Issued to the Bride: One Navy SEAL has one rather... absurd premise. But once you accept the premise as... "it may work", the story started to make sense. And old characters like Cap and Rose and all the other characters make guest appearances, and the bad guys... well, are bad but believably bad!
To recap, Brian Lake is a SEAL... but won't be for much longer. His last mission was a total PR disaster, and he'd been relegated into a post where he will push paper until he was... "encouraged to retire". He always wanted a ranch after his father lost theirs when he was 14, and now he will never get the chance... Until General Augustus Reed ordered him on a special mission... Infiltrate his family ranch "Two Willows" in Chance Creek, Montana, secure his five daughters, for something is very wrong in town, and General Reed, a busy man, had neglected his daughters for too long. Officially, Lake is there to fix up the house. Unofficially, he's there to marry Cass, for the ranch was everything he dreamed of. But Cass was not ready to trust any man, much less a spy sent by her father. Cass had fallen for the previous foreman, Bob, who embezzled 30000 from the ranch, and the ranch hands he hired show no respect to the five daughters, each of whom has a special talent, yet all of them seem to have bad boyfriends. Cass found out about the embezzling and kicked Bob out, but Bob was spreading rumors in town about their engagement and may have hidden something on the ranch. Lake's arrival sent Cass into a tailspin. Lake is like no other men she knew. He can kick ass and take names... but also help her without reservation, as well as treat her sisters with respect. But Lake is but one man, and Lake will have to call upon his combat training to protect the ones he loves...
The premise is really far-fetched. A general sends armed forces rejects to his Montana ranch to romance his own daughters? But you can think of it as giving these rejects, many of whom just had a tough break, a second chance, and what better place than Chance Creek? Once the plot got rolling, it got a lot better, much better, but the different "bad boyfriends" were... let's just say... NOT a coincidence! The shootout at the end, however, was slightly underwhelming. And at least this series is NOT preachy (unlike that last series).
Category: Contemporary / military
Primary Plot: SEAL gets his toughest assignment: romance the General's daughter and keep his family safe!
Tropes: SEAL, different worlds, disguise, small town, protector, woman in peril
Overall Rating: 4/5
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