A Sweeping Standalone from New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters.
“Things you should know about me from the very beginning:
I was born to true love, witnessed the destruction it causes, and vowed never to let such agony happen to me. I am not a story-teller like my father. I am not a writer like my mother. I am just a son—their son.
I am happy being alone.
And that is all I ever want to be.”
JACOB
The day he was born, Jacob learned his hardest and longest lesson.
It wasn’t a lesson a boy should learn so young, but from his earliest memories he knew where happiness lives, so does tragedy. Where love exists, so does heartbreak. And where hope resides, so does sorrow.
That lesson carved him from the kid to the teen to the man.
And nothing and no one could change his mind.
HOPE
I first met him when he was fourteen at a movie premiere of all places. A movie based on his parent’s life.
He was stoic, strong, suspicious, and secretive.
I was only ten, but I felt something for him. A strange kind of sorrow that made me want to hug and heal him.
I was the daughter of the actor hired to play his father.
We shared similarities.
I recognised parts of him because they were parts of me.
But no matter how many times we met. No matter how many times I tried.
He stayed true to his vow to never fall.
“Things you should know about me from the very beginning:
I was born to true love, witnessed the destruction it causes, and vowed never to let such agony happen to me. I am not a story-teller like my father. I am not a writer like my mother. I am just a son—their son.
I am happy being alone.
And that is all I ever want to be.”
JACOB
The day he was born, Jacob learned his hardest and longest lesson.
It wasn’t a lesson a boy should learn so young, but from his earliest memories he knew where happiness lives, so does tragedy. Where love exists, so does heartbreak. And where hope resides, so does sorrow.
That lesson carved him from the kid to the teen to the man.
And nothing and no one could change his mind.
HOPE
I first met him when he was fourteen at a movie premiere of all places. A movie based on his parent’s life.
He was stoic, strong, suspicious, and secretive.
I was only ten, but I felt something for him. A strange kind of sorrow that made me want to hug and heal him.
I was the daughter of the actor hired to play his father.
We shared similarities.
I recognised parts of him because they were parts of me.
But no matter how many times we met. No matter how many times I tried.
He stayed true to his vow to never fall.
GENRE: Romance
PUBLICATION: February 12th, 2019
’THE SUN & HIS HOPE’
is the third book in Pepper Winters ‘The Ribbon Duet' series. It picks up where the second book left off.
5 GUT-WRENCHING 'WILD ONE & LITTLE LACE' STARS
Jacob's downfall started occurring when his parents life was made into a movie, seeing it on the big screen of the premiere and re-living the last moments of his father's life had an ever lasting effect on fourteen year old Jacob. It was during opening night that he also met a ten year old Hope, her father had played Ren. He didn't know it at that stage that she would be the bane of his existence. Just like him she'd lost a parent, she had an unhealthy fascination with death and the afterlife, all she wanted in the whole wide world was a friend and she was hoping above all else that Jacob would become her person.
But as the years sped by and she came and stayed on the Wild's farm to find herself and to decide what she wanted in life, she found it odd that she was more at home there with dirt under her nails instead of walking the red carpet, and the the one true thing that never changed and remained the same year after year was the boy who was forever cruel to her, always cold hearted, always closed off, always short tempered, always and forever pushing her away, always running away. Always breaking little pieces of her heart each and every-time. A boy who had become hardened by death.
Love for me? It was a drug I was addicted to. I'd grown up drunk on it with parents I adored. But the blind belief that my world would always be perfect was chipped away piece by piece every time Dad coughed until all that remained was a bleeding heart and the stark understanding that it was simply better not to care. Saner not to bother. Less agonising not to fall.
I feel so freaking drained, I feel like I've been pulled through a hedge backwards, then run over by a mactruck, the many many many hours I spent reading this, and the hours I spent with my heart in tatters over a boy who couldn't love, my heart was broken more times than I could count. My nerves were raw, Beaten, Bruised. Destroyed. This book to put it mildly simply gutted me.
Caskets, cremations, and crying littered my mind, trapping my feelings, caging my love, preventing me from breaking the chains I'd lived within since childhood.
All the feels in the world, the angst, the angst just about killed me, the tears that I kept holding at bay, the constant anger and never ending whip-lash with the too-ing and fro-ing, like a yoyo loving Jacob one minute annoyed at him the next and his one true constant was Hope. The gut wrenching heartache that wanted to claim me, but then above all was the all consuming love I had for this author's words. Hope was just perfect for Jacob one of the strongest, most annoying heroine I've come across, but god I loved her resilience.
She was so free, he was tethered to promises. These characters will forever own a piece of my heart.
A deeply compelling family saga, a truly beautifully written story of love, loss and second chances.
A boy so closed off, afraid to love, Love...that was the most dangerous thing a person could do. to touch, to feel, to lose someone he loves again would destroy him completely, where a cough sends him in a frenzy, thinking death has that person in its clutches. His emotions are on lock down, only one person has the key, and she annoys the sh#t out of him. A battle of tug of war, he pushes, she moves closer, he hates, she loves, these two were utter perfection. A battle of wills ensued from their very first meet.
