A Kissing Dare (Dare to Love Universe #26)

Donovan “The Tank” Clay once stood at the top of his game, a great NFL defensive linemen for the Miami Thunder. An injury sidelined him and now he has to fight for what was his. On multiple levels life is starting come at him hard and fast and he feels seconds away from landing flat on his back-end. With all the distractions before him, he’s blindsided by an unexpected move of a curvaceous beauty. When it comes to relationships he’s always kept low, only engaging when necessary, but this woman has a hold on him he can’t break away from.

Jo'el Gifford is a numbers girl, intelligent and a go-getter, but only in her career. Everything else for her has been placed in a miscellaneous column that she will get around to calculating the time investment profitable potential—eventually. One night she allows her older sister to drag her out to a bachelorette bar crawl and everything changes. On a dare she approaches a sexy, new steel, gray-eyed stranger and one plus one soon starts to equal the two of them in ways she’d never conceived possible. However, she doesn’t have time to think about a man when her job and a company president start making demands she may not be able to accomplish. Can love be the missing factor to her problem?

He’s used to being the one doing the tackling, but when love is before him will he grab hold or let it slip by him?