Forget Me Not

by Marliss Melton

Book Overview

The first book in Marliss Melton's SEAL Team Twelve military romantic suspense series offers a riveting look at the hardships faced by both prisoners of war and the families they leave behind--and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446614823
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Forever
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.1"

Customer Reviews

The Story of a Man and a Hero,

After one year of being announced "missing in action" Gabe Renault, a navy Seal, returns alive from the jaws of hell, after having been double crossed on enemy territory, in which one of his own team betrayed him. Gabe has endured a terrible year of torture. He has lost his memory, and does not remember the mission, or his wife and step daughter of 3 years. Upon his return Gabe begins to discover the kind of husband and father he was before his disappearance. He had always ignored Helen his wife, refusing to give her his love, or open up to her. He was always distant. He had even refused to legally adopt Helen's daughter Mallory, and been absent from Mallory's life for most of the time. Helen Troy, is ready to rebuild her life. After one year of being MIA, her husband Gabe Renault was announced dead, just the week before. So it was with no small amount of shock that Helen learned that Gabe had just returned from the dead. She is wary of him, and she is bitter because of his mistreatment of her. While she had given him her love, he had ignored her and abandoned her, hence breaking her heart and shattering all the beautiful feelings she had harbored for him. Now she just wants to help him get better, and regain his memories, then they would get a divorce. He'll return to his life and work as a Seal, and she'll return to bask in her new gained independence. Helen is honest with Gabe, informing him that once he is better they will get a divorce. And so the story starts, as Gabe struggles to come to terms with who he had been, and why. While this new "real" Gabe is not distant from his wife or daughter. He shows love, care and compassion towards them. Helen retains her wariness of him, as Gabe sets out to regain his family and prove to Helen that he really loves her. He just wants a second chance to prove to her how wrong he was. He had always assumed that allowing himself to feel and care would weaken him, but it was only his love for Helen that had sustained him through the terrible torture and imprisonment in the past year. Gabe loves his wife and his step daughter, they are the most important in his life, and nothing comes before them. And we the readers get to see how Gabe and Helen get together, as they heal each other and have a chance at a new start. While Helen may seem a bit cold and distant through a good portion of the book, it was understandable due to her past experience with Gabe. And her fear that once Gabe regains his memories he would return to that distant man who had so callously broken her heart. Gabe also has no memory of his last mission, leaving him vulnerable to the attacks of those who do not want him to remember. For someone is still out there waiting for the right moment to silence Gabe forever, before he can remember the truth and reveal it. This is the story of a hero and a man, who upon return from the jaws of hell, after one year, starts to rebuild his life on a journey of self discovery and love, while trying to s

Oh..simply beautiful!

I wish I had read this book before Time To Run, because although that was a good book, it was nothing compared to Forget Me Not. This is a beautiful love story of a SEAL coming back home after a year of captivity and who has no memory of the past 3 years from the time he met his wife. Gabe is a wonderful hero and made me cheer for him when he sets out to win his wife again who I felt wasn't cold, but was just treading carefully after rejections in the past. This book has romance, suspense, and even some action and I couldn't have asked for more. Please read this book and experience the talent of Marliss Melton!

Fabulous book

I had first ordered another of Marliss Melton's books. When it came it went directly onto the bottom of my reading stack. I've never liked "war" stories and was under the impression that was what the book was about. Finally I got to the end of the stack and started reading. I couldn't put the book down. I then ordered all of Melton's other books. Melton is my new favorite author. This book is quick moving from the first page, spellbinding, with just enough romance. I want more Marliss Melton!

An Amazing Story Of A Hero!!!

I love military romances. I think it's because they truly capture the nuances of what truly a hero is to many. Ms. Melton has done a fine...no brilliant job creating a hero that many would not even want to bother with but can't help loving in the end. Gabe Renault is a SEAL and he is married to his job. Oh, and married to a real life flesh and blood woman named Helen. Problem though is Gabe gives a 100% to work but less than that at home. Than he is sent on a mission from which he doesn't return. Helen is told at first that he is MIA and than a year later that he is dead. No sooner does she receive that word than her husband comes back from the dead. He's alive but he can't remember the last three years. Trouble with that...those were the years that he was married to Helen. Now Helen wants nothing more to do with her wounded husband. He has hurt her bad and her heart won't stand the pain anymore. But she just can't turn her back on this "new" Gabe. He's attentive, loving, and supportive. Will he change once he get his memory back? Gabe has lived through a nightmare and it's not over yet. He can't remember his last mission, the last three years of his life. Now his memories are returning and they are dis-jointed and fragmented. But one thing remains. He can't remember what happened but someone thinks he can. This results in him fearing not only for his life but his families as well. Is he paranoid or are his fears real? Just how far up the chain of command is involved in what took place one year earlier? This was a very fast-paced read that will take the reader on a roller coaster of emotions. You will alternate between upset and joy with Helen and truly feel the frustration of Gabe. The repair of their romance is...romantic and one of the better examples of why we read romance. This is one read I have no trouble recommending. I look forward to the next book in this series.

A BOOK I CAN'T FORGET!

I never knew reading about the Navy could be so exhilirating. This book had it all: suspense, romance, action, drama, and very interesting secondary characters. Though I would have preferred more from Sebastian and Leila. They had as much chemistry as the main characters, Gabe and Helen Renault. In this book, Marliss Melton-- first book I've read by this author and certainly not the last--, had me engrossed for 3 days. I couldn't put this book down. With the hero and heroine she induced believable, heartfelt emotions, intuned with the circumstances these two faced after a year apart and two years of a strained marriage. Gabe, of the Navy Seals, disappeared for a year after a mission gone wrong. Held captive by North Korean natives, the only thing that kept him alive and fighting and enduring horrendous bouts of torture was the memory that could never leave him: that of his beautiful wife. While alone in a miserable dungeon away from civility, he had plenty of time to reflect on a rough childhood upbringing, which was responsible for his always putting his job first and ignoring and keeping feelings at bay when it came to his wife and stepdaughter. Escaping from his torturers, Gabe returns home only to not remember the past three years of his life, including that of his wife, Helen, and stepdaughter, Mallory. Being not happy that her husband was assumed dead, but certainly enjoying her freedom to be more independent and not rely on a man who never paid her attention anyways, Helen must relinquish her newfound freedom and be there for Gabe. What transpires is a newfound love, though rocky at first. Gabe is not the man he used to be and Helen finds it hard to resist this mysterious man who's supposed to be her distant, work-obessed husband. Now disband from the Navy on a disability release, Gabe is much more attentive and loving than ever. But will this part of Gabe last?? Or be lost to her once again when his memories return? On top of that, should Helen trust her heart to him once again? Only to lose him with the threat of his life hanging in the balance? Someone wants him to forget the mission that had him captive for a year, and Helen wishes he would, too, if only to keep this part of the man she can not let go, in spite of knowing she should. With suspense, beautiful dialogue between Helen, Gabe, and Mallory, this story is a 5-star read and worth a second read, too. You'll also be enthralled by the sexy, latino Master Chief Sebastian Leon and Helen's best friend Leila, hoping for a story of their own. I felt cheated that I didn't get to see how they wound up. But that's my only omplaint about this book. Insecurities from Gabe-- was he too scarred physically and emotionally for Helen to love; was he man enough to be a good father to a teenage girl with her own insecurities; did he betray his country and not remember the mission for fear of losing his job; and was a second chance at living enough to warrant a second chance