She’s the last woman he ever wanted to see again… After an official operation turned deadly, Jonas Crow began a new life in Grizzly Harbor with Alaska Force. But when fellow soldier Bethan Wilcox joins the group, she forces him to remember things he actively prefers to forget. That’s unforgivable enough. But now the two of them are forced together on a mission to uncover deadly secrets tied to … uncover deadly secrets tied to their complicated past, and with the heat between them at a boil, forgiveness is the least of his worries…
And the only woman he needs.
Bethan Wilcox, one of the first women to make it through Army Ranger school, didn’t join Alaska Force to deal with Jonas’s foul temper. Or her own errant attraction to him. Thrown together in a race against the clock, they have to pretend to be a couple and play nice to throw the enemy off their scent. She knows better than to let their pretend love feel real…especially while time is running out.
Jonas has always been good at saving the world. But it’s Bethan he needs to save this time around—if she doesn’t save him first.
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Ok, this is now my fav book in the series! I loved Jonas and Bethan. It was such a great story and I could not stop reading it.
This series has one of my favorite first lines ever and I’m sad to see it end. Crane definitely takes us out with a bang with Jonas and Bethan. Tightly crafted with interwoven pieces you won’t see coming, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Crane is one of my go-tos for romantic suspense and this only cements that status.
He grew up neglected on the streets and made himself into an elite warrior. She grew up not fitting into the mold her wealthy parents wanted for her. Joining the Army started out as a rebellion but she made herself into the best of the best. Now they are working together at Alaska Force and things are tense between them.
Jonas is a hardass. He is tough on everyone but he is especially cold and tough on their one female operator even though she meets and often exceeds expectations at every turn. Bethan has never met a challenge she couldn’t meet except Jonas. When they are forced together on an undercover mission will they be able to adapt and overcome past animosities or will they let the past ruin their future? I loved Bethan and always wanted to be her. This book sucked me in and kept me flipping pages till the very end. Though it’s part of a series it can be read standalone.
This is the first book I’ve read by Megan Crane. It’s a great standalone. I am tempted to go find the others to read just so I know the backstory of the other couples mentioned in this one. I struggle with the star rating. I loved the characters as a whole. Jonas was a brooding, alpha man that didn’t know how to love or be loved. Bethan was a strong, confident female that struggled with relationships as well. We were able to watch both of them grow through the story. I loved what was revealed.
But the beginning and some in the end had a great amount of repetition. It was like the author was afraid we wouldn’t remember what was revealed prior. And her eluding to a past encounter between Bethan and Jonas was disjointed and confusing. I didn’t understand his reaction and thought it to be over the top. Also that does make Jonas seem sexist although we were told over and over he was not. His actions showed otherwise.
These issues were mostly the first of the book. It was easy to put down and struggle to pick back up the book to finish. But I pushed through and was glad I did. And from the wedding on, it took off to where I didn’t want to put it back down. That’s where I started to love the characters.
*I thank NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC of this book.
I liked Bethen I thought she was this hard @ss but also had this sweet side to her that only the very privileged got to see. The story was very predictable and to me sometimes all over the place. I found it hard to keep engaged in the story over all. I liked the Alaskan Force team and being able to catch up with those I have read about. I felt like the book seemed to have a lot of detail but also seemed to lack something. There was a situation between Bethan and Jonas that the author seemed to build on but when it came to head it really seemed minimal to what was really going on and made no sense for Jonas’ attitude to the situation. This book does have sexual content in it and may not be suitable for all. I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Loved the intensity of this romance!
Bethan’s battlefield encounter with Jonas years ago is the one thing Jonas wants to forget, despite the fact she is now working for the company he helped build. Then one mission happens to bisect with her military family, and the best approach to the mission is for her to attend her sister’s wedding with Jonas along as her date.
I absolutely adored Bethan in this story. She’s not afraid to tell Jonas exactly what she sees in his heart, yet there’s no anger or animosity, just lots of patience and understanding. Let me tell you, this approach throws Jonas way off his game and he just doesn’t know what to do with a woman who sees right through him.
The action and suspense are top-notch throughout the story, while the pacing beautifully alternates between the romance and mission danger. The last part of the book was so emotionally draining but I loved every bit of it, and nearly swooned at the HEA. This is exactly the kind of romantic suspense story I love to read, and I highly recommend it. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
I thoroughly enjoyed Bethan and Jonas’ amazing story in Special Ops Seduction by Megan Crane, book five in her Alaska Force series. This story had me on the edge, lost within, and not putting it down, as I drank in each page. Alaska Force is not the first time Jonas and Bethan have worked together. Like all members, both had been in the military and first met after Bethan pulled an injured Jonas from the wreckage of an IED explosion. She provided cover and protected him until he could be extracted. You might think he would have been grateful, instead he acts hostile towards her; he doesn’t like that she saw him at one of his weakest points, so he keeps her at arm’s length. Now the two of them are forced to work together on a mission to uncover fatal secrets that end up being tied to their past. Working together, as a “fake” couple, heats up the attraction and chemistry between these two to at least sizzle level.
Bethan is an interesting character. She rebelled against her father, was one of the first women to make it through Army Ranger school, was strong and independent, yet was a girlie girl inside; having the inside of her cabin painted pink with frills. She has closed herself off, not allowing others to see this part of her. Since their first meeting, Bethan has cared about Jonas, feelings that have grown over time to an attraction that she works hard to hide. Jonas had an awful childhood and was never taught how to love; at least by example. He doesn’t need anyone in his life, let alone give in to the feelings and magnetism he has for Bethan. Jonas has always been good at saving the world but this time he needs to save Bethan; if she doesn’t save him first.
