Final Siege by Scarlett Cole is a good fit for readers looking for a suspenseful romance with a focus on redemption, protection, and the enduring power of past love.

I’m a sucker for a second chance romance, and I loved Mac and Delaney’s story. It’s clear from the beginning that there is still a lot of emotion between them, but where Mac knows in his heart that Delaney is the only girl for him, she is still full of anger and grief and she has no intention of letting him get close to her. But the gorgeously protective alpha is determined to be there for her, setting the stage for a battle of wills that makes their situation all kinds of intense, because the chemistry between these two is sizzling!

3.5 stars. I read Cabe’s book first by mistake but it didn’t take away from reading Mac’s story. Delaney and MAC are reconnected after 15 years apart due to a misunderstanding. Their chemistry was strong the whole time and the plot started strong. The ending felt a bit rushed in terms of the big mystery

We met Mac in Under Fire. He's one of the three best friends but he was more friends with Brock whom we hear of in Under Fire but don't get the back story about what happened to him until this book.

This back story of Brock is the catalyst of why Delaney has pushed away Mac and wouldn't hear the truth for fourteen years. That is a long time to have a grudge. I liked Delaney's character but at times I found her a bit self serving and too stubborn especially when it came to facing the truth.

"I don't like them, Delaney. And I don't like that you drew them based on something you think you know but won't talk to me about."

Mac was sweet and patient. Thankfully when Delaney finds the truth she didn't have to process for long as that would have driven me crazy.

This suspense ties into Under Fire which brings Louisa more into the story which was great and also starts to answer some things that were left open in Under Fire.

Again there were quite a few time line details that were off and when I see those unfortunately it throws me off. I think a lot of people wouldn't even notice them but for some reason they pop out for me.

A fantasic suspenseful romance. Delaney is an investigative journalist who got too close to the story and now has people after her.
Mac is a retired Navy Seal. He's been in love with Delaney forever, but the death of his best friend and Delaney's older brother, Brock, has kept him from her. Now she's in trouble and needs his protection. Mac isn't letting her go again.
The writing is fantastic in this standalone book. It sucks you in to the emotions of the characters. Told in both Mac and Delaney's POV.

Mac and Delaney were madly in love until Delaney's brother also Mac's best friend died 14 years ago. She blamed him for his brother's death. Ever since his funeral, Delaney never contacted Mac and Mac decided to give up once she didn't return her calls.
While Mac was celebrating his friend's birthday, he gets a phone call from Munich hospital and Delaney is asking for Mac. He never thought he would face her again but not this way. When he saw her in the hospital, it brought all of the emotion back to him. He wanted to be there for her again just like old days. Yet he wasn't sure how Delaney would react.
Delaney never thought she was asking for Mac while she was injured. She wasn't ready to face Mac but she needed his help to get back to state and continuing to research.
They are back in the states but Delaney did not have a place to go and Mac was offering his place. She wanted to stay couple days until her living situation was settled. She wanted to get back out there where the news was happening but she couldn't until she was fully healed.
While Delaney was staying with Mac, it was difficult to keep their feelings inside since he is just couple feet away. And they are crazy for each other. Mac is trying his best to wait for Delaney but it is becoming more and more difficult. Not only Mac wants to protect her, he wants to be her everything again. What will they choose this time? Her brother's death hanging over their heads and trouble follows Delaney around.
Everything Delaney has been researching is closely related to Louisa's case (1st book). This time threats come close to their office.
Suspense is until the end and it is not over yet.
This one was good as first one and it had different take on 2nd chances with suspense. Can't wait to read the next one.
Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's paperback for ARC in exchange for honest review.

I enjoy the fast paced surrounding story within this series, in addition to the romance. Cole seems to have figured out the perfect balance mixing the two and making me enjoy her books. Looking forward to the next one in this series!

This is book number two, and though I did not read the first one you can get caught up pretty fast. Three former Seals have started a security company, they also grew up together as well. In the first book Six falls for the scientist Louisa that was saved by them. Now here in the second book Mac is faced with the one person is has also loved Delaney. She is now a reporter and after getting a call that she has been taken captive and rescued she has called for him. She of course does not remember calling for him and is torn in two different directions when she sees him. She is still wanting to fight for her story which put her in harm’s way and she knows she should not still blame Mac for her brother’s death 14 years ago but she cannot put that part aside. She is still attracted to him, but still wants to blame someone and he is the easiest one. Mac still wanting to protect her helps her with finding the people who are doing the illegal arms deals, especially when they come after her. Now he must come clean with about the day when her brother died and really tell her what happened and how. If she walks from him afterwards so be it. A wonderful story with action and some romance, enough of each to keep the story moving along. A good book.

