GRR Reviews Call to Honor (A Team Poseidon Novel) by Tawny Weber

Call to Honor is a contemporary "Navy SEALs" romantic suspense that unfortunately relied on "SEAL abuse" (i.e. having SEALs breaking posse commitatus or other things un SEAL-like) to work the plot about SEAL doing undercover investigations. I also find the idea of yet ANOTHER elite team of SEALs (who are already the Elite) a bit cliche.

To recap, Diego Torres is part of Team Poseidon, an elite group of US Navy SEALs (who's already pretty darn elite) that takes on the toughest assignments. But a botched mission and a casualty on the team (with a lost body) pointed to something sinister: there is a traitor in their midst. And after repeated checks, the only viable suspect is the guy that's MIA (with no body), and the suspicion immediately fell on single mom Harper Maclean, who knew the missing guy. So Diego goes undercover... pose as a security specialist and move in next door to Harper, and befriends her son Nathan. Soon they got intimate, and while Diego was sure that Harper was innocent, circumstantial evidence seems to point the other way... But if not Harper, then who is the traitor?

The romance and hidden identities parts work fine. My problem is with the overall idea of SEAL working undercover... IN THE US! The job of rooting out a traitor belongs to NCIS! They're the ones who go undercover! And the overall plot about suspecting a single mom as the traitor's spy conduit just sounds unlikely in the extreme!

Category: Contemporary / Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: SEAL trying to uncover a traitor had to befriend a single mom and see if she's the link, but falls for her and her son instead

Tropes: SEAL, disguise, single parent, conspiracy

Overall Rating:  3/5