his team finally make it to Dili where both Piper and Ace decide that leaving the girls to their fate isn’t an option. So they marry and will Tex’s help adopt the girls. Kaylee’s father gets angry when he finds out that Piper survived not his daughter which opens the door to the climatic ending. The girls Rani, Sinta and Kemala will learn to adapt to the US with some misgivings but its Ace and Piper who give them the home and love of a family that they’ve always missed.
Leaving Kaylee doesn’t sit well with Phantom as no one gets left behind but he vows to go back and find her body to bring her home. There are hints of this book at the end but also 2 others I’m sure we’ll all wait anxiously for their release.
An engrossing read that brought a couple tears for the main couple and the ‘bad’ guy.
From the very first page this book had me on the edge of my seat.
Piper’s friend Kaylee is serving with the Peace Corp in Timor-Leste, a small island country near Australia. Needing to do something out of the ordinary for her, Piper agrees to visit.
With the threat of rebellion, Piper is nervous but Kaylee eases her fears and they are at an orphanage a few miles from Kaylee’s home when the rebels decide the time is right to strike.
Hidden in a crawl space with three of the orphans, Piper is scared yet determined to keep the girls safe. Filled with uncertainty she’s trying to formulate a plan to get away from the orphanage when American voices signal the answer to her prayers.
For Ace and his team the discovery of Piper with the three orphan girls definitely throws a wrench into the plans. Expecting to only rescue Piper and Kaylee now they have the children as well, but no Kaylee.
Phantom finds Kaylee, but it’s to late for her and they are forced by the approach of the rebels to leave without her body.
Not a usual extraction as they have to traverse the mountain and get to the capital on foot.
There are several trials and tribulations as they make their way to the capital.
Once there, so many issues come up and the solutions will surprise and delight you.
More than one interesting turn of events and the lead in to the next books will have you begging for more!
Great book! I loved reading it from
beginning to end. It’s a captivating,
sexy, funny, & emotional romance.
Ace Piper, are perfect together.
Another fabulous book in the series!
I adored everything about this Must
Read Story!!
I’m waiting for the next book in series
I started Securing Piper this morning and I couldn’t put it down until I finished. This story grabbed me at the very beginning with drama and suspense and wouldn’t let go even through meals and laundry. My ovaries just about exploded with how lovingly Ace and his teammates handled the young girls. I melted as Piper and Ace explored their new relationship. I sat on the edge of my seat and the very end blew me away. Another one in the 5 star column for Susan Stoker.
Will most likely read again
I loved Ace and Piper’s story. I loved those girls! Susan, as always created an amazing, emotional, exciting story of love, friendship, brotherhood, heroic man fantasy come true. I love these guys! They are all so swoon worthy with the best of women to be their match! Great continuation of an another amazing story by Stoker!
Piper, a cartoon artist and introvert, goes to visit her best friend in Timor-Leste. Her best friend teaches English in the Peace Corp. They go to visit an orphanage when the rebels storm the little mountain town. Piper’s friend makes her and three little girls hide in a crawl space in the kitchen. They hide for three days before she hears men talking in English. Ace is a Navy SEAL and after almost dying on an op, he regretted not starting a family. They were sent to get Kalee, Piper’s best friend out, but end up with a woman and three girls. When they finally get down to the city, Piper wants to take the girls she bonded with back home with her. When they go to the Embassy, she’s told that she needs to be married. Ace and Piper gets married and take the girls back with them. As they are settling into their new life, someone has been watching them and when the unexpected happens, Piper and Ace will do anything to protect their girls.
Action, surprises, and romance. I adored this couple and can’t wait to read the rest of the members stories. Ms. Stoker writes books that you can get lost in for hours. Be prepared for an edge of your seat story.
