Daring the Defender (Wittmore U Hockey #3)
Angel Lawson
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
3.80
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 23 ratings · 292 pages · Published: 07 Feb 2025

Unfortunately, he’s not the one who answered the door on that wintery Valentine’s night. That was his best friend and roommate, Reid Wilder. Copper-colored hair, dark eyes, and the number eight tattooed on his bicep.
I should have turned around when he mistook me for a puck bunny and invited me in.
I definitely should have said no to the drink he offered while I waited.
But the biggest mistake I made was climbing into his lap and kissing him.
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The rest of the campus may think it’s pathetic that I spent Valentine's Day alone and not with one of the puck bunnies that love the Wittmore hockey players. But I know better. Valentine's Day is for committed relationships—like the one I just got out of with my ex.
Nah, I’ll just stay home, eat my heart-shaped pizza, and grab some half-off candy tomorrow. At least that was my plan until a girl showed up on my doorstep looking for my roommate Axel.
Figuring this was a former hook-up, I tried to shoo her off, but she was persistent.
And cute.
Axel’s got a girlfriend now. I figure why not mend my broken heart with the girl Cupid dropped off at my doorstep? So I kiss her.
Not just a kiss, I realize. Her first kiss.
And when her overprotective brother finds out?
It’ll probably be my last.
Shelby and Reid's story is about a brother's best friend, secret and forbidden, college hockey, spicy romance. Daring the Defender is a standalone novel in the Wittmore U: Hockey series.
Wittmore U: Hockey
Faking It with The Forward
Guarded by the Goalie
Daring the Defender
Tagged as:
- new adult 4
- sports 4
- contemporary 4
- m-f romance 3
- forbidden love 2
- virgin heroine 2
- sweet/gentle heroine 2
- shy heroine 2
- sunny/happy hero 2
- sweet/gentle hero 2
- athlete hero 2
- secret relationship 1
- competent heroine 1
- cheerful/happy heroine 1
- independent heroine 1
- take-charge heroine 1
- himbo 1
- possessive hero 1
- hockey 1
- sibling's best friend 1
- dual pov 1
- college 1
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- content warnings
- misogyny 1
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The 'Wittmore U Hockey' series
65 ratings 4.04 ·
new adult · contemporary · sports · secret-relationship · dual-pov · athletes · sunny hero · m-f · possessive hero · independent heroine · length-medium · hockey · college · usa · past-sexual-abuse · alpha male · first-person-pov · tortured heroine · shy heroine · explicit-open-door
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