Hopeless For You by Hayden Hill
Publication date: September 23rd 2013Genres: New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
“If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it’s that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.” — Michelangelo
Ash Jensen, a squeaky-clean sophomore at the University of Tennessee, has a trail of baggage a mile long — she buried her fiancé only a year and a half ago. She swore she’d never love again but when she finds herself interned to a yummy Canadian conservation officer that promise is tested big-time. Kade Gyllenhahl sports wild tattoos, a rebellious attitude and a fohawk to die for. He’s definitely the wrong man for her and she knows it.
Kade doesn’t have time for a girl like her. She’s a pretentious, unreadable princess who lives her life by her parents’ rules. Kade knows nothing about her past and he’d prefer to keep it that way. Besides, he’ll lose his job if he sleeps with Ash. Now if only he could get his mind off her.
When the two of them end up alone and isolated during a routine field trip in the woods, things get a little complicated…
One man afraid of commitment.
One woman afraid to love again.
Two lives.
Two hearts.
One life-changing journey.
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Ash Jensen, a squeaky-clean sophomore at the University of Tennessee, has a trail of baggage a mile long — she buried her fiancé only a year and a half ago. She swore she’d never love again but when she finds herself interned to a yummy Canadian conservation officer that promise is tested big-time. Kade Gyllenhahl sports wild tattoos, a rebellious attitude and a fohawk to die for. He’s definitely the wrong man for her and she knows it.
Kade doesn’t have time for a girl like her. She’s a pretentious, unreadable princess who lives her life by her parents’ rules. Kade knows nothing about her past and he’d prefer to keep it that way. Besides, he’ll lose his job if he sleeps with Ash. Now if only he could get his mind off her.
When the two of them end up alone and isolated during a routine field trip in the woods, things get a little complicated…
One man afraid of commitment.
One woman afraid to love again.
Two lives.
Two hearts.
One life-changing journey.
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AUTHOR BIO
USA Today bestselling author Hayden Hill is an avid blogger, cyclist, and photographer who resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Her New Adult Contemporary Romance HOPELESS FOR YOU was released earlier this year.
You can follow Hayden on Twitter @HaydenHillBooks and her website HaydenHillBooks.com. Sign-up to be notified of her new releases here: http://bit.ly/haydenlist
Her New Adult Contemporary Romance HOPELESS FOR YOU was released earlier this year.
You can follow Hayden on Twitter @HaydenHillBooks and her website HaydenHillBooks.com. Sign-up to be notified of her new releases here: http://bit.ly/haydenlist
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Hopeless For You Excerpt:
"You like vodka?"
Kade said.
"What?" I glanced
at him uncertainly. "That's kind of an odd question. From way out in left
field."
"You're half
Russian." He was staring at me intensely. "You must like vodka."
"Oh, no." I
returned his gaze with equal intensity. Had he felt that tingle when our hands
touched, too? Our conversation was all innocent on the outside but I could sense
the sexual tension seething on the inside. Neither of us broke eye contact. He
wasn't sitting all that far from me. It wouldn't take much to close the gap and
wrap my lips around his. "I had vodka once when I was in tenth grade.
Almost threw up. Scotch is more my thing."
"Scotch? That's a man's
drink."
I shrugged, but didn't break
eye contact. "Not really."
"Any preferred
brands?" His voice sounded deeper, more sexual. I was starting to lose
myself in those eyes.
"I don't know." My
voice sounded strange, too. A little breathy. "All kinds of brands. I
don't like Jack Daniels, though."
"That's not even scotch.
That's whiskey."
"Same thing."
Kade stood up now and edged a
little closer. His eyes never left mine. "How can you not like Jack
Daniels? That's, like, a Tennessee institution. They make it there, don't
they?"
"They do." My heart
was beating fast. "But Collier and McKeel is more my thing."
"How do you know so much
about all these drinks, anyway?" he said in that deep, slow voice.
"The legal age is twenty-one in Tennessee."
I knew my eyes were
broadcasting sheer want. He felt it. I'm sure he did, because his eyes fed that
want right back at me. "I'm a delinquent."
"You are." He took
another step closer. I could hear his breathing now. Deeper. Faster.
"Collier and McKeel... remind me to let you try Seagram's 83 sometime.
Canadians make the best whiskey. Perfect for a delinquent like you."
"I'm actually more of a
wine person. At least I used to be." We were so close now, barely a hand span
away. Those green eyes never left mine, and consumed me.
"Wine? I can see that.
I'd peg you as a fan of white. You speak Sauvignon Blanc?" The way he said
those French words sounded so sexy.
"I speak
champagne," I said huskily. "Dom Perignon makes the most amazing
Cristal. White Gold is—" I choked off the words, feeling suddenly like I
was drowning, and I turned away from Kade. I couldn't hold back the sudden
tears.
I almost hoped he would wrap
his arms around me and carry me away from the horrors of the past and save me
from the guilt, but when I looked at him I saw he'd retreated to the shade
again. He was sitting on the log with his arms crossed, facing away from me,
staring at the river.