I have read most of Susan Stoker’s books and I am never disappointed in her portrayals of heroes and heroine. We discovered what Ace wanted most in Securing Caite…and he gets his desire in Securing Piper. This book is emotion-PACKED. The empathy that Piper has for those less fortunate is endearing and you immediately want her to succeed in what she wants to do and the fact that Ace steps right up is a great beginning to the story. There were so many heartwarming tears evoking scenes in the book I literally had to put the book down. There’s just so much and the epilogue not only left us hankering for the next book but for the final book in series. I am sure we are going to get snippets of that final story (which I can foresee is going to be a HUGE TEARJERKER) between now and the next 3 books. Susan always does a fantastic job of intertwining her series and mentioning characters we have already come to know and love. I enjoy series immensely and finishing them is tough…you feel like you’re leaving friends you’ve come to know and love. And this series is no exception. I really like this bearded bunch and I did love when Piper said they were all like models from a sexy bearded man calendar. I like she has included they all have beards and why they have beards as part of their missions. Ace and Piper are truly a favorite. You can read this one alone, however, I would say read Securing Caite at least first…
What did Susan do????? Oh! My !! God!!!! This is one book that I just couldn’t out down..for long. Even though we had Ace and Piper, glimpses of what is to come in future books in the next year???
In this book, Piper goes to another country on vacation to stay with her best friend, Kalee. Who is a Peace Corps volunteer teaching the native English when whole there rebels attach the village and Piper and three orphans are hid under a foolproof the kitchen.
After several days, Seals come in to rescue Kalee and Piper but find a destroyed village and orphanage.
There are many obstacles that the Seals, Piper and the orphans go through to get safely back to the states and Susan has really had you glued at what the characters are revealing in Ace and Poker’s story. Knowing there are possibly two more books being traded with us…
Seeing the love between Piper and Ace growing so fast and that Ace is taking his time , the love they have for Rani, Sent a and Kamala and making sure they’re always knowing their loved as fed and loved for themselves.
Susan has really written a most wonderful book , I think that so far out of all her books this one is my absolutely favorite one. With glimpses of Tex, and others she has given me as I read each book, that these characters are alive, their feelings, their strengths and their beliefs are so realistic.
If anything her books could be read by themselves, but I would suggest to read them in order.
Susan Stokes Deal’s and their ladies are the best.
Now, I have to wait patiently as I can for Rocco’s story which is next, but it’s gonna be a year before we find out that Phantom will get to go find Kalee…
Thank you Susan for the most wonderful book of all…
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Securing Piper was as edge of your seat AMAZING as Protecting Fiona! Action packed, dangerous, heart melting perfection, this book had EVERYTHING!
Susan Stoker’s latest masterpiece is an eye opening, jaw-dropping, exhilarting romantic suspense of epic proportions. Ace and Piper have such amazing personalities and really hot chemistry that made my inner romantic swoon. This book had some scary as hell action and the obstacles and issues Ace and Piper face made this read a big time winner. I loved every action packed moment and and the feels that came out of this book made it extra good. I can’t wait for Legacy #4!
Securing Piper gets a AMAZING FIVE EXCITING STARS!
This is book 3 in the Seal of Protection:Legacy series and can absolutely be read as a stand alone. However, I loved the previous books and highly recommend them as well! In this one we get Beckett “Ace” Morgan and Piper Johnson’s story. Piper went to Timor-Leste to visit her best friend who was in the peace corps. What should have been a fun time visiting and sight seeing turns out completely different when rebels attack the orphanage they are visiting. Piper never expects to suddenly become responsible for 3 girls but she will do anything and everything she has to in order to keep them safe. Ace and his team are sent in to rescue a woman, but when his mission turns into something completely life changing-he doesn’t hesitate to do what he feel’s is right. And keeping the woman and the girl’s that he feel’s are meant to be his safe becomes his new goal. They should have all been safe once they were home, but neither expect for danger to continue to come at them or their girl’s.
I absolutely loved this story! Not only is Piper this beautiful soul who will not leave behind those girl’s for anything, but Ace feel’s exactly the same way. They both can and will do anything to make sure those girl’s have the lives that they should have vs the life that would have been theirs due to circumstances. Reading about the things that happen to women over there is heartbreaking, and knowing that it’s not just adult women but children and young girls? It’s even worse in my mind. I loved this story from start to finish. This author always finds ways to not only bring a beautiful story to life but she also seems to find ways to shine a light on the horror’s that can and do happen to people. To somehow bring them to light and make people think and wonder how they may be able to help alleviate these types of situations for others. And I, personally, love that about her! Not only beautiful love stories with tons of action but there is just something there to make you think.
