Title: Defending Hayden
Series: A Second Chances Novel
Author: LP Dover
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Publisher: Random House
Cover Design by: Mae I Design
and Photography
Photo Taken by: Regina Wamba
No one’s tougher than
Carolina Cougars linebacker Derek McLaughlin. But when a fatal car accident
claims the life of his girlfriend, Derek finds himself caught in a destructive
spiral of drugs, alcohol, and meaningless sex. But not even a string of
one-night stands can ease the hurt. Football is all he has left. Then fate
leads him back to the scene of the crash, and into the arms of a kind, gorgeous
woman who sees past his façade to the man he once was . . . and can be again.
When a chance
roadside encounter brings Derek into her life, veterinarian Hayden Hunter isn’t
fooled by his bad attitude: All bark and no bite, he’s hiding a wounded heart
beneath that gruff demeanor. And Hayden wants to be the one to kiss it all
better. Soon they both find that a dose of passion is potent medicine. But when
a hidden enemy lashes out at Hayden, Derek steps up to do what he does best:
put his body on the line in the name of love.
“L. P. Dover knows
how to create the men who make us swoon, the book boyfriends we all want.”—New
York Times bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin
Guilt plagued me and
I felt sick. Getting out of bed, I paced the room, running my hands angrily
through my hair. I didn’t want to hurt Hayden. Keeping her away would protect
her from my life. She was bound to leave me anyway. I’d fuck up somehow and it would
ruin her. What the hell was I talking about? I’d already fucked her up.
“Derek?” Her voice
was like honey, silky and sweet. I’d imagined what it would be like to hear
that voice screaming my name as I fucked her over and over. Last night had been
the best night of my life, but it had scared the shit out of me. I couldn’t
shake it. “Derek, are you okay?” she asked. Stopping midstep, I turned to face
her, and her eyes widenened when she got a glimpse of my face. I could only
imagine what she saw. So many emotions battled inside me. She held the blanket
to her chest, and her lips trembled. “Please tell me this wasn’t just a game to
you,” she whispered.
Swallowing hard, I
sat down on the edge of the bed and reached for her. She recoiled from my
touch. “None of this was a game, Hayden. Last night was fucking amazing.”
Her eyes glistened,
but her jaw was firm. “Then why are you looking at me like that? Like you
regret what we did.”
I wanted to touch
her, but last night had been my only chance. She’d never let me close to her
again. “I don’t regret it, but eventually you will. You’re not the only one
who’s lost someone they cared about. I can’t go through it again. It’s best to
stop this before it goes any further.”
“Any further?” she
scoffed. She waved her arm around the room, her anger so thick I could cut it
with a knife. “If you didn’t want it to go any further, then why did you bring
me here? Why would you do that to me?”
“Because I care about
you,” I said, knowing it made no sense to her.
“Then why are you pushing
me away?” she cried.
Standing, I got up
and walked over to the window. “You wouldn’t understand.”
New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author L. P. Dover is a southern belle living in North Carolina with her
husband and two beautiful girls. Before she began her literary journey she
worked in periodontics, enjoying the wonderment of dental surgeries.
She loves to write, but she also loves to
play tennis, go on mountain hikes and white water rafting, and has a passion
for singing. Her two youngest fans expect a concert each and every night before
bedtime, usually Christmas carols.
Dover has written countless novels,
including her Forever Fae series, the Second Chances series, the Gloves Off
series, the Armed & Dangerous series, the Royal Shifters series, the
Society X series, and her standalone novel Love, Lies, and Deception. Her
favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense, but if she got to choose
a setting in which to live, it would be with her faeries in the Land of the
Fae.
L.P. Dover is represented by Marisa
Corvisiero of Corvisiero Literary Agency and Italia Gandolfo of Gandolfo Helin
& Fountain Literary Management for dramatic rights.
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