Ms. Crane wrote an intense, emotional and exciting romantic suspense filled with sizzling chemistry, magnetism, wonderful dialogue, and endearing characters that is not to be missed. This story grabbed me and did not let go until I reached the end. I highly recommend Special Ops Seduction to other readers.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
*4.5 stars
Railing against love….
The Alaska Force series has become one of my favourite military-esque reads. Whether it is threats to themselves or their country, these brave men and women may prefer to be off the grid but they are always front of line when danger calls…
Jonas and Bethan had complicated history. With their families, with their own relationship. Both top of their fields, smart, strong and committed to duty, watching them skirt around each other with military precision was beyond entertaining. Was it as simple as man vs woman? Maybe. But it also wasn’t easy when Bethan forced Jonas, and herself, to dig through all the layers and find out what they were scared of.
Full of action and intrigue on an international scale, once again this tight-knit band of brothers (and sisters) in arms sorted it with humour, dedication and maybe some wine… So good!
*Reviewed for 1-Click Addict Support Group
**Thank you to NetGalley
Special Ops Seduction is the fifth novel in Megan Crane’s Alaska Force series, it’s the fourth book in the series I’ve read, and in this reader’s opinion, it’s the best novel in the series to date, and it gets a 5-star rating.
My complaints about the unlikable heroine’s in books #3 and #4 don’t apply here–I simply loved Bethan, the oldest daughter of a 4-star Air Force General, from a very wealthy family, but one who never seemed to fit into the niche her family expected. Instead, she joined the army, eventually becoming the first woman to successfully complete brutal Army Ranger training. After a mission gone horribly wrong, she managed to save the life of the only person to survive the attack on the convoy–a badly wounded Jonas Crow, whom we’ve met briefly in the earlier novels, and Bethan managed to keep him alive and safe until rescue arrived the next day.
Bethan applied to and was eventually accepted as a member of Alaska Force, and was surprised to discover that Jonas was already a member of the team. He sent her away as soon as he arrived at a hospital after their rescue. To say he wasn’t happy to see her is putting it mildly, and he’s been avoiding her and giving her the cold shoulder ever since. Bethan assumes that Jonas didn’t take being rescued by a woman well, and that he can’t seem to get past it, so she puts on a brave face and does her best to avoid him whenever possible. Sadly, she’s strongly attracted to the taciturn man, but manages to keep it to herself, at least until Jonas volunteers to escort Bethan to her sister’s wedding, as her date, since she’s the maid of honor.
I’ve been craving more character development in the previous couple of Alaska Forced novels, and we get it in spades in this one. We learn why Jonas is as uptight and closed-off in detail, and his life before joining the military is the exact opposite of the life of privilege and elegance Bethan was born into, and the week he spends among her family, seeing their wealth, their amazing home which looks more like a luxury resort hotel, and spending time pretending to be Bethan’s boyfriend forces him to be closer to Bethan than he’s been in all the years since she saved his life, and his walls of resistance to her start to crumble.
In addition to the wedding festivities, other members of Alaska Force are involved in covertly studying some of the guests, since not all of them are quite what they appear to be, and what they, Bethan and Jonas soon uncover about one of the guests sets them off on as deadly and dangerous a mission as the team has yet become involved in, and when the action heats up (outside of Bethan’s bedroom, that is), this novel becomes one heck of a thrilling action and suspense novel that was impossible to put down, which is why I’m writing this review at 6:00 a.m., having just finished reading it.
The life and death race to the finish of this novel was a complete mind-blower for this reader, and there was no way I could simply fall asleep with all of it (including the HEA ending) still spinning in my head–so be forewarned, this is not a novel you will soon forget, nor will you soon forget two of the most memorable characters in this series. Bravo, Megan Crane, you knocked this one right out of the park!
Bethan Wilcox, one of the first women to make it through Army Ranger school and Jonas Crow have a past history, a history of a life or death situation. Now that they both are members of Alaska Force the past needs to be addressed. Their latest mission: pose as a couple at Bethan’s sister’s wedding to ferret out information about a missing scientist. This is not an easy mission. I would have liked to have seen a bit more action in this story.
3.5 stars
Bethan Wilcox is the first woman to make it through Army Ranger training. Growing up with an air force General for a father, she went into the army. Years ago she saved a fellow soldier in the desert of Afghanistan. Jonas Crow was in the Delta Forces and they were hit with an IED. He is quiet and very dangerous. He hasn’t forgiven Bethan for saving him and when she joins the Alaska Force, he doesn’t change any. When they rescue a scientists sister and then find him and put them in a safe house, they disappear again without a trace. So the key players are going to be at a wedding in California. The wedding happens to be Bethan’s sisters and her and Jonas go undercover as a couple. Once they figure out who the bad guy is, it’s a countdown to find out his plans.
Now if this doesn’t make a lot of sense, I’m sorry. This book had me confused from page one. Jonas was constantly telling why he could not feel feelings. He was a total jerk to Bethan. Lots of action and suspense and a little bit of sex.
* Voluntarily read and reviewed this for NetGalley *
This is book 5 of this series. Really well written storyline with great characters. Jonas goes to Alaska to live and join the special ops team there after the operation he was involved in caused the deaths of the team. Bethan joins the group and causes him to look back on the incident and remember. a good romance between them . fast paced story and kept my attention throughout. Hope there will be more.