HOT SEAL Bride by Lynn Raye Harris

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A new standalone romance from New York Times Bestselling Author Lynn Raye Harris. Sexy, action-packed, and thrilling!

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For the past fourteen years, Princess Antonella Rossi has been a virtual prisoner. She has no friends, no fun, and she’s not allowed to leave her aunt and uncle’s Virginia compound without an escort. 

But today is her wedding day. A rich sheikh has bought her virginity, and with it her freedom. Any hope of independence Ella’s ever cherished will disappear the instant she faces him across the altar. With time running out and the wedding party gathering, Ella seizes the opportunity to run as far and fast as she can. 

Navy SEAL Cash “Money” McQuaid isn’t looking for trouble, but trouble always seems to find him. This time trouble is five foot four and wearing a wedding dress. Rescuing a runaway princess has consequences though, and with his face plastered on the evening news and his career on the line, he realizes there’s only one way out of this mess—he has to marry her! 

It’s a marriage in name only, just until he can clear his name and win Ella the freedom she seeks. But shacking up with a gorgeous virgin isn’t as easy as it seems, especially when the sparks snapping between them are hotter and more dangerous than anything Cash has ever experienced. By the time he realizes it’s too late to resist his virgin bride, an unseen enemy is intent on taking her away from him. 

Cash is gonna need all his skills—and his friends on the Hostile Operations Team—in order to rescue his princess bride and give her the happily-ever-after she deserves. 

The Hostile Operations Team is a covert military Black Ops unit. Their motto is Where None Dare. H.O.T. operators come from all branches of the military. The only criteria for membership: they must be the best of the best!

HOT SEAL Bride

Alpha protector romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌏
Character development: 😊😄🥹
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Princess Antionella Rossi (a.k.a. Ella) – her parents died when she eight years old and she grew up in the home of her uncle, aunt and cousins though was always treated as a burden and kept in a gilded cage. she was princess of a small sovereign nation near Italy called Capriola. When the people of the country decided on a new form of representative government, they exiled her family. Now that they were running out of money, they sold her to a wealthy foreigner who wanted to marry her for her virginity.

The Hero: Cash “Money” McQuaid – he was a Navy SEAL on the Hostile Operations Team (HOT). He grew up with a jerk of a father and a stepmother who hated him. He left as soon as he could and joined the Navy. He didn’t believe in love and hooked up with plenty of women but never wanted a real relationship. He was on his way to a friend’s cabin for a short fishing vacation.

The Story: Ella was in her wedding gown and getting ready to marry a foreign Sheik whom she didn’t want anything to do with when she saw her chance to escape. She ran from her uncle’s estate which she hadn’t left for years, stole a car and tried to get away. When her uncle’s guard catches up to her and runs her off the road, Cash pulls over to help the bride who was being pushed around. He offers to help her out of her situation.

I don’t usually like the virgin heroine books, but I did like the fact that Ella was running from her family and their guards, and a SEAL was helping her out. They end up getting married in Vegas to keep her away from her family and make her a U.S. Citizen. I loved how protective Cash was of Ella, though I disliked his struggle with wanting her but not wanting to take her virginity. She wanted him, so his struggle with holding back lest the innocent maiden get too many ideas of forever towards him if he slept with her, seemed dumb to me. Though overall the story was good.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Aiden Snow and Avery Caris. Aiden Snow is one of my favorite male narrators with a deep sexy voice. Avery Caris is perfect for Ella with a youthful sounding voice and a great narration style.

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