Seal of My Dreams

Description courtesy of Goodreads

Honor, duty, courage, passion . . . the men of the Navy SEALs are a special breed of hero, and in these novellas by eighteen top romance authors the SEALs are celebrated not only as symbols of devoted service to their country but as the kind of men every woman wants to love. They’ll rescue a damsel in distress and her lap dog, too. They’ll battle hometown dramas and international bad guys. When it comes to giving away their hearts, they’ll risk everything.

All proceeds from sales of SEAL of My Dreams go to the Veterans Research Corporation, a non-profit fundraiser for veterans’ medical research.

Between them, the authors of SEAL of My Dreams have won dozens of writing awards including multiple RITAs from Romance Writers of America. Their nearly 600 published novels have sold at least 35 million copies worldwide. The SEAL of My Dreams roster includes many of the best-known authors in modern romance fiction. In addition, many have strong family connections to the servicemen and women of our nation’s military, and many specialize in novels featuring heroes and heroines from all branches of service

I love a good anthology, stories that I can read in between errands on an incredibly busy weekend?  SCORE!  Then you add in Navy Seals?  Double SCORE!  Don’t even get me started on Seaman Yummy on the cover (a real SEAL getting ready for a mission).

This is a great group of eighteen authors who got together to do a great thing to benefit Veterans Research Corporation.  Even better for me is the fact that I’ve only read 3 of these authors previously so now I have a number of backlists to check out.

It’s got to be hard to write a story including enough history to grab the reader’s attention, develop characters that will jump off the page and include a plot of some sort in 25 pages or less.  Some of these stories not only met that expectation, they blew all the way past it into “I can’t stop thinking about…” territory.  Some of the stories may have worked better in a novel or novella length, but all of the stories were enjoyable for one reason or another.  I find that rare in an anthology.

The stories are sweet, poignant, sad, downright heartbreaking and laugh out loud funny.  Come on, you know you want to pick this up and help out a great cause, right?

ARC courtesy of Bell Bridge Books via NetGalley