Title: Damage Me
Series: Crystal Gulf
Author: Shana Vanterpool
Publisher: Swoon Romance
Genre: NA, Contemporary
Release Date: 5th July 2016
AUTHOR WARNING & CONTENT WARNING: This
story contains triggers for rape victims and soldiers. I did my best to remain
respectful to the healing process for both. Hillary’s feelings are hers alone
and ONLY represent how she feels about her attack. Dylan’s emotions about his
time at war are his ALONE. You are all strong and beautiful, and you will soar
again!
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A broken soldier …
Dylan Meyer lived his life fast and hard, doing anything to keep
his emotions masked. In Crystal Gulf, Texas, women, drugs, and alcohol are in
abundance. After all, it’s a college town. But eventually, his lifestyle caught
up to him. The birth of his daughter, Aubrey, forced him to grow up and take
responsibility for his actions. He let his vices go, cleaned up his act, and
allowed himself to fall for Harley Evans.
But Dylan is a liar.
He lied to himself. To Harley. To his best friend, Bach. And then
he lied himself right into a U.S. Army uniform. When he went to war, he left
Harley with his best friend in hopes that he’d look out for her while he was
deployed. Not in his darkest nightmares did he think Bach and Harley would fall
in love.
A fallen angel …
Hillary Hayes is an eighteen-year-old sophomore in college who
understands the importance of rules. She’s followed them her entire life. She
gets perfect grades, avoids dating, and won’t stray from the future her mother
mapped out. On the outside, she’s perfect. Inside, she's drowning.
That carefully crafted future disappears when she downs a beer at a
party. What’s left of that night is the wreckage of the girl she used to
be.
Until she meets Dylan. Her brother’s best friend.
When Dylan returns from war, he can’t move past the betrayal. His
daughter’s growing up without him. Flashbacks and PTSD from his time in
Afghanistan consume him. He loses himself in a dark depression. There is no
light in his darkness …until he meets Hillary. His best friend’s little sister
is the only good thing among all the bad.
He’s her safe place.
She’s his light.
Can two damaged souls ever find peace, or is the damage too much
to overcome?
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EXCERPT
Before
I met Harley, this was who I was. A man who used whatever he wanted to use to
forget the darkness of his past. A man who hurt to hide his hurt. And a man who
lied to hide the truth. When I came home and woke up from surgery, Bach kept me
in the dark for some time before he told me the truth. He’d taken my girl when
he promised to watch out for her. Ever since that day, I’d let the lies go and
slid back into my old skin.
This
was Dylan Meyer.
Like
him or not.
A
man who had fallen too many times to bother trying to get up again. I’d lie
there, on the floor, with gravel in my wounds and my eyes staring up at the
midnight sky until I found this uncomfortable position comfortable again.
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