From Award-winning author AJ Rose, Defenseless is a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping story of love through adversity.

Kyle Decker knew dating Jesse McGovern would change his life. Young and in love-and with the Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality-the world is theirs to conquer.

But their victorious Pride celebration ends in a savage attack, brutally demonstrating they're far from equal. Instead of wedding planning, Jesse and Kyle face an arduous recovery and a shattered sense of safety. Their once-promising future is suddenly something to survive.

While Jesse struggles with the emotional and physical aftermath of a permanent injury, Kyle's single-minded focus on Jesse is the only thing keeping his demons at bay...for now. What was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of love is now full of lies and resentment.

With their dreams tattered and forever changed, trusting anyone-even each other-is daunting. So how can they have faith in twelve strangers on a jury? They've already learned the hard way it only takes a moment to become truly defenseless.

Defenseless contains scenes of graphic violence and both extreme and covert homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. Reader discretion strongly advised.