Review: Forged in Fire by Trish McCallan

Forged in Fire (Red-Hot SEALs #1) by Trish McCallan
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: July 11, 2012

Red-Hot SEALs
1. Forged in Fire - Paperback | Kindle
2. Forged in Ash
3. Forged in Smoke
4. Forged in Ember

Trish McCallan
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Beth Brown doesn’t believe in premonitions until she dreams a sexy stranger is gunned down during the brutal hijacking of a commercial airliner. When events in her dream start coming true, she heads to the flight’s departure gate. To her shock, she recognizes the man she’d watched die the night before.

Lieutenant Commander Zane Winters comes from a bloodline of elite warriors with psychic abilities. When Zane and two of his platoon buddies arrive at Sea-Tac Airport, he has a vision of his teammates’ corpses. Then she arrives—a leggy blonde who sets off a different kind of alarm.

As Beth teams up with Zane, they discover the hijacking is the first step in a secret cartel’s deadly global agenda and that key personnel within the FBI are compromised. To survive the forces mobilizing against them, Beth will need to open herself to a psychic connection with the sexy SEAL who claims to be her soul mate.

My Thoughts: Holy hotness, Batman! Where did that beginning come from? Wow! From the first moment that Zane sets eyes on Beth things felt steamy. *fans self* And then they talk to one another and the steam turned into flat-out flames. If those two had been any more intense, I don't think the airport would have been left standing.

Zane and his team are awesomely Alpha and they move to contain the threat that arises quickly. Although this is Zane and Beth's story, the team is unquestionably a team and they face all the hurdles thrown at them together. I loved that they accepted Beth's dream with very little argument. I loved the little flashes of normalcy that each man brought to the table as well as the focused training that made them elite soldiers. It made them feel human and real.

This book tackles some dark subject matter but I liked that the victims were able to hold it together and be strong in the face of the terror that's inflicted on them. I'm excited to see how they fare in later books.

Seriously, I was DYING to read the next book in the series as soon as I finished this one. It's fun, hot, sexy, bloody, full of action and the final revelations left me wide-eyed and wondering how the team was going to finagle their way out of the rather sticky situation that looks to be brewing on the horizon. I'm ready. Bring it.