Mac and Delaney's story has suspense, tragedy at a young age, angst and hope. I liked Mac a lot. I liked his tightness with his partners, I loved that he was so protective and family driven and loyalty is always a must for me in my hero. Delaney was a little harder to love. the book was a little slow in places but overall a solid. read.

I liked this title more than the first in this series, but it still doesn't feel quite as good as Scarlett Cole's other series. Something is still lacking in the relationship building between the characters than shines so much in her other books. The premise of men who served together, now working together is one of my favorites, and I love Cole's other books, but somehow this series does not rise above others in the genre.

Is there a 6 star option? LOVE this type of story. 100% adrenaline and adventure mixed with HOT! Loved it!

I am truly envious of the ability Scarlett Cole has to ability to craft these stories that enthrall and grab my attention! The men are alpha and cocky enough that they aggravate you but sweet enough that they make you swoon. And every story is different!! I don't feel like I've read the same story just featuring a different couple.

I think Mac might be my favorite story but I just feel like Ghost is going to be the story to really break me. All of these Eagle Securities guys are awesome in their own way but even as a group. They all aren't the same, which as it says in the story, is what makes them all work better as a team.

Another series to add to the watchlist!!

Final Siege is a second chance romance that is exciting and action packed. When Mac gets the call that Delaney is in trouble and asking for him, he asks no questions and jumps. But there is so much baggage between them that they have to navigate a virtual minefield.

“Mac opened his arms wide. “You’re safe, Delaney. Every part of you is safe with me, I promise.”

This story is emotional and suspenseful and author Scarlett Cole keeps you invested in the story and characters. I love that the heroine is flawed but strong, and definitely no doormat.

“...promise me you’ll always come home to me. “
He looked down at her. “If it comes down to love or duty, I promise, you win every time.”

Final Siege is the second book in the Love Over Duty Series. It reads well as a standalone but gives us updates on the characters from the previous story in the series and left me wanting Cabe’s story.
-4 Stars-

Final Siege is the second novel in Scarlett Cole's Love Over Duty series, but it's the first one I've read, and while I've already purchased the first novel in the series, I'll admit to having mixed feelings about this one, which is why I'm giving it a 3.5-star rating.

The novel revolves around it's two main characters, Mac MacCarrick, a former Navy SEAL and one heck of a hero, and Delaney Shapiro, the girl that teenage Mac once loved and lost, when she blamed him for the untimely accidental death of her 20-year-old brother, Brock, 15 years earlier. There's been zero contact between them since she slapped his face at her brother's funeral and told Mac she hated him.

When Mac gets a phone call from a military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, informing him that Delaney has been injured and is asking for him, he can't get to Germany fast enough. When he arrives, Delaney is unconscious, and it's obvious that she has been severely beaten and held captive by the looks of the rope burns on her wrists, and the bruises on her body, and Mac wants to know how she got that way. In the intervening years after her brother's death, Delaney has become a top-notch investigative journalist, and she was captured in a small village in Afghanistan while following leads on the connection between drug trafficking and illegal arms sales in the third world. Luckily, she was rescued not long after being captured and before she was raped.

Mac has never really gotten over losing Delaney, the love of his life, and since her injuries are going to require a rather long recovery period, when she's released from the hospital, he brings her back to the U.S. and appoints himself as her caretaker, much to her displeasure, especially when she realizes that he's taking her to his apartment to recuperate.

Mac is a good man, caring, strong, sweet, charming, kind and driven. After retiring from the SEALs, he and his friends and former Navy SEALs, formed Eagle Securities, a private security company, willing to let its operatives undertake highly risky missions. He's most definitely an alpha male, but still has a soft spot in his heart for Delaney, who still wants nothing to do with him. Taking care of Delaney's recovery has become his mission goal, and he's going to care of her whether she likes it or not, and she doesn't like it one bit, but Mac is still trying to win her back, while Delaney, one of the most incredibly independent and highly focused female characters I've encountered in quite some time, wants to get back to Afghanistan and finish the story she's been chasing.

