Hard Bounty

A SEAL Contemporary Romance

By: Jillian Riley

Narrated by: Jack Williams

I remember the way he touched me and how I didn't want him to stop. I would run my fingers down his chest and rock-hard abs.

Jaxon

I didn’t miss the war, but I sure as hell missed my team. I am a Navy SEAL, and all my buddies are SEALs, traveling the world, saving lives, and fighting for our country. That’s what we do! I didn’t want the rod in my leg, and I wasn’t gonna let an injury keep me from the life I loved.

Unfortunately, my CO had a different idea. Since leaving the SEALs, I’ve been a PI for my buddy’s agency. I spent my time chasing down cheating husbands and corporate criminals. I worked hard in the private sector, but I was bored. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d taken a vacation.

So, when I found out my next job was to bring an embezzling former accountant for Genotym Inc back to Houston to face charges, and it was going to take me to the Caribbean...how could I say no?

I wanted the sun, the beach, and the women in bikinis looking for some attention. I wasn’t counting on intense attraction and soulful green eyes. After all, how hard could it be to get one woman on a plane back to Houston...

Amelia

I couldn’t believe I’d fallen for Michael Smith’s BS. He was my boss at Genotym, Inc, and I should’ve known better. I liked the attention. I liked to feel wanted. When I found out he was stealing from the company, I’d had enough. Sure, he tried to deny it, but I had the proof on a USB.

I quit, told him he needed to come clean, cashed out my 401K, and took off to Grenada to lick my wounds and figure out what I’d do next.

When I was almost mugged on the streets of St. George’s, a handsome stranger came to my rescue. He was the sexiest man I had ever seen. He seemed like the type that left broken hearts in his wake.

I wasn’t looking to get involved, but when things go from bad to worse, who else could I turn to for protection? Even if I had everything to lose, including my heart.

©2018 Jillian Riley (P)2020 Jillian Riley

Plot holes, predictable & painful to listen to.

STORY
Accountant Amelia notices that her boss/ex is embezzling, so she quits and takes a break in the Caribbean for two weeks to think about what she should do about it. When injured, ex-navy SEAL turned private investigator, Jackson, is hired to find out who’s been stealing from the company, sparks fly between him and Amelia.

This is one of those books that I would have quit listening to if I have not received it from the author in exchange for my honest feedback. Not only was everything very predictable, but there were huge, gaping plot holes - things that made absolutely no sense. ***SPOILER IN THE NEXT SENTENCE*** For example, why would Amelia‘s employer hire a private investigator to find her in Grenada if he already knew where she was? This was my first first time reading a book by Riley, but if all of her books are similar to this one, it’s also the last

PERFORMANCE
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Jack Williams. From the very beginning, it was difficult for me to continue listening, often wanting to quit because of the terrible narration. Mr. Williams left way too much time between words, making sentences sound choppy, not flowing like human speech. In fact, he sounded robotic at times; some of my text to speech voices sound more human then he did.

I don’t often hear typos or mistakes while listening to an audiobook, but I heard one while listening to this when Riley says, “Jack’s was confident they had lived a very different lives. “Perhaps this wasn’t a typo but the narrator’s mistake as he mispronounced several words including RECONCILE and MISCHIEF. I will definitely avoid listening to audiobooks narrated by Mr. Williams in the future.