I've always been a sucker for an amnesia story. This is one of the better ones. I'm currently rereading these stories since I bought ebook versions. I love how Mitch (love the name) thinks he's a bad guy but is willing to turn himself in to save Becca (hate the name). Sacrifice for love is another favorite. Good details on the horse element. (Hey I had a horse named Silver too and I also did not name him that.) Getting the horse stuff wrong will turn me virulently against a book. The series starts here and in the last book showing elements that eventually make her Troubleshooters series so good, i.e., there are scenes from the POVs of others of Team 10 who will eventually get their own books. I love getting to know characters over the course of several books so that I am more excited and vested in their stories when they eventually come around. I also like it when the SEAL (as here) has to swim as part of the mystery/suspense element. Hey they're Navy SEALs, let's see them do their thing. ( )

Typical SEALs book from Brockmann. While the Tall, Dark, & Dangerous books are definitely formula books, the characters kinda suck you in. ( )

I liked this one--a quick read, but fun. I thought the amnesia was done well--the dreams/memories were cleverly written to keep Mitch guessing whether he was a good guy or not. It seemed fitting that he'd be the guy to develop amnesia, since no one on the team seemed to know much about him at all--put them all in the same boat, so to speak (Navy SEALs on a boat, get it? Sorry, I have a splitting headache today. Makes me loopier than usual.) Anyway--the romance developed a bit too quickly, but hey, he's a SEAL, so can you blame her? and Mitch clearly was coming off of a looong dry spell (and even if he wasn't, he had amnesia. He couldn't remember the last time ;-))...so, yeah. All of the covers for this one make me cringe, so I'm glad I read the Tall, Dark, and Dangerous: Part Two eversion from the library that only has one military-ish guy, looking off pensively into the distance. (Is pensively even a word? Again, I'm pleading headache. Don't tell any English teachers you know on me.)

And two books in a row with Rebeccas in them! Total coincidence, honest. ( )

It's kind of awkward/annoying at the beginning, and again when she finds out he's not Casey Parker. But overall, this is one of my favorites of this series. I love amnesia stories, and Mish's slow discovery of who he is is really well set up. And Becca is great - though it could have been better established that she usually handles a relationship differently. She _says_ she can handle a short-term affair, but it's not really shown - but then, it would take a much longer book to show it. Good story. ( )

DESCRIPTION, NOT REVIEW: Can she create a future with a man without a past?
Navy SEAL Mitchell Shaw wakes up one morning without a clue who he is. And the items in his possession are no help: an address he doesn't recognize and a .22-caliber sidearm. But the address eventually leads him to the Lazy 8 Ranch—and its beautiful manager, Becca Keyes, who makes him believe he might have a future, even if he doesn't remember his past. ( )