Second Debt

Indebted Series – Book 3

By Pepper Winters

Release Date: January 26, 2015

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Synopsis

“I tried to play a game. I tried to wield deceit as perfectly as the Hawks. But when I thought I was winning, I wasn’t. Jethro isn’t what he seems—he’s the master of duplicity. However, I refuse to let him annihilate me further.”

Nila Weaver has grown from naïve seamstress to full-blown fighter. Every humdrum object is her arsenal, and sex…sex is her greatest weapon of all.

She’s paid the First Debt. She’ll probably pay more.

But she has no intention of letting the Hawks win.

Jethro Hawk has found more than a worthy adversary in Nila—he’s found the woman who could destroy him. There’s a fine line between hatred and love, and an even finer path between fear and respect.

The fate of his house rests on his shoulders, but no matter how much ice lives inside his heart, Nila flames too bright to be extinguished.

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Excerpt Reveal

~ Jethro ~

^{I’D TAKEN HER, but ultimately, she’d taken me.}

^{I’d tried to destroy her, but serendipitously, she’d destroyed me.}

^{This was the beginning of the end.}

^{Not the end of my feelings for her but the way of my life, my world.}

^{Something would have to change.}

^{Something would have to give…}

^…

^{Someone would have to die.}

~ Nila ~

Just thinking of Jethro sent a spasm of desire through my core.

Dammit, what’s happening to me?

A daydream of Jethro slamming to his knees before me and wrenching my legs wide stole my mind. It was so vivid, so real—a trickle of need ran down my inner thigh. I gasped as I imagined his tongue lapping at my clit, his long fingers disappearing inside me—the same finger that I’d tattooed with my name.

Would I come harder knowing he touched me with a finger branded by me? Or would I hold on as tight as I could and make him work for it?

Oh, God.

I needed to get rid of this satanic desire. I needed to be free.

My eyes opened, latching onto the detachable showerhead.

I could do it myself…

My heartbeat whizzed with need. I couldn’t fight the churning demand any longer.

Reaching upward, I unhooked the showerhead and turned the water temperature down so as not to burn myself.

Feeling awkward and ridiculous and a hundred times guilty for what I was about to do, I braced my back on the tiled wall and spread my legs a little.

My teeth clamped on my bottom lip as the water pressure tickled my clit.

Oh. My. God.

My eyes rolled back as I grew bolder and pressed the stream of heavenly water harder against my pussy.

Water cascaded down my legs while my torso shivered from sudden cold. My nipples stiffened as I wickedly angled the jet down and down until water shot inside me. Every jet and bubble aroused sensitive flesh, sending my muscles clenching in joy.

I moaned.

Loudly.

My legs trembled as my neck flopped forward and I gave myself over to the exquisite pleasure conjured by an innocuous showerhead.

Starbursts flashed behind my eyelids; Jethro loomed into my mind. I pictured him shrugging out of his black shirt, prowling toward me while unbuckling his belt and unzipping his trousers. I moaned again as my daydream shed his clothing and stood proud and naked before me. He grabbed his cock, pumping himself hard and firm, while his eyes feasted on what I was doing. He didn’t say a word, only watched, then crooked his finger and beckoned me closer.

My heartbeat exceeded recommended limits as I forced myself higher and higher, locking my knees against buckling as an orgasm brewed into being. I rocked the showerhead, biting my lip as the pressure spurted over my clit and then inside me. The rhythm I set was exactly like fucking and I daren’t overthink how I looked or how depraved I felt getting off this way.

My daydream forced its way past my misgivings. My forehead furrowed as I trembled, both welcoming and fighting an orgasm.

Daydream Jethro crept closer, working his cock, a dangerous glint in his eyes. The moment I was within grabbing distance, he captured my waist. “I need to be inside you, Nila.” I put words into Jethro’s mouth, but it was his voice I heard in my heart.

I moaned again, angling the showerhead harder against my clit.

“How do you want it?” my fantasy whispered in my ear as he spun me around and pressed me hard against the wall.

I swallowed hard, answering in my mind. “Fast and…”

“Filthy?” Daydream Jethro’s nose nuzzled the back of my ear, sending shockwaves down my spine. “I can fuck you filthy.”

I couldn’t speak. But I didn’t have to. My fantasy knew exactly how I needed it. Jethro bit the back of my shoulder, spreading my legs wider with his.

“Fuck me, Jethro Hawk,” I whispered.

“Oh, I will. Believe me, I will.” Without further warning, he dug his fingers into my hips and slammed inside me.

My fingers went numb as I slid the showerhead from clit to entrance. I cried out as water shot inside at the same time as Jethro thrust into me from behind, sliding deep and fast, stretching me deliciously painfully.

My heart exploded with bliss. An orgasm squeezed every atom, getting ready to hurl me into the stratosphere.

Jethro thrust again and I rode my new friend the showerhead.

