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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Wow! Piper and Ace’s story is so full of everything – action, suspense, drama, love, sacrifice, even a touch of horror. It was hard to put this book down to sleep or work, but I had to because sleep means I can work and work means I get money and money means I can buy more books (nasty vicious circle).
In Securing Caite we found out what 3 members of this SEAL team regretted most. Rocco – missing his date with Caite, Gumby – not getting a dog (Securing Sydney), and Ace – not having kids. This story shows (beautifully) that kids don’t have to be your blood to be loved by you and how quickly a family can be formed.
Seeing the bond between these characters grow with every page turn made for an awesome read. Some twists and a couple of small speed bumps (or as they are called in Washington state – traffic calming devices) lead to one major road block which makes Ace realize that his team is not infallible.
I love this author but she is pure EVIL! Y’all know that she teases the next book in the series at the end of the current release, well this time she goes above and beyond – she teases a book that is not even on her schedule – no release date – and I have to have it NOW!!!!
An action-packed romance that had all the feels…
Piper and Ace’s story was amazing! Stuck in a deadly situation, Piper wasn’t ashamed to admit she needed a hero. When Ace and his military brothers found them, the danger wasn’t gone but it felt a whole lot less scary…
Efficient, capable and strong enough to keep her fears at bay, Ace was a hero just by doing what came natural. He and his group were what leading men are all about and their skills and take charge attitude meant the difference to Piper and the girls. Their journey to safety was full of tension, fear and a whole lot of awareness between the main characters. Hearing the story unfold from Piper and Ace’s points of view meant their thoughts and feelings became mine and I quickly became invested in their happily ever after. It was easy to get lost in their struggles and become their biggest cheerleader as they faced one obstacle after another…
This read fit the pattern of this author’s stories and if that is familiar it is only in the best of ways. Great writing, intriguing characters and situations that are always action-packed, I don’t read these books, I devour and savour them and I did that here as I finished this read in just a few (way too) short hours.
While Piper and Ace’s story was completed, a twist at the end had me going ‘what, what, what’ and immediately returning to stalker mode. I need the next story STAT!
*I happily reviewed this story
Wow! So much to love about this book!
Piper and Ace don’t just have chemistry, they have a soul-deep connection right from the start! This isn’t your ordinary insta-love, though, as these two are thoughtful, intelligent people who aren’t afraid to step out on a limb to get what they want out of life.
The complicated, risky extraction from the besieged orphanage, the harrowing trek to safety, the wily, impromptu staging at the embassy, every action-packed step was brilliantly executed and made this book impossible to put down. Once back in the States, the progression of their relationship and all the multi-faceted layers of their new family were breathtaking and heartwarming.
I can’t wait to read more in this series. These are military heroes of the first order, and it’s an absolute joy to read these stories. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
This series is a worthy follow up to Susan Stoker’s original SEAL of Protection series. Securing Piper has everything that fans love – suspense, romance, action and hot military men who have honor in spades. Piper and Ace’s story also has some unexpected twists that caught me by suprise and gave me hints of upcoming books. Can’t wait to see what happens next. Enjoy!
*Sigh, clutches kindle to chest*
My SOUL!! This book has ripped my soul from by body, placed it into an emotional blender and hit high speed. Ms. Susan, you are a dear, dear soul and I adore your books so very much. This is the third in the SEAL of Protection Legacy series, and boy oh boy is it a page turner!
We are brought back to the SEALS, and on this adventure we return to Ace and his team. There mission was simple, bring back the girl. Well…that did not go to plan at all, the women they are sent to find is no where to be found, instead they find Piper and three little girls.
The new mission? Get Piper and the girls back to safety pronto.
Piper was not expecting to spend three days under the floor boards of a house in the middle of nowhere mountains, but that is just where she finds herself after a rebellion breaks out in the small country. During that time, she bonds heavily with the three girls and finds herself not wanting to be parted from them. What can she do though? Well come to find out, she can do A LOT.
Ace has to be one of my favorite guys, he leads with her heart, and when his heart is telling him to help Piper keep these girls, well he does the only thing he can think of to make that happen.
He marry’s her.
A new house, a new life, children and a spouse to boot, what have they gotten themselves into this time.
Join Piper and Ace and their new children on a suspenseful adventure of love, lose and new parenthood. As always, Ms. Susan’s books are a one click buy, and a five-star rating, I can’t wait for the next, and might just have to so a re-read of a series to tide me over.
I want my own Ace!! This story was intense and exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat from the first sentence. I want Piper as my best friend and I want a man like Ace in my life. Their story is heartbreaking, inspirational and full of so much love my emotion were all over the place. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ!!
WOW!!! Welcome to one of the best reads/listens I have had in quite a while!!
This is book number 3 in Susan Stokers Seals of Protection:Legacy series (unless you count the novella Securing Brenae), then this is number 4 in the series.
This story is about Beckett Morgan(Ace-wait until you hear the story for that name) and Piper Johnson.
This is a true Susan Stoker full sized novel. It has everything in it (woman, man, mans teammates, kids, jungle rescue, rebels hell Bent on killing everyone, best friends, weddings, creepy crawlers, orphanages, grief, joy, bar scat crazy dads, forgiveness, and miracles).
There really is no way to say much without giving anything away.
She is visiting her bestie, rebels show up and poop hits the fan. The guys show up to save the day. Piper was hiding out with 3 orphans. She decides to adopt them. But she’s a single woman. Her bestie was killed by the rebels and the besties dad is completely distraught. The story goes on from there, and is sooooooooooo good (claps hands wildly wanting to tell you EVERYTHING!!!)
Will Piper get to adopt “her girls”?
Does Ace save them from the rebels?
Is the besties dad ok?
Can Piper and Ace save their family, now that they have what they fought so hard for?
OMG!!! People!!! The ending… just… ugh!!! What can I say to get you to go 1 click this story and be amazed at the sheer brilliance of this author with this story?!?
This story, while being a Susan Stoker story is NOT PREDICTABLE!!!! I made some great, on point calls…then the author zigged when I totally saw a zag coming a mile away!!!
Go!! Go one click right now!!
I’ll wait here
There are some authors you enjoy but then you find their books become a little samey but then you find others who you devour as you realise 50+ books down the line, depending on the author, the books Are as well written as the first one you read. Susan’s books are no exception. They have everything you need, plot twists, a cliffhanger as you devour page after page, angst, danger, love, shock and a whole range of emotions. Piper was a fantastic character who was smart and caring especially with the three children who she saved at the orphanage. Her friend being no where to be found and not knowing what to do, she is saved by a team of seals and Ace takes the lead with her. The plight of what the children go through within the country was mentioned, an unstable person brings discord to not only piper and the girls lives but to also the seals. It was great to see Tex doing what he does best. But I have to say OMG after the epilogue. I was really hoping but wasn’t to sure but OMG. I can’t wait for any of the next books out. A fantastic read from start to finish.