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Forget Me Not (SEAL Team 12 #1)
A Hero's Nightmare Gabe Renault doesn't know why he was in a prison camp. He has no memory of the past three years or of the Navy Seal mission that went wrong. Only two things kept him going: thoughts of his wife and the certainty that he must escape. A Sudden Homecoming After Gabe is presumed dead, Helen Renault pulls the tattered pieces of her and her daughter's lives ba...more
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Published
December 1st 2004
by Forever
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Opening Line:"Gunfire rained down on the four-man SEAL squad, ricocheting off the concrete floor and metal walls of the warehouse in Pyongyang Harbour, North Korea.”
Navy SEAL Gabe Renault has no memory of the last three years. He doesn’t remember the mission that went wrong landing him in a North Korean prison camp and he certainly doesn’t remember having a wife and teenage daughter. And while the scars on his body tell a tale of torture he has no idea what they did to him or if he eventually br...more
Navy SEAL Gabe Renault has no memory of the last three years. He doesn’t remember the mission that went wrong landing him in a North Korean prison camp and he certainly doesn’t remember having a wife and teenage daughter. And while the scars on his body tell a tale of torture he has no idea what they did to him or if he eventually br...more
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Forget Me Not is an entertaining, fast-paced, romantic suspense novel that focuses on a group of U.S. Navy SEALS. It is the first book in the Seal Team 12 series.
The hero, Gabe Renault, is believed dead after a SEALS mission that went wrong. Gabe had dedicated his life to his SEALS team while letting his relationship with his wife and daughter suffer. Gabe was an emotionally aloof man who believed that to feel and show love for his family was to make him weak. Helen Renault was disillusioned wi...more
The hero, Gabe Renault, is believed dead after a SEALS mission that went wrong. Gabe had dedicated his life to his SEALS team while letting his relationship with his wife and daughter suffer. Gabe was an emotionally aloof man who believed that to feel and show love for his family was to make him weak. Helen Renault was disillusioned wi...more
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Mar 04, 2009
Shawna
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Fans of military romance/suspense
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4 ½-5 stars – Romantic Suspense
Forget Me Not, the first book in Melton’s SEAL Team military romance series, is a great romantic suspense read. I had read book #4, Next to Die, without realizing that it was part of a series and was a little bit lost in regards to the characters, so I would recommend reading them in order. This story focuses on Navy SEAL Gabe’s tumultuous return to his estranged wife and stepdaughter after being betrayed on a mission, tortured, and presumed dead. It’s emotionally...more
Forget Me Not, the first book in Melton’s SEAL Team military romance series, is a great romantic suspense read. I had read book #4, Next to Die, without realizing that it was part of a series and was a little bit lost in regards to the characters, so I would recommend reading them in order. This story focuses on Navy SEAL Gabe’s tumultuous return to his estranged wife and stepdaughter after being betrayed on a mission, tortured, and presumed dead. It’s emotionally...more
okay, I am such a Sandra Brockmann fan that it's hard to switch to someone else's universe on the same theme, but the book was okay enough that I have reserved the next one in the series from the library.
In this first book of the series there is setup of the Navy Seals team that the books center around with bits of background thrown in for future books of the various players.
The storyline of this book follows Gabe who shows up a year after presumed dead with no memory of the previous 3 years to...more
In this first book of the series there is setup of the Navy Seals team that the books center around with bits of background thrown in for future books of the various players.
The storyline of this book follows Gabe who shows up a year after presumed dead with no memory of the previous 3 years to...more
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Das Navy Seals die bestaussehendsten, tollsten, romantischsten und muskulösten Männer sind, ist mir ja schon seit Operation Heartbreaker klar. Zum Glück hält auch Marliss Melton an diesem Mythos/Klischee fest. Denn mal ehrlich, über Männer, die ich sehe sobald ich die Wohnung verlasse, möchte ich nichts lesen. ;)
Doch ein wenig anders ist die Geschichte dann doch. Zumal, weil Gale und Helen schon verheiratet waren und sich nicht erst in einer Extremsituation kennenlernen und verlieben. Der Reiz d...more
Doch ein wenig anders ist die Geschichte dann doch. Zumal, weil Gale und Helen schon verheiratet waren und sich nicht erst in einer Extremsituation kennenlernen und verlieben. Der Reiz d...more
"Forget Me Not" by Marliss Melton is the first book in her "Navy SEALs Team Twelve" series. It started off with a bang (literally)...Lieutenant Gabe Renault and his four-man SEAL squad were on a mission gone bad in North Korea where Gabe was presumed dead in an explosion that ripped through a weapons warehouse. Fortunately, he survived the explosion. UNfortunately, he was captured by the North Koreans, held prisoner and tortured mercilessly. And as if that weren't bad enough, Gabe's predicament...more
Jul 16, 2012
Jessica
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Marliss Melton fans, Romantic suspense fans
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Okay, despite this being a typical amnesia/win-back-the-wife type romantic story, I really enjoyed this one. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I read it in a night. This is my first read from Marliss Melton, but I'll probably be getting more from her soon.
