Basic Training

I enjoyed the story very much especially when read with the two books that go in the series. Major attraction, basic training and then at your command.

In Ashton, Virginia physical therapist, Tess Bartlett asks her long time friend Marine Corps captain Travis McCormick, who is on leave recovering from injuries, for a favor. She wants him to teach her basic sex training and advanced boudoir maneuvers. The courageous marine thought he could handle anything, but her enlisting him shakes him to his core. She even barters with him. She will help with his recovery by providing him physical therapy if he trains her on sex therapy. Travis reconsiders his old buddy who is a beautiful desirable woman and decides he is the man for the job especially when an enemy sets his sights on destroying any relationship between Travis and Tess. What he does not know is that Tess selected him because she loves him and figures seduction with him as her drill instructor is her best strategy to win the campaign for his heart. BASIC TRAINING is a terrific contemporary military romance starring two likable protagonists whom the audience will want to find their way to each other. The story line is superb when Tess maneuvers her beloved into scenarios that he suddenly finds he wants to take that hill. The relatively late suspense is cleverly devised but actually takes away from a delightful tale of a strategic planning female carrying out her operation to win the heart of her beloved marine. Harriet Klausner

Physical therapist Tess Bartlett welcomes Marine hero Travis McCormick home after a devastating accident. She is a good friend, forever the tomboy-next-door in his eyes, and Travis has no idea that she has always loved him. He is determined to rejoin his special-ops unit in two weeks, when he suddenly sees Tess in an entirely new light. But one of his old enemies is determined to ruin his career and his relationship with Tess. BASIC TRAINING (4 1/2), by Julie Miller, has a heartbreakingly real heroine, which leaves you hoping for her happiness. Humor and suspense elements are also well developed.