GRR Reviews Her SEALed Fate (Sutton Capital Book 7) by Lori Ryan

Her SEALed Fate is a contemporary office romance featuring an ex-SEAL financial exec and ex-Hacker IT woman, both of whom were marked for death by a crime family wanting payback. I have slight problem with a PTSD'ed SEAL turning into a financial exec, but other than that, the story was nicely paced with both FMC and MMC managed to solve their problems... mostly, with good twists and turns.

To recap, Logan Stone is a retired SEAL working as a new executive in Sutton Capital, but he's battling PTSD, and can't afford distractions, like the way-too-distracting Samantha Page, head of IT. Neither knew the other's secrets... Logan was temporarily assigned to a blacker-than-black ops to capture head of a crime family. It sent so-sideways, entire team was wounded, one dead, and the crime family (including son, wife, and smaller children) was wiped out except for two members who were not there at the time. And Sam... was a renowned but anonymous hacker who helped the team tracked down the crime family, among other deeds helping the FBI and other agencies. And now the survivors of the family decided to come after them for revenge... Now Logan must fight through his own issues, in order to save Sam and himself, esp. when Sam disappeared for two weeks... where was she hiding and what was she doing?

The book's hacking was a bit cavalier but sufficient to get the point across without technically inaccurate (merely glossed over). Same with ex-SEAL references. Why SEALs are deployed against a crime family (that's a law enforcement function, not military) was never explained. How the crime family managed to track down the good guys was left vague, but that's again, glossed over. But some of the twists are actually pretty good. All in all, above average romantic suspense.

Category: Romantic suspense

Primary Plot: PTSD'ed ex-SEAL starting new job as exec falls for the IT head woman; then his enemies came after them both...

Tropes: SEAL, revenge, evil enemies, co-worker, disguise

Overall Rating:  4/5 (rounded up)