5 Stars
Another suspense filled romance from Susan Stoker is just what you need! Ace and Piper meet under some of the worst circumstances and come out on the other side happier than they ever could have imagined. Jungles, rebels, danger, adorable children and sexy SEALs, this story has it all!!! Oh, and of course Ms. Stoker always drops hints on what is to come and for this book, be prepared for one that will have you hoping time flies!
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Piper joined her best friend Kaylee in Timor-Leste for what was supposed to be a nice vacation. Kaylee would show Piper the villages she worked at for Peace Corps, they’d catch up, and Piper would get a break from work. What neither expected was for that to be when rebellion erupts across the country and the orphanage they were visiting gets attacked. Kaylee hid Piper with three girls and went to find more. She never returned. Ace’s SEAL team went into Timor-Leste to find Piper and Kaylee- and found Piper with three girls instead. They may think they’ve seen some of the worst the world has to offer, but in the midst of darkness, these girls show them trust and love they didn’t expect. Ace marries Piper to help her adopt the girls and bring them to America, but danger isn’t exclusive to foreign countries.
Securing Piper gives a modern (and lovely) twist to the marriage of convenience trope. In this case, it ensures Piper can adopt all three girls before leaving the country (some Tex computer magic may also have helped). Piper and Ace have seen the situation the girls will be in if they stay and that, plus the bond they’ve already developed with the girls, means neither of them are willing to leave them behind. It’s an eye opening situation, both for them and for the reader, and instead of yelling that they are crazy you’re cheering it all along.
Piper and Ace connect from the beginning- they are a relationship that highlight how well Stoker can make chemistry sizzle between two people without being near a bed. The connection between the team members is great, and despite not really being a fan of kids, I ended up enjoying how Rani, Sinta, and Kemala touch everyone on the team, not just Ace and Piper. Stoker also does a fantastic job balancing suspense, menace, danger, and forgiveness when it comes to her bad guy. Without giving it away, this is a book of love and forgiveness even when something seems unforgivable. Which is a theme that may come back and haunt all of these characters in a future book. Instead of giving the reader hints for just the next book in the series, Stoker also sets up the last book in the series- and while there is no cliff-hanger to Piper and Ace’s story, I for one found myself yelling at the end of the book: how can you make us wait a whole year until that story!! The answer of course, is that Stoker is a prolific enough writer that she’s keeping busy with several other series for the reader to enjoy while waiting- and that she probably secretly enjoys a bit of maniacal laughter at stringing along the readers as much as she does her heroes.
Securing Piper keeps up the best of Susan Stoker (Securing Caite) traditions: jungle rescues, hot-yet- compassionate heroes, and relatable could-be-you heroines. A must read for fans of Stoker and her series, or for those just discovering the author.
I received an ARC of this book from BookSprout in exchange for an honest review
Worth more than 5 Stars
This story is an absolute must read and from everything I’ve read of Susan’s work so far, I’m going to say her BEST yet The only reason I’m saying that is because of the amount of times I had tears in my eyes I fell in love with Ace and his gentlemanly ways with the girls that made me wish for my very own SEAL……shush don’t tell my hubby
Ace and his team are called in for a rescue mission to Timor-Leste, but when they arrive the mission isn’t what they thought it would be. Piper along with three orphans are hidden under the kitchen floor and make themselves known when Piper hears American voices speaking English. Ace and Piper forge bonds with the girls which make it difficult to ever think of leaving them behind in a country riddled with rebels fighting to take control of the country! They make a decision to get married in the hopes of adopting the girls and taking them to the US Arriving in the US demonstrates to Ace, that he might have to protect his girls from a danger much closer than expected.
I loved this story as I frequently had tears in my eyes and felt the book overall held a much more emotional tone than previous stories…or it could have been the orphans that stormed off with my heart I’m sad we will only have Bubba’s story in January 2020 and find out more about what’s bugging Phantom late next year but I love this series, so I will patiently wait and devour anything else Susan writes in the meantime to keep me occupied
From the first sentence, the reader is transported into Piper’s world and invested in how she will triumph over trials to find a forever with Ace. Read this book in one setting deep into the night as to not miss a moment of action with twists and turns. Don’t miss this third book in the Seal
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