The synopsis:
Gabe is more married to his job as a Navy SEAL than he is to his wife, Helen. After a mission that goes bad, Gabe is held captive in North Korea and is put through unspeakable horrors. Meanwhile, Helen, who believes her husband is...more
The synopsis:
Gabe is more married to his job as a Navy SEAL than he is to his wife, Helen. After a mission that goes bad, Gabe is held captive in North Korea and is put through unspeakable horrors. Meanwhile, Helen, who believes her husband is...more
A week ago the Navy officer knocked on her door and handed her a neatly folded flag and expressed his condolences on the loss of her husband. But Helen is relieved; after a year of her Navy Seal husband being presumed dead she is finally free. The marriage she and Gabe shared had quickly deteriorated and the step-dad she had hoped for her 10 year old never materialized. Helen has found a new independence and strength she didn't realize she had. But now a week later a fun call from the naval hosp...more
Buat penggemar romantic suspense novel, buku karya Marliss Melton ini recommended lha! Sama seperti Suzanne Brockman, novel ini bercerita tentang NAVY SEALS. Perbedaannya, kalo Suzanne bercerita ttg SEALS Team 6, klo Marliss ini ttg SEALS Team 12. Dan, di novel si Marliss ini adegan "uhuk2-nya" cuma sedikit aja & gak segamblang di novel si Suzanne. Hahahahaaaaaa. Focused on romantic story lha ^^
Navy SEALS Gabe Renault, kembali ke rumahnya setelah 3 tahun dinyatakan hilang dan tewas dalam sua...more
Navy SEALS Gabe Renault, kembali ke rumahnya setelah 3 tahun dinyatakan hilang dan tewas dalam sua...more
Since I'm a big Suzanne Brockmann fan, I was figured I would attempt these books due to Amazon's incessant recommendations every time I looked up one of the Brockmann books. I'm not sure what happened with the Melton books but they started off tepid with me and progressively got worse. . . which irritated me to no end since I had purchased the entire series in one sitting and ended up taking all but two back to the UBS.
My problem with this series is that the author outlines a great story, great...more
My problem with this series is that the author outlines a great story, great...more
My second Melton book, who I stumbled across when an excerpt from her book, Too Far Gone was included at the end of one of my historical romances on the Great Romance Reading Project of 2013. Romance novels about Navy SEALs? Who knew such a thing existed? How could I resist?
Well, I went right out and got Too Far Gone and loved it! It was a thriller in the Grisham tradition but with much much better romance. I was hooked. I realized that this was part of a series, though, and in my complete-ist w...more
Well, I went right out and got Too Far Gone and loved it! It was a thriller in the Grisham tradition but with much much better romance. I was hooked. I realized that this was part of a series, though, and in my complete-ist w...more
This was the first book I've read by Marliss Melton and I will admit it was a very good book. It was well-written and well-researched.
