FORGET ME NOT

Author: Marliss Melton ISBN: 0446614823 12/2004 ROMANTIC SUSPENSE Publisher: WARNER FOREVER

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 young and for all the wrong reasons, she's standing on her own two feet at last—and proud of it. Then comes the biggest shock of all—Gabe returns home. Gone is the distant, secretive husband he once was. This new Gabe is a man she could easily, finally, lose her heart to. But his memory is slowlv returning, exposing a trail of government treachery.. . and jeopardizing his and Helen's second chance at love. FORGET ME NOT... What you don't remember can kill you.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

If you like stories involving the heroic and often unstable life of Navy SEALS, Marliss Melton's December release, FORGET ME NOT, should be on your Holiday List.

FORGET ME NOT is action packed, suspensful, and a bit heartbreaking to read. The hero, Gabe Renault, is captured on a misson, tortured and presumed dead, and when he is finally rescued has no memory of his previous life. He finds a wife and step-daughter who have less-than-perfect memories of him, and are all but ecstatic about finding him alive. Gabe finds that he wants desperately to be a family man, yet his past just won't leave him alone.

As far as romantic suspense novels rate, this one wasn't quite as mysterious because the reader knows who the bad guy is the whole time. What you don't know is just who else is involved and why. I also think the relationship between Gabe and his wife, Helen, should be more tension filled, but I realize Helen did remember Gabe and the relationship was not exactly a new one.

If nothing else, a reader will have a greater appreciation for the SEALS after reading this one.

Shannon Johnson