Blog Tour: DESTROYED by Pepper Winters
Title: Destroyed
Series: Stand-alone
Author: Pepper Winters
Genre: Dark (Lighter) / Romance (Grey Romance)
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Tour Organized by: As the Pages Turn
Synopsis:
She has a secret.
I’m complicated. Not broken or ruined or running from a past I can’t face. Just complicated.
I thought my life couldn’t get any more tangled in deceit and confusion. But I hadn’t met him. I hadn’t realized how far I could fall or what I’d do to get free.
He has a secret.
I’ve never pretended to be good or deserving. I chase who I want, do what I want, act how I want.
I didn’t have time to lust after a woman I had no right to lust after. I told myself to shut up and stay hidden. But then she tried to run. I’d tasted what she could offer me and damned if I would let her go.
One secret destroys them.
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Excerpt
It was the best kiss I’d ever received, but also the worst. It sparked lust and need in every inch of me. My lips wanted more, my tongue wanted savagery. My skin wanted to bruise because he needed to touch me so badly.
All my thoughts disappeared as I nipped at his bottom lip. He flinched, but a second later he copied, his sharp canines piercing my oversensitive flesh.
I moaned.
I couldn’t take it.
My hands flew up and gripped his shirt. Yanking him toward me, fireworks whizzed in my fingertips; my heart galloped toward exploding with lust. I’d never been so drunk on someone before.
Then I landed flat on my back.
The crack of my skull jangled my teeth. The thick carpet did little to cushion me. My eyes flared wide and I grunted in pain. Fear, hot and terrible, swamped my lust in a dampening wave.
“Top rule. Unbreakable rule. Don’t. Ever. Touch. Me.” Fox kneeled on one knee beside my head, breathing hard. His hand noosed my throat, pressing my spine into the carpet. His eyes were cold and lifeless, looking like a hunter intent on blood. –HAZEL
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Dawn’s Review 4.5 Stars
Ummm… wow… I hardly know what to say about Destroyed. Other than it was a flipping rollercoaster ride of emotions! It was one that I felt myself beyond compelled to continue until the very last page, just as Roan and Hazel feel compelled to be with each other, regardless of the fact that destruction is waiting around the corner for them. And dammit if Pepper didn’t make me cry!! (that’s not easy, either) I’m not going to give any spoilers so for that reason, I’ll try to avoid any specifics in my review.
Pepper Winters dove headfirst into the dark places within both Roan and Hazel, gripping me in their internal struggles and their absolute need for each other. But at what price? Initially, I did struggle a little with the pace but it very quickly picked up and kept me turning pages. As the story built, my heart ached for both Roan and Hazel and their friends and families. I was on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen next. Pepper knows exactly how to draw out the emotions in me as a reader. I felt the conflict and the need for that elusive possibility of peace.
Destroyed, like Pepper’s previous works, is inventive and unexpected. There is pain, destruction, fear, tragedy, love, family, and redemption. It is one that will definitely stay with me and destroyed me in several different ways. Another must-read from Pepper Winters!
ARC provided for honest review
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Excerpt
“You didn’t say anything about bondage.”
He shook his head. “It isn’t bondage. It’s protection.”
Fear thickened as I looked into his eyes. “Protection? From what?”
He stood, his colourless gaze ripping me bare. “Me.” –HAZEL
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About the Author
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 speaks French—hot!) who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends. She loves to hear from her readers so hit her up at pepperwinters@gmail.com
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