This is where I began to have a problem with this novel, and the problem I was having, to my surprise, was with just how independent, cold-hearted and unforgiving Delaney was toward Mac, still blaming him for killing her brother after all these years, while still not knowing the full story about what happened, and each time Mac tries to reach out to her and explain himself and his actions on that fateful day, she refuses to hear it. Mac, the teenager, was her first love, and it's clear that Mac will do anything to have a second-chance with her, but Delaney ignores his attempts to get her back, as well as ignoring his advice about her safety when it's also clear that she's being watched, followed and is still in danger, because the matters she's been prying into for her article would help bring down an extremely profitable and illegal enterprise. I couldn't reconcile her cold behavior toward Mac with her single-minded pursuit of the truth for her article, especially when she doesn't seem to want to know the truth of what caused her brother's death, and she doesn't seem to have an ounce of forgiveness in her, something I truly disliked about her character.

There's a lot more to this second chance at love story, especially when attempts to recapture Delaney are ongoing, and Mac and his team of former SEALS, specialists in black ops missions, get involved in more than just keeping her safe, they get involved in her story and her attempts to bring down this evil and illegal enterprise. The suspense aspect of this novel drives the plot forward, and the secondary characters are all interesting and intriguing, but as interesting as it was, I just couldn't get past my dislike of Delaney, and her unfairness to Mac, who's shown her nothing but care, love, respect and attention. Frankly, I just didn't think she was good enough for a man of such character, kindness, strength and devotion.

Yes, there's an HEA ending, yes, it was a relatively good read, and yes, I want to read more about the rest of the men at Eagle Securities, but I do hope that in future installments of this series the author gives us a more likable heroine than she did in this one.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

What a tangled web! She loved him until she blamed him for her brother's death. He loved her but was wracked with guilt over witnessing her brother's death. There's a lot of angst to be found in this book, but the author's skillful weaving of the plot allows us to glimpse the pain but not become dragged down in it. The two main characters have grown and changed over the years of their separation, but it seems like the passion and love might still be under there, buried by an avalanche of time and regret.

Mac's invested in his new life with the security business. However, all it takes is a phone call and he's running back into the past, chasing the girl he once loved. Why is Delaney in Germany in the hospital? More importantly, why is she calling for him?

Danger follows Delaney back home, but first, she and Mac have to figure out whether the perpetrators of increasingly close attacks are after her or him. Luckily their feelings aren't a mystery... Except to each other.

This is a great story with well-developed characters and plot twists that keep you interested and confused at the same time. Slot for is an excellent suspense writer and is recommend any of her other sites as well as this new one. Thanks for the great read, can't wait for the next one.

Where can I find my own Mac?

Mac and Delaney were high school sweethearts until her brother died while with him. Ten years later Mac gets a call to go to Delaney in the hospital. Can he tear pass all the barriers she is erecting to keep them at a distance.

A great fast paced book with bullets flying, hot alpha male, and a mystery to solve.

I can't wait for the next in this series.

This was a fantastic read I was hooked from the very beginning and could not put it down.This is Delaney and Mac's story these two have not seen each other since her brothers funeral when she smacked him but neither one has ever truly gotten over the other but she still blames him and he still feels guilty this was a really good addition to the series I cannot wait for the next one.

Final siege was one of my favourite romance genres second chance romance and this story was well written. Scarlett Cole is an author that knows how to write a great story that keeps you captivated throughout the whole story. This was another great addition to the series and another amazing read by this author.

My first Scarlett Cole.
The suspense is okay and II think that a few years back I may have given it 4 stars. But it’s definitely not possible given I hated the heroine and then I didn’t understand why the book ended with nothing resolved and all the -happy- ending piled in the epilogue like it was not important and did not have its place in the book.
Their relationship is difficult and I think the problem they have to overcome with is not romance material in my standards - well, tastes and feelings sometimes cannot be explained. Not that it’s unrealistic but it is too irreversibly dramatic.
I’ll read Cabe’s story and certainly Six’s too, I don’t know in which order but it’s not a good debut for me with Scarlett’s books.

Well written and an enjoyable story. I really enjoyed reading this book and look forward to reading more by this author.