Navy SEAL Boone Rudman and his friends want to create a sustainable community that can be replicated anywhere in the world. But they need land, so when Martin Fulsom, leader of the Fulsom Foundation, offers them Westfield, a ranch in Montana, they agree to Fulsom’s condition that they document their progress on a reality television show.
Building the community will be hard enough, but Boone’s got another problem. Fulsom expects families to make up the population of the new town. Now Boone’s got to find a wife fast, before he loses his funding and his dream. So when he arrives at Westfield to find it already occupied by the startlingly beautiful, strangely attired Riley Eaton, he wonders if fate itself has provided him with an answer.
Riley Eaton is done with traffic jams and 24/7 workweeks. She loves Jane Austen’s novels, and she knows she’s not the only woman longing for a simpler, more beautiful life. When she discovers her friends are in the same frame of mind, she throws caution to the wind and invites them to Westfield, the ranch her uncle inherited long ago but has never lived in. Equipped with a key and a standing invitation to stay there whenever she likes, she gathers her friends, drives to Chance Creek, and gives up all things 21st century in order to open a Jane Austen-style bed-and-breakfast. She knows her absentee uncle will be thrilled with a new stream of income, and Westfield is perfect for Regency living, with its wide lawns, extensive gardens, and large ballroom. But when sexy, stubborn Boone shows up with plans to build a hyper-modern sustainable community on the ranch, it’s clear her Regency paradise is over before it even began.
Now Boone has 30 days to marry Riley or lose the ranch to developers, and Riley has three weeks to prepare for the bed-and-breakfast’s first guests or face bankruptcy. Can they overcome their prejudices to help each other? Or will their pride destroy both their futures?
An interesting take on a relevant topic along with a sweet second-chance romanc Boone a retired SEAL. He, and his brothers-in-arms, are building a sustainable community in Montana. There are several important caveats that the financial backer has made. One of those requires him to marry by June 1st and his good fortune is that Riley, his childhood friend and the girl he let get away, is back at Westfield, her old home, and right on the property. There are lots of obstacles to be worked out, not the least of which is meshing the sustainable community with Riley’s commitment…
I read for fun and am not interested in a political agenda story Wow, I spent money on this one. I can easily get a dose of political agendas anywhere on the internet. I don’t want to read about politics in a fiction book that’s supposed to be for entertainment. I slogged through this. I won’t be reading the rest of the series even tho I liked some of her other books and will think twice before I buy any of her others.
Confusing yet Proselytizing plot that combined going home, jilted lover, sustainable living… leaving little room for romance A Seal’s Oath tries to set up the beginning of a new romance series by introducing a new cast of characters but recycling Chance Creek Montana, a town where all of the author’s previous romances (cowboys, SEALs, and other Heroes) reside, but the amount of proselytizing about environment and minimalism (away from the rat race) confuses the romance and the extra wedding, extra crew, and the ball just completely diluted the darkest hour and made grand gesture virtually undetectable.Â