Today we're revealing the
cover to Pepper Winter’s upcoming, Destroyed. Destroyed will be released
in February 2014 and is a standalone.
Title: Destroyed
Author: Pepper
Winters
Release
Date: February 17, 2014
~SYNOPSIS~
She’s a woman with a dirty
secret.
I’m complicated. Not broken or
ruined or running from a past I can’t face. Just complicated. For good reason.
I thought my life couldn’t get
any more tangled in deceit and confusion. But I hadn’t met him. I hadn’t been
sucked into his lies or taught to run from everything that he is. Instead, I
let him ensnare me, seduce me, trap me with secrets—Hazel Hunter
He’s a man with a killer secret.
I’ve never pretended to be good
or deserving. Despite the shadows I live in, I’m ultimately a slave to my
secrets and that gives me a free pass to chase who I want, be who 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 how could I deny her? How could I deny my one chance at redemption? But
then she tried to run. I’d found a cure to my existence and damned if I would
let her go—Roan Fox.
And secrets silently destroy
them.
~PROLOGUE~
I didn’t believe her when she said she was complicated.
She didn’t believe me when I said I had secrets.
I didn’t understand the truth, even when she let me glimpse
behind her mask.
She didn’t understand that I couldn’t live with the
consequences.
I thought she was a saint.
She thought I was a sinner.
Too bad we didn’t try to find the truth.
We both paid the price.
We destroyed each other.
~EXCERPT~
Grabbing my case, I wheeled it fast, dodging people until I was
close enough to say, “You owe me.”
Slamming to a halt, he spun around.
Fear suffocated my throat as he seemed to grow larger, adopting
an icy exterior that gave no hint of remorse or humanity.
I froze, locked in his ferocious stare.
He shuddered as his entire body went into lockdown. Muscles
bunched beneath his clothing, his aura trembled with aggression and rebellion.
“I owe you nothing,” he spit.
My heart raced. Truth screamed loud and clear. Somehow he got
those scars thanks to a debt gone wrong. He wasn’t a free man. He was owned by
someone who either kept him on a tight leash, or abused him so much it wouldn’t
take much more for him to snap.
Hardly breathing for fear of retribution, I dropped my eyes to
his forearm. Corded muscle spoke of strength while the fine haze of brown hair
obscured another pink and fresh scar. Even the pinpricks of recently removed
stitches were visible on either side of the knitted together flesh.
My God. What happened to him?
A war battled inside me. I wanted to forget all about him, all
the while begging to know everything. I’d never met anyone who had such deep
complexities like me. He didn’t hide them as well as I did. His nerves were
frayed, his grip on normalcy slipping.
Stiffening my spine, I whispered, “Give me your name. You know
mine. It’s only fair.”
For a moment, I thought he would throttle me. Reach out and grab
my throat in his large hands and wring the air from my body. But then his anger
diminished, flickered out to be replaced with utter weariness.
“Pretend I never saw yours. You’re not getting my name.”
~ABOUT PEPPER WINTERS~
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. Her debut book Tears of Tess
is followed by Quintessentially Q and Twisted Together. You didn’t think Q
could stop so soon, did you? Her other two titles, Last Shadow and Broken
Chance will be coming soon.
Email Pepper at
pepperwinters@gmail.com
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