Defending Love

<p><strong>He's sworn to protect her. She's determined to make him stay.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I'm Elijah Rhodes top-tier Guardian Security agent. We protect the world's power players: heads of state royalty A-listers. The elite. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I didn't grow up with much and nothing came easy. My time in Special Ops hardened me gave me purpose and left me with a black heart. I took the missions no one else would. Still do.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>My rules are simple:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> No long-term assignments.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> No repeats.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> No attachments.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Keep it professional. Keep it distant.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>It's how I've survived. Until </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>her</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Dr. Danielle Sinclair is brilliant beautiful and off-limits. I protected her then did what I always do. I walked away.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Now a year later tragedy strikes. Dani's life is in danger and every instinct in me demands I break my own rules to keep her safe.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Some lines shouldn't be crossed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Some rules were made to be broken.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I'll protect Dani with my life but I can't give her a heart I don't have.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Have you been Aleatha'd?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>DEFENDING LOVE</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a steamy high-stakes bodyguard stand-alone romantic suspense with second chances and all the feels</span></p>