(Indebted #1)
Publication date: August 14th 2014
Genres: Adult, Romance
“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.
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Excerpt:
THE
WORLD WAS a dangerous place, but I was worse.
The
human race left the dark ages behind—technology improved and ruined
our lives in equal measure, and the devils in society hid with better
camouflage.
As
the years rolled by, and we left our barbaric ways behind, people
forgot about the shadows lurking in plain sight. Men like me morphed
into predators in sheep’s clothing. We preyed on the weak with no
apology, and everything landed in our fucking laps. Civilization
cloaked us, hiding the animals at heart.
We
traded caveman mentality and murder for suits and softly spoken
curses. I hid my true temper beneath a veil of decorum. I mastered
the art of suave.
People
who knew me said I was a gentleman. They called me distinguished,
accomplished, and shrewd.
I
was all of those things, but none of them. We might live in a
civilized world, but rules and laws didn’t apply to me. I was a
rule-breaker, curse-maker, life-stealer.
The
projection was a farce—but even the worst of us had someone who
owned us. Whether family, honour, or duty.
I’d
embraced my inner barbarian, yet was governed by a hierarchy and when
the Hawk matriarch snapped her fingers, we all came running.
Including
my arsehole of a father, Bryan Hawk.
There,
in the cigar and cognac laced library, I learned a truth that forever
changed my life.
And
hers.
My
family owned another.
An
IOU on their entire existence.
To
this day, I didn’t know why, and I didn’t bother asking.
Who
gave a shit why a wealthy family called the Weavers were indebted to
us? Who gave a damn that they’d royally fucked off my family and
earned the wrath of my ancestors?
All
I cared about was the news I’d inherited something more than just
money, possessions, or titles.
My
twenty-ninth birthday gave me a pet. A toy.
A
responsibility I didn’t want.
Debts
I had to extract from unwilling flesh.
A
job to uphold our family honour.
Nila
Weaver.
One
mistake six hundred years ago put a curse on her entire family.
One
mistake sold her life to me in a mountain of unpayable debt.
I
inherited her.
I
preyed on her.
I
owned her life and had the piece of paper to prove it.
Nila
Weaver.
Mine.
And
my task…
…
…
devour
her.
Pepper Winters is a NYT and USA Today International Bestseller. She 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. She's also honoured to wear the IndieReader Badge for being a Top 10 Indie Bestsellers, best BDSM series voted by the SmutClub, and recently signed a two book deal with Grand Central. Her books are currently being translated into numerous languages and will be in bookstores in the near future.
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I've heard such great things about this series!
ReplyDeleteI loved her Monsters in the Dark series so I know she can write her butt off! Hopefully, I'll get to this one soon :)
The book sounds interesting. I can't imagine using a person as payment for a debt until they can afford to pay. I'd love to find out how it all turns out. Thanks for having the giveaway.
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