Julie Ann Walker

Brand new hot romantic suspense from New York Timesand USA Todaybestselling author Julie Ann Walker Weary of being a fighting man, and burned by a bad divorce, former SEAL Mason "Monet" McCarthy is tight-lipped and self-contained. Unfortunately, he can't avoid Alexis Merriweather when she joins him and his business partners in the hunt for the Santa Cristina. Historian Alexis Merriweather has a motor-mouth and a penchant for pushing Mason's buttons. When a dangerous man from Mason's past threatens their lives and everything they are working toward, Mason must rely on old instincts and the skills honed from years running black ops to make sure nothing from his previous life touches Alexis's present. Of course, with their lives on the line and the adrenaline running high, it's a foregone conclusion sparks will fly. The Deep Six series: Hell or High Water (Book 1) Devil and the Deep (Book 2) Ride the Tide (Book 3) "Mouthwatering characters.. the romance simmers...a page-turning adventure."--Night Owl Reviews Top Pick for Hell or High Water

Ride the Tide

Nicola Sarah Brooks

The search for the Santa Cristina continues! But it's very much a backdrop for Mason and Alex's story because the danger isn't coming from other treasure hunters or megalomaniac billionaires or any of the regular bad guys. This threat is from Mason's past, an enemy he may not even be aware he has!

Mason may be an epic former SEAL and frogman extraordinaire but he lacks tact and diplomacy! He really should have handled Alex's proposal a lot better. I mean it's not every day a girl asks someone she trusts to get rid of dratted v-card for her. She went to someone she cared about, liked and knew would treat her well - as well as give her lots of O's!

Alex is by turns goofy, geeky, sweetly sexy, and downright pit-bullish! She really has no concept of no sometimes. She really revels in pushing Mason's buttons. But she could land herself in hot water, especially if she keeps "hocking the wares" to any hot-blooded, single man on the team. Cos is any of them take her up on that proposal Mason will no doubt kill him!

Mason feels he'll never be enough for any woman, between his PTSD and hellish previous marriage, he's got a big old chip on his shoulder. Alex really is like an annoying genius wunderkind little sister to the team but with Mason, it's never been a family feeling, more an unrequited lust! 

I did feel the whole v-card thing kinda took over the book at times and Alex sheer desperation would have been a put off for most blokes. But the sheer amount of times she's rejected before the kind of fumbling declaration of love by Mason would have left a lesser woman in tatters.

I did enjoy the book but I just felt that maybe a less desperate Alex and more forthcoming Mason may have made it more plausible and enjoyable. The non romance strands of the book were great as usual and I'm really looking forward to Chrissie and Wolf's story. And of course, Romeo - you just know he's going to go down kicking and screaming!