Best song to listen to whilst reading this!!
Love Someone by Lukas Graham
5 GUT-WRENCHING 'WILD ONE & LITTLE LACE' STARS
Jacob's downfall started occurring when his parents life was made into a movie, seeing it on the big screen of the premiere and re-living the last moments of his father's life had an ever lasting effect on fourteen year old Jacob. It was during opening night that he also met a ten year old Hope, her father had played Ren. He didn't know it at that stage that she would be the bane of his existence. Just like him she'd lost a parent, she had an unhealthy fascination with death and the afterlife, all she wanted in the whole wide world was a friend and she was hoping above all else that Jacob would become her person.
But as the years sped by and she came and stayed on the Wild's farm to find herself and to decide what she wanted in life, she found it odd that she was more at home there with dirt under her nails instead of walking the red carpet, and the the one true thing that never changed and remained the same year after year was the boy who was forever cruel to her, always cold hearted, always closed off, always short tempered, always and forever pushing her away, always running away. Always breaking little pieces of her heart each and every-time. A boy who had become hardened by death.
Love for me? It was a drug I was addicted to. I'd grown up drunk on it with parents I adored. But the blind belief that my world would always be perfect was chipped away piece by piece every time Dad coughed until all that remained was a bleeding heart and the stark understanding that it was simply better not to care. Saner not to bother. Less agonising not to fall.
I feel so freaking drained, I feel like I've been pulled through a hedge backwards, then run over by a mactruck, the many many many hours I spent reading this, and the hours I spent with my heart in tatters over a boy who couldn't love, my heart was broken more times than I could count. My nerves were raw, Beaten, Bruised. Destroyed. This book to put it mildly simply gutted me.
Caskets, cremations, and crying littered my mind, trapping my feelings, caging my love, preventing me from breaking the chains I'd lived within since childhood.
All the feels in the world, the angst, the angst just about killed me, the tears that I kept holding at bay, the constant anger and never ending whip-lash with the too-ing and fro-ing, like a yoyo loving Jacob one minute annoyed at him the next and his one true constant was Hope. The gut wrenching heartache that wanted to claim me, but then above all was the all consuming love I had for this author's words. Hope was just perfect for Jacob one of the strongest, most annoying heroine I've come across, but god I loved her resilience.
She was so free, he was tethered to promises. These characters will forever own a piece of my heart.
A deeply compelling family saga, a truly beautifully written story of love, loss and second chances.
A boy so closed off, afraid to love, Love...that was the most dangerous thing a person could do. to touch, to feel, to lose someone he loves again would destroy him completely, where a cough sends him in a frenzy, thinking death has that person in its clutches. His emotions are on lock down, only one person has the key, and she annoys the sh#t out of him. A battle of tug of war, he pushes, she moves closer, he hates, she loves, these two were utter perfection. A battle of wills ensued from their very first meet.
Best song to listen to whilst reading this!!
Love Someone by Lukas Graham
♫ There are days
I wake up and I pinch myself
You're with me, not someone else
And I am scared, yeah, I'm still scared
That it's all a dream
'Cause you still look perfect as days go by
Even the worst ones, you make me smile
I'd stop the world if it gave us time
'Cause when you love someone
You open up your heart
When you love someone
You make room
If you love someone
And you're not afraid to lose 'em
You'll probably never love someone like I do
You'll probably never love someone like I do
When you say
You love the way I make you feel
Everything becomes so real
Don't be scared, no, don't be scared
'Cause you're all I need
And you still look perfect as days go by
Even the worst ones, you make me smile
I'd stop the world if it gave us time
'Cause when…♫
FINE....
* Teasers used are off the authors facebook page *
Pepper Winters is a multiple New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today International Bestseller.
After chasing her dreams to become a full-time writer, Pepper has earned recognition with awards for best Dark Romance, best BDSM Series, and best Hero. She’s an multiple #1 iBooks bestseller, along with #1 in Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, and Erotica Thriller. With 20 books currently published, she has hit the bestseller charts twenty-nine times in three years.
Pepper is a Hybrid Author of both Traditional and Self-published work. Her Pure Corruption Series was released by Grand Central, Hachette.
Her books have garnered foreign interest and are currently being translated into numerous languages, including already released titles in Italian, French, Hebrew, German, and Turkish. Audio Books for her entire back-list will be available in 2018.
After chasing her dreams to become a full-time writer, Pepper has earned recognition with awards for best Dark Romance, best BDSM Series, and best Hero. She’s an multiple #1 iBooks bestseller, along with #1 in Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, and Erotica Thriller. With 20 books currently published, she has hit the bestseller charts twenty-nine times in three years.
Pepper is a Hybrid Author of both Traditional and Self-published work. Her Pure Corruption Series was released by Grand Central, Hachette.
Her books have garnered foreign interest and are currently being translated into numerous languages, including already released titles in Italian, French, Hebrew, German, and Turkish. Audio Books for her entire back-list will be available in 2018.
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