Building Courage

SEAL Team Heartbreakers #11

by Teresa J. Reasor

Photographer Brynn Barrington spent two years on the road, taking pictures, podcasting about survival, and working through a personal trauma by embracing life. She’s taken on surfing, sky diving, and now wants to learn to scuba dive.
But when she meets Tucker Giles, she’s wary. The handsome SEAL triggers desires she long ago buried deep and never thought to feel again.

Navy SEAL Tucker Giles has been a certified diver for years. After a dangerous encounter with a bull shark during a mission, he decides teaching Brynn to dive is just the ticket to shake off the lingering aftereffects. His instant attraction to Brynn is strong, and when he discovers what she’s endured, he’s determined to convince her to give romance another shot. With him.

Before her first open-water dive, Brynn commemorates the event by taking a photo of her and Tucker. Soon after, her apartment’s broken into and she feels like she’s living a nightmare again.

Can Tucker help her find the courage to face her fears and learn to love?

287 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 23, 2024

About the author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Teresa Reasor was born in Southeastern Kentucky, but grew up a Marine Corps brat. The love of reading instilled in her in Kindergarten at Parris Island, South Carolina made books her friends during the many transfers her father's military career entailed. The transition from reading to writing came easily to her and she penned her first book in second grade. But it wasn’t until 2007 that her first published work was released.

After twenty-one years as an Art Teacher and ten years as a part time College Instructor, she’s now retired and living her dream as a full time Writer.

Her body of work includes both full-length novels and shorter pieces in many different genres, Military Romantic Suspense, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy Romance, Historical Romance, Contemporary Romance, and Children’s Books.

MILITARY ROMANTIC SUSPENSE:
Breaking Free (Book 1 of the SEAL TEAM Heartbreakers)
Breaking Through (Book 2 of the SEAL TEAM Heartbreakers)
Breaking Away (Book 3 of the SEAL TEAM Heartbreakers)
Building Ties (Book 4 of the SEAL TEAM Heartbreakers)

PARANORMAL ROMANCE:
Timeless

FANTASY ROMANCE:
Whisper In My Ear


HISTORICAL ROMANCE:
Highland Moonlight
Captive Hearts

SHORT STORIES:
An Automated Death (A Steampunk Short Story) Paranormal
To Capture A Highlander’s Heart: The Beginning (A Highland Moonlight Spinoff)
Caught In The Act (A Humorous Short Story) Contemporary Romance

NOVELLAS:
To Capture A Highlander’s Heart: The Courtship (A Highland Moonlight Spinoff
Breaking Ties: A Seal Team Heartbreakers Novella


CHILDREN’S BOOK:
Willy C. Sparks: The Dragon Who Lost His Fire

Her next children’s book will be Haiku Clue a book of Haiku poetry for children. The poems will act as clues for the reader to guess what the creature is before they turn the page. It will be out in the fall of 2015.

ANTHOLOGIES HER WORK HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN:
Malice, Mischief, and Men (Breaking Free)
SEALed With A Kiss: Heroes With A Heart (Breaking Free)
Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem (Building Ties)

Reviews

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great to be back in the Seal Team Heartbreakers world. This time we get Navy Seal Tucker Giles story. Giles is also a master diver (something he achieved before becoming a Seal). This knowledge is what introduces him to Brynn Barrington who needs diving lessons for a future trip to Australia to photograph underwater pictures.

I liked Giles character, but Brynn had the more heartbreaking background story. Giles was the perfect person to help her get pasted her traumatic past.

There is an ongoing arc that still isn't concluded at the end of this book. It's also intense and I need more on this..

[Jeanie Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The always amazing Teresa Reasor has done it again! Building Courage, the 11th book in the SEAL Team Heartbreakers is as intense, warm, and witty as the earlier books. From a great white to the kind of sharks that walk on two feet, the action barely slows for the building romance between Tucker Giles, a SEAL and master diver, and Brynn Barrington, an up-and-coming photographer. Brynn is battling PTSD but who refuses to allow a terrifying incident to set the boundaries of who she is. When the publisher of a magazine she works with offers her a major photo spread featuring Australia both on land and around the Great Barrier Reef, Brynn finds it hard to reject the project, but it requires that she learn to dive and to take pictures underwater. A mysterious ship, domestic violence, sabotage and personal danger follow our awesome couple as they develop an enduring relationship.
Teresa Reasor's knowledge of the military community brings Building Courage to life.

[Patricia Mattingly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Building Courage

I love this series and seeing characters from other books in this series. Never had a bad experience in reading books from this author she's fantastic with her story line and characters in her books I give it a ten star rating.

[Glenda Bettin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book