**A top 50 Amazon best seller!** I\'m not the hero in this story.
Desire or Defense is a dual POV, interconnected standalone.
Trigger warnings include: parental substance abuse & dealing with grief/loss of parents.). (This is a fade-to-black romance with mild language.
And if I\'m not careful, I\'ll burst into flames, forever melting the ice I\'ve carefully kept around my heart.
Something about this spitfire of a woman, and the boy she\'s so protective of, has my defenses melting.
But what I didn\'t expect was for a gorgeous, spunky blonde to stomp onto the ice on day one and lecture me about being rude to her little brother.
Which my manager swears will rebuild my image.
As if that\'s not bad enough, I\'m forced into a short term youth-hockey coaching gig.
The temper that leads to a fifteen game suspension from the NHL.
Eagles defenseman that just can\'t keep his temper in check.
The notoriously angry, grouchy, D.
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I\'m the villain... **A top 50 Amazon best seller!** I\'m not the hero in this story
