Call To Redemption
The Poseidon team are hard-bodied, fiercely competitive Navy SEALs. But when a sensitive mission goes disastrously wrong, three of the team’s finest will have to trust their hearts and instincts to uncover the truth…No strings. No questions. Just pleasure. For a few blissful days, Lieutenant Commander Nic Savino is enjoying a wild fling with the sexiest stranger he’s ever laid eyes—or any other body part—on. It’s almost enough to make the stalwart SEAL let his guard down for once. Until he learns that Assistant US Attorney Darby Raye—his Darby—is heading an investigation designed to destroy him…and Poseidon.The gorgeous eyes that Darby spent her nights gazing into are now glaring at her across a courtroom. This case could build her career, but if Nic’s not a traitor, then he’s being framed by forces powerful enough to eliminate every obstacle in their way. And the tentative trust she and Nic are rebuilding—and their very lives—could all become collateral damage…
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The Poseidon team are hard-bodied, fiercely competitive Navy SEALs. But when a sensitive mission goes disastrously wrong, three of the teamâs finest will have to trust their hearts and instincts to uncover the truth...
No strings. No questions. Just pleasure. For a few blissful days, Lieutenant Commander Nic Savino is enjoying a wild fling with the sexiest stranger heâs ever laid eyesâor any other body partâon. Itâs almost enough to make the stalwart SEAL let down his guard for once. Until he learns that assistant US attorney Darby Rayeâhis Darbyâis heading an investigation designed to destroy him...and Poseidon.
The gorgeous eyes that Darby spent her nights gazing into are now glaring at her across a courtroom. This case could build her career, but if Nicâs not a traitor, then heâs being framed by forces powerful enough to eliminate every obstacle in their way. And the tentative trust she and Nic are rebuildingâas well as their very livesâcould become collateral damage...
Praise for New York Times bestselling author Tawny Weber
âA sexy, hot SEAL undercover in more ways than one.... Tawny Weber nails this steamy suspense.â
âNew York Times bestselling author Cristin Harber
âThis hot and sexy adventure takes readers on a thrilling ride of romance, secrets and SEALs.â
âRT Book Reviews
âWow...a fantastic series by Ms. Weber. This amazing story line manages to make you cry, make you smile and make your heart turn inside out.... Get it, read it, love it.â
âHarlequin Junkie
âTawny Weber...has created the perfect hero for our time and a sizzling page-turner! What an awesome start to her Team Poseidon series.â
âNew York Times bestselling author
Vicki Lewis Thompson
âI love a good SEAL romance and Tawny Weber knocked this one out of the park. Donât miss it!â
âUSA TODAY bestselling author Karen Fenech
âReminiscent of Suzanne Brockmannâs Troubleshooters series, Weberâs latest will appeal to her fans as well as other military-romance readers...a good read with an engaging heroine and child.â
âBooklist
âCall to Honor is a tightly plotted story with a few startling turns of events, the characters are all credible and...the pace never falters.â
âFresh Fiction
To Birgit, with thanks.
Contents
âLIEUTENANT COMMANDER DOMINIC SAVINO, you stand accused of conduct unbecoming of an officer, disobeying orders and conspiracy to commit treason.â
The voice boomed like a cannon, its roar a vivid contrast to the courtroomâs silence. As he stood at attention on the stand, the sound ricocheted down Nicâs spine like a piece of shrapnel, ripping and tearing.
âCommander, do you understand these charges?â
Understand? Nic had a solid understanding of the fact that heâd been framed, that he was the fall guy for some treasonous son of a bitch. Someone in power with a network of Navy personnel was focused on lining their bank account at the expense of their country.
Yeah.
He understood that.
That, and everything that came with the charges leveled against him. Court-martial. Prison time. The end of his career. The loss of his freedom. The destruction of his team. Fury rose, rolling like waves that crested higher with each heartbeat.
But none of that was evident on his face. Neither awareness nor fury was allowed to show.
âAffirmative.â
âHow do you plead?â
Nicâs gaze didnât shift left, didnât move right. His dead-eye stare was aimed straight ahead, focused on the rippling glory of the American flag hanging over the courtroomâs double doors.
He replayed the accusation. He thought back over the previous yearâs events.
An operation gone horribly wrong thatâd resulted in life-threatening injuries to one team member and the supposed death of another.
The realization that a SEAL, a man sworn to serve his country, would steal classified information to sell to the highest bidder, put his teammates lives in peril and fake his own deathâall for money. That shocking acceptance that the same man would target a young child and a defenseless woman, and kill a fellow SEAL.
And now the emotional train wreck of watching his team targeted by an asshole with an agenda who was determined to ignore the fact that Poseidon was being framed by a traitorous sociopath with psychotic tendencies.
Itâd all been coming down to this.
The moment of truth.
After fourteen years of service protecting the safety and freedom of his country, it wasnât Nicâs life on the line this time. This time, it was his team. His career. His reputation. His own freedom.
Ignoring the tight knot in his gut, he shifted his gaze infinitesimally to the right. He gave Lieutenant Thomas a look cold enough to freeze the manâs innards and, in a clear voice, stated, âNot guilty.â
