The Protective SEAL/Coming to Her Rescue by Katie Knight-reviews
THE PROTECTIVE SEAL
by Katie Knight
Genre: adult, contemporary, military, SEAL, romantic suspense
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 13, 2019
Jack Williams has never felt so lost. For him, being a Navy SEAL wasn’t just a job, it was a way of life. Protecting people had always been his strength, until a career-ending injury forced him into retirement. He’s struggling to start over when he stumbles across a car in a ditch, springing him back into action. Only this is no random citizen in distress. He knows the pretty face behind the wheel. Intimately. In fact, there’s a good chance the baby in her arms is his.
One year ago, Samantha Engel was forced into witness protection to escape her ruthless mob-boss father. Jack had been her protector, and seeing her again now, in desperate need of help, stirs up a flood of emotions that catch Jack off-guard. Scheduled to testify against her dad, Sam is now on the run. Her father’s offering a pretty penny to anyone who can silence her for good. Jack may not the protector he once was, but he knows one thing for sure: if Sam and her baby are in trouble, he’s not letting them out of his sight.
With tensions running high and temptations running higher, Sam readily puts her life in Jack’s capable hands. Once the only person she could trust, she’d feared her daughter would grow up never knowing the man she owed her life to. But being back in Jack’s arms—and his bed—makes her heart pound like no time has passed. With the mob threat closing in, Jack knows failure isn’t an option. But even if they survive, Jack will have to fight to find a way to keep Sam and her daughter under his protection, or risk having to say good-bye again—this time for good.
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REVIEW: THE PROTECTIVE SEAL by Katie Knight is a contemporary, adult, military romantic suspense story line in the author’s series of US Navy SEAL stories. This is US Navy SEAL Jack Williams, and Marine Biology undergrad Samantha Engel’s story line.
Told from three third person perspectives including Jack and Samantha THE PROTECTIVE SEAL follows Samantha Engel, the daughter of Chicago mobster Stefan Engel, as she is forced into witness protection in an effort to escape the wrath of her murderous father. Approximately eighteen months earlier our heroine found herself rescued from the Costa Rican village by a Team of US Navy SEALs where she will come face to face with her future, Jack Williams. Fast forward to present day wherein Samantha’s life hangs precariously in the balance as her father plots her demise from inside his prison cell leaving our heroine on the run for her life, along with that of her six month old daughter’s. With no where else to go Samantha lands in Rally, Nebraska in the hopes of finding the man she hasn’t stopped thinking about. Enter former US Navy SEAL Jack Williams, and the man with whom Samantha will fall in love. What ensues is the rekindling relationship and romance between Samantha and Jack, and the potential fall-out as our couple struggle to stay one step ahead of the killers sent to destroy it all.
Samantha Engel has never stopped thinking about the man who saved her life all those months ago because one night of passion gave Samantha something more precious than anyone could have imagined. Desperate to protect her daughter and her life, Samantha battles between head and heart knowing she would bring with her danger and death at every turn. Jack Williams had no idea he was a father but seeing Samantha’s daughter he knew immediately the child was his. With a family to protect, Jack becomes guardian and protector to save the woman with whom he would fall in love.
WE are introduced to Jack’s friend, former Navy SEAL and US marshal Zeke Taylor, as well as Samantha’s father Stefan Engel, and a large number of agents and assassins sent to take out our story line heroine.
THE PROTECTIVE SEAL is a story of family, betrayal, power and control. The fast paced premise is energetic and engaging; the characters are colorful and strong; the second chance romance is steamy and passionate. THE PROTECT SEAL is an intriguing and suspense filled story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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COMING TO HER RESCUE
by Katie Knight
Genre: adult, contemporary, military, SEAL, romantic suspense
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 9, 2019
When Navy SEAL Jake Hendrix attends a charity bachelor/bachelorette auction as a favor for a friend, he’s stunned to see his squad mate’s gorgeous sister, Hanna Masterson, walk across the stage. She’s grown even more stunning in the years since he’d met (and very nearly made out with) her at the end of basic training. When Jake overhears other bidders talking about her, his alpha protector instinct kicks in and he decides to bid on her himself. He thinks he’s saving her. What he didn’t expect was how upset she’d be at him.
Hanna has developed a checklist of qualities she wants in a man. Someone reliable, dependable, and family oriented who can provide for her and their children. She doesn’t need the likes of Jake Hendrix—smoking hot as he is—getting in the way of her man hunt. She’d been hoping the auction might pair her with a potential long-term match, but alas she just got her brother’s hot squad mate who has “one night only” written all over him.
But the date actually goes well—really well. Best sex of her life well. But the following day, Jake immediately pulls back, just as she expected. Romance only gets in the way of doing his job: protection has no room for passion. Resigned to their night together being nothing more than a blip in the road, Hanna’s unsettled when a pregnancy test turns that blip into a major speedbump.
Before she can tell Jake she’s pregnant, something far more unexpected lands on her plate. One of her high-profile clients has been murdered, and because he’s shared certain information with Hanna, the killers will stop at nothing to silence her.
Despite his promises to stay uninvolved, Jake can’t help but protect Hanna, baby bump and all, insisting they go on the run as they dig deeper into the dangerous situation they’ve found themselves in. But as the threat closes in on their secluded safe house, their biggest problem might just be falling in love and losing it all…
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REVIEW: COMING TO HER RESCUE by Katie Knight is another instalment in the author’s series focusing on the US Navy SEALs. This is Navy SEAL Jake Hendrix, and therapist Hanna Masterson’s story line. All of Katie’s SEAL stories can be read as stand alone without any difficulty.
Told from dual third person perspective (Jake and Hanna) COMING TO HER RESCUE follows the best friend’s little sister relationship between Navy SEAL Jake Hendrix, and therapist Hanna Masterson. Jake was invited to a bachelorette auction but was shocked when one of the contestants was his fellow SEAL’s little sister Hanna Masterson. Overhearing the rude and sexually explicit comments from the other bachelors in the audience Jake makes the winning bid to protect Hanna from the a potential disaster but Hanna isn’t impressed when she discovers Jake is the winning bid. What ensues is the building relationship and romance between Jake and Hanna, and the potential fall-out as Hanna is targeted for who she is, and who she knows.
Hanna Masterson is twenty six years old and believes she will find her soul-mate at the charity bachelorette auction but what she never anticipated was her life-long crush, a man who rejected her years before. Hanna made a list of attributes for a potential mate but Jake didn’t check all of the boxes including family and future stability. Jake Hendrix doesn’t do relationships: constantly on duty and ready to go at a moments notice, Jake isn’t willing to force any partner to deal with the emotional ramifications of going it –alone.
The relationship between Jake and Hanna is one of immediate attraction but Jake’s rejection of Hanna years earlier still hurts, a hurt Hanna struggles to forget. But one night together results in an unplanned pregnancy, and Jake finds himself protector of the woman with whom he will fall in love, and the child she now carries. When threats against Hanna become violent and physical, Jake calls in help from people he knows.
COMING TO HER RESCUE is a story of family, heart break, betrayal and control. The premise is engaging; the characters are energetic; the romance struggles in the face of indecision, and the back and forth emotional upheaval of want, need, independence and control. The conflict resolution was a little too clean and neat- I was hoping for something more.
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Reviews by Sandy
