Review SEALed with a Kiss by Mary Daughtridge

SEALed with a Kiss by Mary Daughtridge is a warm-hearted, lovely story filled with genuine characters and a lot of love.

It's a story that makes you glad you read it. The story-line is believable and the characters' falling in love is equally so.

I enjoy the books by Suzanne Brockman, so I thought I might enjoy this series. This is more a love story than a story about the military SEALs, though the main character's SEAL training comes in handy in the end.

Navy SEAL Jax Graham has been given an ultimatum by his commanding officer: fix the situation with his 4 year old son, no excuses. Jax' ex-wife has died. She had kept his visitation to a minimum and his job had kept it even further. A SEAL never knows when he must be ready to go at a moment's notice. Her mother will gain custody, but that is not a good situation.

So Jax takes his 2 week vacation, on orders, with his son.

Family therapist Pickett Sessoms is in the same place, at the same time, closing a beach cottage against a coming hurricane. She enters the equation, helping Jax regain his confidence as a father, while he learns how to talk to his son, who is smart enough to know a few things, but too young to connect the dots.

There wasn't much that was contrived or hard to believe in this book. The characters are well drawn, and their awakening to love comes naturally and at an acceptable pace.

These are people you really care about, as the story moves forward. Even the dogs are well drawn.

In many ways the love in this story reminds me of the love that is in Morning Glory by LaVryle Spencer. The characters have fully lived, picking up wounds along the way. Each of them heals wounds of the other, gently and with love.

Have you read the book or any others of Daughtridge? I will be reading more in this series.

Head's up: the ex-mother-in-law drinks and is verbally abusive to her little grandson; Pickett has celiac disease, which is mentioned, but not to distraction...

I give it a 5 out of 5.

The book is available for Kindle.

See my review of SEALed with a Promise here.

Karin
www.savvythinker.com

Originally posted 2010-05-21 23:04:33.

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