Series where each member of a team of military special forces types find love in their turn, with an overarching mystery arc which gets solved piece by piece throughout the series, are pretty staple fare in romantic suspense (see Suzanne Brockmann for someone who does it amazingly well). Generally, the romance in each book stands alone but you might struggle a little bit to pick up the overall mystery if you don’t start at the first book in the series. One Dark Wish doesn’t e

So K-9 romances are my catnip, which means Ethan, the Air Force hero of this story, and his service dog Sam should be right up my alley. Problem is that Sam appears in exactly one scene in this book, since all the action takes place off base and military service dogs live in kennels rather than with their handlers. Apart from that one scene, it really doesn't matter what Ethan does in the armed forces, only that he's a serviceman, because Isabella, the heroine, has vowed neve

This is the second in the Brothers In Arms Security series. That said, the characters in SEAL Protector stand very well on their own, though the storyline is clearly continued from the first book (which I haven't read) and ends up with the underlying suspense plot unresolved, clearly to be resolved in the third book. I'm not a huge fan of this sort of thing; I really prefer each book in a series to be able to stand completely on its own merits. The romance in this one does so

I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING. OK, dammit, I'm crying. I don't get weepy too often over books but the epilogue to this one is an absolute tearjerker. I'm a sucker for military romances, especially for Army Rangers (see my own Ranger Heat trilogy, and I've got an upcoming book called Ranger's Rescue!) and Jesse Moretti is the ultimate hero. Suffering PTSD after a difficult childhood and a tough military career, still he can't help from being a hero; a ski and mountain ranger,