"Intriguing Romantic Suspense"

Chock full of sizzling romance, military heroes, and captivating suspense, Ms. Brockmann's latest is as good as they come. White house staffer Joan DaCosta is arranging for the President to visit a California naval base to honor the bravery of the SEALs of Team Sixteen, when they were on a clandestine mission in Afghanistan. Upon meeting SEAL Mike Muldoon, Joan is smitten with his good looks, even as she tries to dismiss her attraction to him because of their six-year age difference.

But Mike is as tenacious in his pursuit of Joan as he is in his military training, and she finds it difficult to resist his charm, especially when he aids Joan in her visit to her reclusive mentally ill brother. Joan tries to avoid interacting with Mike when he agrees to play escort to the President's lovely but over imbibing daughter Brooke. Joan and Mike are thrown together again, as she tries to implement damage control with regards to Brooke's drunken behavior. Could Mike and Joan's one night together ever result in a more lasting bicoastal relationship?

Not only is the romance scintillating, but subplots of terrorism and a relationship between an Arab American and a Navy SEAL's neglected wife add depth to this novel. Add in the flashbacks to the World War II love between Joan's grandparents, and you have a read that is as fast-paced as it is intriguing.

Reviewed by Sheri Melnick
Posted December 16, 2002

The fifth installment in Suzanne's series about Navy SEAL Team Sixteen'™s counterterrorists. INTO THE NIGHT (released November 26th), features Lt. jg Mike Muldoon as he acts as SEAL liaison to White House staffer Joan DaCosta, who is helping set up a presidential visit at the navy base in Coronado.