Smokin' Hot Reads: Blog Tour: Indebted #1 by Pepper Winters

“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

ONE - Nina's POV

“Huge disappointment, Ms. Weaver.” His cold glare sent a snowstorm wiping away the bonfire in my belly. “I’m done playing games, so cut the bullshit. Time to begin the day.” His voice gave no room for interpretation. A cold draft shot down my back.

My brief reprieve from debts and horrible Hawks was over. I’d been shown something I desperately wanted, but denied it because I failed to please him.

“You could teach me…show me how…” I couldn’t make eye contact with him. Mortification painted my cheeks for both admitting I was clueless and asking a monster to coach me.

Jethro laughed. “You think that will save you from what’s coming? Was that your little plan? To make me fuck you in the hopes I might feel something for you?”

TWO - Jethro's POV

I stood up slowly, clicking my tongue. “Ah, ah, ah, Ms. Weaver. Don’t take that tone with me. You’re the failure. You’re the prisoner. You take what I give you. You do not assume to have any say or authority. That includes listening to everything I deem important to tell you.” Ghosting to a stop in front of her, I murmured, “Is that quite understood?”

I flexed my muscles, welcoming back the soothing chillness of control. I hadn’t liked stepping outside my confines of civility. Things got messy when silence was disrupted. Things got rushed when tempers rose and curses flowed.

And I didn’t want to rush her undoing. I wanted to savour it. Devour it.

This book aroused my mind and body on so many levels. It entranced me and had me begging for more. I can't get enough of her writing. She's so gifted its freaking insane! Reading her words is a literary and enlightening experience always. She takes your body and mind to unthinkable places and has you yearning for more. Her words have double meaning - she writes poetic language so naturally. Her masterful words evoke emotion and have you creating the images alongside so vividly.

The Hawks have maintained a long standing tradition that is less than pleasant. It's down right despicable. But I won't deny I'm very eager to find out how Nila repays her Debt to Jethro specifically.

The first installment of INDEBTED #1 Debt Inheritance will challenge your morals. Set your heart racing. Have your private parts tingling and throbbing. Jethro is dominant, complicated and sexy as F...! Nila is way out of her league in terms of comfort, fairness and experience. She must keep her head straight when dealing with the Hawks if she wants to survive. Jethro is undeniably hard to resist and tempts ME and her body in unimaginable ways.

A taste of a few QUOTES to wet your appetite…..

"The fire I'd nursed inside was gone. All the stupid pretending that I could block the worst from damaging my soul disappeared."

"The bloom wasn't fresh like the bud of a rose but black. The unfurling petals dropped with filth, sprouting from a place I never wanted to acknowledge."

"He belonged to a family that ruined mine. He had no compassion."

"Coldness etched his gaze. Aloofness whispered from his postures. I'd never been so intimidated or so intimately challenged."

“Thankfully, the lack of hunger tripped time, merging the men and tongues into a merry-go-round of nightmares.”

Winters has enthralled me yet again. I'm head over heels addicted to this slighlty suspenseful tragic tale - that's full of dark and twisted, rich with family tradition, filled with retribution and peppered with lusty hot moments. It’s sinful and darkly delicious.

This is a truly unique story that has so much promise - to break my heart and piece it back one shard at a time. It's survivable perhaps - but is sure to take us all on a dark journey that is erotic, unthinkable and magnificent!

She's crafted a new spin on the kidnap/captor type story that is beyond clever. I want the forbidden relationship that will ruin yet complete the heroine. I hate to find my self drawn to the hero that is so unaffected by his punishments its wrong... But at times oh so right. It's the chase that has my hairs standing on end. Her stories always have me on sensory overload. I'm a glutton for punishment Pepper style. Yes, they are taboo a bit naughty and border on offensive. But they are weaved together with utter brilliance and thought that they are beauty and pain personified.

I'm desperate for my next First Debt INDEBTED #2 fix now! This last installment set up the history and present. What the future holds only time will tell. I'm certain she's got a masterful plan in store for Nila, Jethro, the Weavers, Hawks and US ferocious readers.

Pepper has a knack for feeding my addiction to dark romance, with sick and twisted plots that are profound and unpredictable. They bleed me and complete me. They aren't for the faint of heart that is for sure. Be prepared! You know her style by now and she has brought her A Game to the table. Heed her warning it is not a carousel ride but a delicious stampede.

I do not know even where to start with this review of Debt Inheritance! Pepper Winters has such a way with bring us a dark and twisted story like no other author can. She can bring us the most twisted of them all and make you fall in love with them… I constantly ask myself, how does she do that!! Debt Inheritance is no different. Again she brings us the dark alpha male in Jethro Hawk. He’s dark, mysterious, and you better believe always in charge. The story is not for everyone… I did struggle with some parts because I’m thinking what sane person would read this but in the end, was so intrigued by it. This is the first book in a series so there is a cliff. We start to know the characters in the story since it is told in a duel POV.

The Weavers and had a family debt owed to the Hawks for generations, the first born Weaver female belongs to the first born son of a Hawk. You are thinking, hello we are in the twenty first century, right???!! The Hawks are very powerful and wealthy family and they feel they are entitled to this debt. They can make anything happen, they can pay off politicians, police, and judges. There is no limit to their family power. When Nila Weaver is celebrating her launch of her successful clothing line, she soon discovers that her life is no longer her own.

“I was never an individual: I was a possession to trade. I was never unique; someone had lived my life many times before, never free, never whole. My life was never mine.”

She is forced by her father to go with the intriguing and handsome Jethro Hawk. She assumes she is going to a celebratory drink but quickly learns that her father has given her to Jethro. He blackmails her in going with him threating her brother and her father’s lives. In a small amount of time, Nila is able to get under Jethro’s skin like no woman has. He knows that she is now his possession until he sees fit. She doesn’t realize how much of a possession she is until she meets the rest of the Hawk clan. She knows she needs to stay strong, not to break.

“I had to adapt and sell myself. Make him care. Make him feel… Could I break his ice and find a man deep inside- a man who I could seduce, beguile, and ultimately use to stay alive?

Will Nila be able to find an alley in Jethro? Or will she end up like the rest of the Weaver women, used and held like a procession? I am so intrigued on how the next book will play out. Even though Jethro comes across cold and ruthless, at times we see a glimpse of something more. There is something so intriguing about him. I cannot wait to read more! 4 solid stars for me.

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.