Review: A 5 stars read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2013
Ms Echart originally wrote this novel back in 2007 titled The Captain's Lady. She received the rights back and the storyline is the same but she did rewrite and change some parts back to the original intent of the story.Saved- May 11 2013This is an unusual story that will capture you from the beginning and way to the end.The reader gets a sensitive storyline without falling back on coarse, graphic descriptions. And the secondary storyline is done equally well.Captain Eric Hamilton is a powerful force in the U.S. Navy, having earned himself a reputation of being a hard-nosed chauvinist. He's commander of the USS Larsen, a destroyer.Abby Carlton has just escaped from the man who held her captive for a year. Abducted while traveling in Paris, she was given to an Arab man as a gift, until one night she makes her desperate escape. While on patrol one morning Captain Eric Hamilton discovers a dinghy floating aimlessly. Abby is found, battered and is 8 months pregnant, lying in the bottom of the dinghy. From the moment she is laid on the deck of his ship her honest innocence finds a way to penetrate his hardened heart.Eric is falsely accused of sexual assault and the CIA wants Abby and the baby for bait to flush out her captor, who is suspected of recent terrorist activity in the gulf.Eric will do everything he can to protect her and keep her on his ship.I loved the suspense and how it went into the topic of abducted women trafficking and how the military justice system works and the protocols that have to be followed in different situations.Eric is so a Alpha male and a gorgeous hunk and I was very happy with the way he felt about Abby from the start. He's such an honorable man. His views about women in the NAVY was way out there old fashion but he was just being honest and in your face about his opinion. That honesty is why his whole crew loved and respected him so much.Abby was a strong woman that was able to pick herself up and do the best she could with what she had. I already loved her but she completely won me over when she showed what a great mother she was to her baby.I think that the plot involving the man who had bought Abby and was the father of her child was left as a pretty big loose end. Also I think that Abby probably should have had a little more reticence about sexual intimacy after her experience in captivity and I would have liked to see a little more closure with that whole situation. Also, I felt like I didn't really get to see why Gail Carruthers, the sailor who filed the sexual harrassment charge, was so loony, and so mad. I would have liked more insight into that situation.But over all I really enjoyed this Novel cause it got your emotion involved and if you like military and suspense then this is for you.