“Oh, God. Yes,” I hissed, rocking harder. “Yes, yes…”

A masculine cough sounded. “You continue to surprise me, Ms. Weaver; at least this time, I rather enjoy it.”

Everything crashed into awareness. My daydream shattered, fracturing by my feet like broken glass. I squealed and dropped the showerhead. It turned into a water snake, spewing water left and right, wriggling like some terrible demon.

Jethro snickered. “You’re using up the entire Hall’s supply of hot water. Are you planning on saving some for the rest of the inhabitants of my home?”

Michel’s Review

The long awaited third book in the Indebted Series by Pepper Winters has finally released! Second Debt picks up where First Debt ended.  Nila Weaver is reeling from the revelations that Kes Hawk told her about Kite.  Kite is Jethro Hawk.  With these revelations, she is trying to figure out what Jethro’s motives were.  What she should feel.  Does this change her fascination and draw to her sworn enemy or does this put them on even playing ground?

Nila makes a horrific discovery that turns her heart to stone where Jethro Hawk is concerned.  This discovery makes her more determined to fight her impending outcome after the debts are paid.  She is going to change the future for all Weaver women.  She is going to take the Hawks down.

At the same time, Jethro is trying to show Nila that he is Kite.  That there is another, truer side to his persona.  But he is fighting to remain a Hawk and do what his birthright demands.  He is horrified by his legacy.  He is horrified of who he is.  He is horrified that he is going to lose what little bit of Nila he has.

The Debt Inheritance will destroy them both.  One will die, one will remain living but be dead inside.

Nila and Jethro can’t harness their attraction and growing feelings for one another.  No matter how hard they try to deny these feelings, their souls are entwined.  Their fates were sealed long before they were born.  Can they change fate and create a new destiny?

Meanwhile their destinies are becoming further out of their control.  Other Hawk players are stirring the ship, ensuring that the debts are paid.  Each player is ruthless.  They don’t really care if Jethro carries out his legacy.  They only care that the latest Weaver woman pays the debts.  Jethro’s legacy is only a means to an end.

The second debt is paid.  It is just as horrific, if not more so.  Nila barely survived the payment.  Jethro barely survived extracting the payment.  His family is celebrating both of their failures because now they are in control.

At the end of this book, the final scene has the reader’s mind reeling.  The cliffhanger is so shocking that the reader wonders where Nila and Jethro are going to end up.  I think that there are going to be a lot more than the debts the Weavers owe the Hawks.  It is going to be a battle of evil verses good.

As I said new Hawk’s were introduced into this series.  The Hawk women came into play.  The Hawk brothers are questionable.

I am addicted to this series.  It is like driving past a horrific accident and gawking at the morbid scene.  Trying to figure out what happened and if anyone survived it.

I will say that the pacing of this book was slower than the other previous two books.  There was a lot of back and forth, “I can” and “I can’t, “I should” and “I shouldn’t” going on.  I would’ve liked to seen more dialogue between Jethro and Nila rather than the indecisiveness that was going through their heads.  It was a bit repetitive.  I did like that Pepper revealed more about Jethro Hawk.  We got a glimpse of who is beneath the Hawk identity.  I also liked that the other Hawk family members were more active in this book.  It gave the reader a better understanding of the cruel background that Jethro has endured.  This book also left me with so many questions.

Now I will be biting at the bits for the Third Debt to release.  The Indebted Series owns me!

Indebted

Indebted Series

By Pepper Winters

Synopsis

“I own you. I have the piece of paper to prove it. It’s undeniable and unbreakable. You belong to me until you’ve paid off your debts.”

Nila Weaver’s family is indebted. Being the first born daughter, her life is forfeit to the first born son of the Hawks to pay for sins of ancestors past. The dark ages might have come and gone, but debts never leave. She has no choice in the matter.

She is no longer free.

Jethro Hawk receives Nila as an inheritance present on his twenty-ninth birthday. Her life is his until she’s paid off a debt that’s centuries old. He can do what he likes with her—nothing is out of bounds—she has to obey.

There are no rules. Only payments.

A modern day Dark Erotic Romance

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First Debt

Indebted #2

Series: Indebted

By Pepper Winters

Synopsis

“You say I’ll never own you. If I win—you willingly give me that right. You sign not only the debt agreement, but another—one that makes me your master until your last breath is taken. You do that, and I’ll give you this.”

Nila Weaver’s family is indebted. Stolen, taken, and bound not by monsters but by an agreement written over six hundred years ago, she has no way out.

She belongs to Jethro as much as she denies it.

Jethro Hawk’s patience is running out. His inheritance gift tests, challenges, and surprises him—and not in good ways. He hasn’t leashed her but he thinks he might’ve found a way to bind her forever.

Debts are mounting. Payment waiting.

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Author Bio

Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex… her books have sex.

She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends.

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