Very good military romantic suspense

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	• Forget Me Not (Navy SEALs, Book 1) Marliss Melton Forever, 2004 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Story of a Man and a Hero,

I loved this book!

After one year of being announced "missing in action" Gabe Renault, a navy Seal, returns alive from the jaws of hell, after having been double crossed on enemy territory, in which one of his own team betrayed him. Gabe has endured a terrible year of torture. He has lost his memory, and does not remember the mission, or his wife and step daughter of 3 years. Upon his return Gabe begins to discover the kind of husband and father he was before his disappearance. He had always ignored Helen his wife, refusing to give her his love, or open up to her. He was always distant. He had even refused to legally adopt Helen's daughter Mallory, and been absent from Mallory's life for most of the time.

Helen Troy, is ready to rebuild her life. After one year of being MIA, her husband Gabe Renault was announced dead, just the week before. So it was with no small amount of shock that Helen learned that Gabe had just returned from the dead. She is wary of him, and she is bitter because of his mistreatment of her. While she had given him her love, he had ignored her and abandoned her, hence breaking her heart and shattering all the beautiful feelings she had harbored for him. Now she just wants to help him get better, and regain his memories, then they would get a divorce. He'll return to his life and work as a Seal, and she'll return to bask in her new gained independence. Helen is honest with Gabe, informing him that once he is better they will get a divorce.

And so the story starts, as Gabe struggles to come to terms with who he had been, and why. While this new "real" Gabe is not distant from his wife or daughter. He shows love, care and compassion towards them. Helen retains her wariness of him, as Gabe sets out to regain his family and prove to Helen that he really loves her. He just wants a second chance to prove to her how wrong he was. He had always assumed that allowing himself to feel and care would weaken him, but it was only his love for Helen that had sustained him through the terrible torture and imprisonment in the past year. Gabe loves his wife and his step daughter, and he will do all in his power to regain their affections and trust. They are the most important in his life, and nothing comes before them.

And we the readers get to see how Gabe and Helen get together, as they heal each other and have a chance at a new start. While Helen may seem a bit cold and distant through a good portion of the book, it was understandable due to her past experience with Gabe. And her fear that once Gabe regains his memories he would return to that distant man who had so callously broken her heart.

Gabe also has no memory of his last mission, leaving him vulnerable to the attacks of those who do not want him to remember. For someone is still out there waiting for the right moment to silence Gabe forever, before he can remember the truth and reveal it. This is the story of a hero and a man, who upon return from the jaws of hell, after one year, starts to rebuild his life on a journey of self discovery and love, while trying to stay alive and protect his family from a danger and an enemy he does not know. For only Gabe's memories can save him... if they do not kill him first...

A great romantic suspense read. Highly recommended!

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great read

I really enjoyed the characters. Ms Melton creates great settings and builds wonderful tension. Very enjoyable.

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Very good military romantic suspense

This is book 1 in Ms Melton's Navy SEALS series. I was decidedly entertained by the story. Lets just say that immediately upon finishing this one, I quickly ordered the other 3 books in this series and have book five on pre-order.
What I liked. I love books with alpha males.
This is one of the few books I've read aside from S. Brockmans where the author sucessfully intertwined the comraderie between a group of guys who work together and who are loyal friends as well as co-workers.
I like the 'lone wolf' hero's, but its kind of refreshing to read a book where a group of guys have friends and a 'regular life' outside work.
Others have already summarized the story well. I just wanted to add a note about a book thats not only a romantic suspense but a good friendship book as well.
I recommend this a all of Meltons Navy SEAL series.

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Wonderful Romance (Military style)

This was my first Marliss Melton book and I enjoyed it. Helen and Gabe (SEAL) were only married two years when he was listed as MIA (Missing in Action) and after almost one complete year, he returns. He battles Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other mental challenges while trying to rekindle the relationship he so badly neglected before his capture.

The suspense comes from his lack of ability to remember his wife and stepdaughter. He loved her before the capture, but some strange sense of manhood told him if he loved her too much he was neglecting his SEAL team, so he kept her at arms length.

He has flashbacks of his behavior and sees himself as a real jerk and tries to win back his family. I really liked how he handled the "Mallory Incident." And that's all I'll say on that.

It was a good read, well written and romantic with a touch of suspense in "who the bad guy is." I plan to read more in this series.

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Description: Gabe Renault doesn't know why he was in a prison camp. He has no memory of the past three years or of the Navy SEAL mission that went wrong. Only two things kept him going: thoughts of his wife and the certainty that he must escape.After Gabe is presumed dead, Helen Renault pulls the tattered pieces of her and her daughter's lives back together. Married young and for all the wrong reasons, she's standing on her own two feet at last#151;and proud of it. Then comes the biggest shock of all#151;Gabe returns home. Gone is the distant, secretive husband he once was. This new Gabe is a man she could easily#151;finally#151;lose her heart to. But his memory is slowly returning, exposing a trail of government treachery#133;and jeopardizing his and Helen's second chance at love.

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