The book centered around Gabe Renault, a Navy SEAL who had been imprisoned by Korean terrorists for the past year. He had been declared dead, but managed to escape and find his way back home. Back home, he had a wife (Helen) and a 13-year-old stepdaughter (Mallory). Gabe and Helen had been married for about 3 years when he disappeared and their marriage wasn't a...more
The book centered around Gabe Renault, a Navy SEAL who had been imprisoned by Korean terrorists for the past year. He had been declared dead, but managed to escape and find his way back home. Back home, he had a wife (Helen) and a 13-year-old stepdaughter (Mallory). Gabe and Helen had been married for about 3 years when he disappeared and their marriage wasn't a...more
If you love romantic suspense novels featuring Navy SEALS, this is the one for you, too. In the first series of the Navy Seal 12, we're introduced to Gabe Renault and his wife Helen. This isn't an ordinary love story. Before Gabe's mission went awry, he was focused on his team. Then he was left for dead and traumatized with memory loss. He doesn't remember Helen or his stepdaughter Mallory or anything on their relationship. Helen, a bit weary and wanted an independent life and to divorce Gabe, l...more
Good plot even if it did make me cringe that some of the Navy's finest turned out to be anything but. I empathized with Helen's turmoil, even if some of her reasoning were rather harsh. I didn't really like the fact that it took Gabe almost dying all over again before she came to her senses. I didn't like her friend Leila at all. While I can appreciate a female bond of friendship as a source of strength and understanding, I felt that Leila overstepped her bounds so many times. Since she only had...more
Gabe (Seal) and Helen (daughter of Seal Officer) - stepdaughter and Helen is hesitant to trust again
A Hero's Nightmare Gabe Renault doesn't know why he was in a prison
camp. He has no memory of the past three years or of the Navy Seal mission that went wrong. Only two things kept him going: thoughts of his wife and the certainty that he must escape. A Sudden Homecoming After Gabe is presumed dead, Helen Renault pulls the tattered pieces of her and her daughter's lives back together. Married youn...more
A Hero's Nightmare Gabe Renault doesn't know why he was in a prison
camp. He has no memory of the past three years or of the Navy Seal mission that went wrong. Only two things kept him going: thoughts of his wife and the certainty that he must escape. A Sudden Homecoming After Gabe is presumed dead, Helen Renault pulls the tattered pieces of her and her daughter's lives back together. Married youn...more
While I enjoyed this book, I didn't think it was as good as some other SEAL books that I have read before. There just seems to be something missing, I am just not sure what it is.
I really liked the aspect of Gabe and his missing memory, I liked how when he had the chance to do things over his mind made it ok for him to be the man he knew he needed to be while he was captured. I really liked how Helen was gun shy. Gabe had a lot to overcome before she could even start to let him back in again. I...more
I really liked the aspect of Gabe and his missing memory, I liked how when he had the chance to do things over his mind made it ok for him to be the man he knew he needed to be while he was captured. I really liked how Helen was gun shy. Gabe had a lot to overcome before she could even start to let him back in again. I...more
First time reading Marliss's works and boy what a great start to Seal Team 12 series. Everything flowed effortlessly. You know that when you're reading a book and the words jump off the page and form pictures in your head, to me, that's what great stories are all about. You can envision it happening. Forget Me Not was a gritty, edge of your seat, fast paced suspense with just the right amount of believable drama. What I liked is that you saw the give and take between the two leading characters,...more
I really enjoyed this first book in Marliss Melton's SEAL Team Twelve series, even more than Suzanne Brockmann's SEAL series. I tend to like romantic suspense that is heavier on the romance, and this book had that. It was focused on the development of Helen and Gabe's shattered marriage. I loved the suspense parts as well. There was one big "WTF" moment for me though: when the "cop" asked Mallory to go with him, she didn't even ask for identification! That was way too stupid...I would have belie...more
Seit einem Jahr ist der Navy Seal Gabriel verschwunden, so dass er nun – nach so langer Zeit – tatsächlich als tot erklärt wird. Für seine Frau Helen ist es mehr eine Befreiung, denn eine zusätzliche Last, denn ihre Ehe zu Gabe war von Anfang an zum Scheitern verurteilt, es war eine Liebe auf Zeit, die durch seine Abwesenheit, Kälte und Distanz nur immer weiter bröckelte. Doch schließlich passiert das unmöglich geglaubte: Gabriel ist zurück, er lebt, er ist nicht mehr der Mann von früher … oder...more
Not too bad, but not very satisfying either. I found the writing to be inconsistent, splattered here and there with hackneyed bits. Except in the very end, the action was not fast-paced enough to say the book was unputdownable. The suspense factor was tolerable. Gabe has no recollection of what happened during his last mission, so he's in a vulnerable position and can only trust his team and his family. Though we learn the identity of one of the villains very early on, it soon becomes clear that...more
Loved it a lot! Solid 4star from me.
There was a lot to recommend this series which has been on my TBR stack for quite some time and I berate myself for not reading it sooner.
