Barefoot Bay: SEALed with a Twist


Grant “Twisted” Sisti is a Navy Seal and a psychologist, struggling with his own post-traumatic stress disorder after the violent death of one of his teammates.  Struggling to come to terms with the loss of his teammate, Grant finds himself unprepared for the attraction he feels for the mysterious hotel maid he finds skinny-dipping in his pool one fateful night.  Skylar Thornquist has met Grant before in another life, but that was before she changed her identity and took a maid’s job in Barefoot Bay.  Hiding from her family, she must fight her attraction to the Navy Seal whose attentions threaten to expose her identity.

“Sealed with a Twist” combines romance with adventure to create an interesting story full of twists and turns.   At times, too many twists and turns.  The heat and attraction between Skylar and Grant is believable and well written.  However, the character of Skylar embodies the cliché of the “rich girl who breaks from her controlling powerful family”, and is therefore predictable.   Unfortunately, the narrative itself is full of awkward phrasing such as “Her smile turned wane” and instances where the author uses words incorrectly such as “rouge” instead of “rogue”.  These mistakes interfere with the flow of the story, calling for tighter editing.  The story benefits from its well-constructed leading man, and interesting secondary characters.  A good effort.

Gwenellen  Tarbet