This romantic suspense series begins with SEAL Lieutenant Gabe Renault being betrayed by a traitor and captured by the enemy while on a mission to recover stolen weapons. As Gabe is on the slow road to regain his memory and re-establish himself as the man he once was, he finds that he must also learn to be the man he never...more
There was a lot to recommend this series which has been on my TBR stack for quite some time and I berate myself for not reading it sooner.
This romantic suspense series begins with SEAL Lieutenant Gabe Renault being betrayed by a traitor and captured by the enemy while on a mission to recover stolen weapons. As Gabe is on the slow road to regain his memory and re-establish himself as the man he once was, he finds that he must also learn to be the man he never...more
After so many rave reviews about this book, I have to say… I don’t get it. It’s not a bad book, by any means; it’s just not the greatest, either. I don’t know if I was in a mood or what but I had been reading this book for what seemed like forever, when actually it was a little over a week, simply because it seemed to drag on and on. I could not get into it, therefore I found myself setting it down, a lot. By page 200 and something I still felt like nothing really happened and we were covering t...more
If you want to decide if Ms. Melton's books are for you, this is the one to start with. From my (limited) research, this is the book that got the reviews, and cemented her reputation for this sort of thing.
Before we begin: A caveat. Ms. Melton's male characters are SEALS. This is a big deal. While you wait for your books in the post, read up on what the US Navy SEALS do, and how they do it. Read up about what a platoon is, and who does what. The books are peppered with terms like BUD/S, XO, PO1,...more
Before we begin: A caveat. Ms. Melton's male characters are SEALS. This is a big deal. While you wait for your books in the post, read up on what the US Navy SEALS do, and how they do it. Read up about what a platoon is, and who does what. The books are peppered with terms like BUD/S, XO, PO1,...more
An epic love story with a SEAL twist. I had a hard time putting this book down. Gabe is wounded, literally from his time in captivity, it is up to Helen to put him back together again. I loved how Gabe was able to get a second chance and seemed to learn from his past life. The cast of characters were great to get to know and the set up for the series was wonderful, the book gave us just enough information about the team members to intrigue.
I was very curious about Hannah, we got just a glimpse...more
I was very curious about Hannah, we got just a glimpse...more
There's lots of action and intrigue to keep the story moving as well as some emotional twists and turns that have you thinking "uh oh". I liked the book and would relate the style as similar to Suzanne Brockmann in that there's good background info so you understand the characters and sympathize with them, even if you don't necessarily agree with them. This is the first of the series but am looking forward to rest, I hope they are as good. I'll keep you posted...
More 3.5 than 4 but I think it's paying the fist-book-in-a-series-illness.
Not bad. Reading about it on GR I thought worse. He went back from 1 year of prison and torture with no memory of his 3 previous years, including his marriage. Wife is not so happy (the daughter, on the contrary is ecstatic!) because she remembers a cold man, always immersed in his work, with no time for his new family.
He remembers he chose to estrange himself from his family because he thought the feelings would make him...more
Not bad. Reading about it on GR I thought worse. He went back from 1 year of prison and torture with no memory of his 3 previous years, including his marriage. Wife is not so happy (the daughter, on the contrary is ecstatic!) because she remembers a cold man, always immersed in his work, with no time for his new family.
He remembers he chose to estrange himself from his family because he thought the feelings would make him...more
A one and a half star read at best. Clunky, with little unexpected action. I am glad that I only bought this first book, unlike the Troubleshooters series where I've had a two and a half week binge to read books one through sixteen this will be it for me and SEAL team 12. (although I would like to know what happens to Hannah, so perhaps I'll change my Mind at some point?)
I just finished this book yesterday and I am eager to read the rest of the series (though I'm now on a self-imposed spending diet after I realized I was spending $50 a week in books for the Kindle...oops). The characters are well developed, the story flows very well. I love the emotion and the characters themselves. Great author!
Definitely a good start to the series. Some of it was a bit unbelievable (Helen's indifference and almost resenting Gabe coming home after being captured & tortured for a year?), her "saving the day" at the end on a Naval ship? But the premise of the story was good, the romance was good, and Gabe was a believable hero.
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Marliss Melton is the author of military romance from warner forever. She writes stories about navy SEALS and the women who change their lives forever.
Series:
* SEAL Team 12
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Marliss Melton is the author of military romance from warner forever. She writes stories about navy SEALS and the women who change their lives forever.
Series:
* SEAL Team 12
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