SIN AND SUFFER (Pure Corruption MC #2) by Pepper Winters-a review

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About the book: Release Date January 26, 2016

“Some say the past is in the past. That vengeance will hurt both innocent and guilty. I never believed those lies. Once my lust for revenge is sated, I’ll say goodbye to hatred. I’ll find a new beginning.”

SIN & SUFFER

She came from a past Arthur “Kill” Killian never forgot. She made him sin and made him suffer. She tugged him from the shadows and showed him he wasn’t as dead as he thought. And with her resurrection came betrayal, deceit, and war.

But then they took her. Stole her. Imprisoned her.

Now Kill’s carefully laid plans for vengeance are complete. He craves action, retribution-the blood of his enemies. War has begun. War is all they’ll know until they’ve paid their penance. He will get her back-and rewrite their destiny .

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REVIEW: SIN AND SUFFER is the second installment in Pepper Winters’s contemporary, adult PURE CORRUPTION erotic, romance MC series focusing on Arthur ‘Kil’ Killion and Cleo Price. Their continuing story picks up immediately upon the events of book one- RUIN AND RULE–where Kill is left for dead by a rival MC, and Cleo is now a prisoner of the Dagger Rose. SIN AND SUFFER should not be read as a stand alone –all of the events in book two are as a result of the events of book one. For fans of Pepper Winters, there is a very slight ‘cross over’ with the Hawk family and Pepper’s INDEBTED SERIES.

NOTE: If you have not read RUIN AND RULE my review may contain some spoilers.

Told from alternating first person points of view (Kill and Cleo) each chapter is introduced byway of a journal entry that focuses on the events of the past-the building of a relationship between our leading couple. SIN AND SUFFER is a story about redemption and revenge-for and against family; for and against friends; for the loss of a love so deep and pure; a love time and death could not destroy. With Cleo’s return from the ‘dead’, Kill vows to avenge her murder and the time served for a crime he did not commit. But Cleo was now in the hands of the enemy, and Killian has plans to get her out alive. What ensues is a rescue, a recovery, and a proposed timeline in which to destroy what was once Cleo and Kill’s fact of life-the Dagger Rose and all of its’ members were going to die-one way or another. Vengeance is in the hands of the first born.

Kill and Cleo’s love for one another is that of fairy tales and happily ever afters but the path to forever is paved in bloodshed and death; torture and betrayal; loss and grief. For eight years Kill believed Cleo was dead, and that he was the person responsible for everything that destroyed their lives. Fast forward to present day where Killian vows vengeance against the people responsible, then it will be his turn to walk away and making plans for the future with a new life and new wife by his side. Not everyone makes it out alive.

I did have a couple of issues: the first is the use of British terminology in an American setting-something that should have been caught by an editor. And the unreality of Kill’s involvement with the US government and his plans for the future.

SIN AND SUFFER is a suspense filled, gritty look at the MC lifestyle although the entire focus did not center on the Club but meanders a path upon which our hero is about to embark. The premise is gritty, graphic and intense; the characters are colorful, charismatic and impassioned; the romance is seductive, provocative, passionate and enduring; the $ex scenes are numerous and erotic-Arthur Killian is a man in love; who has lost his heart to the girl of his dreams; who has pledged eternity with Cleo in this life and the next. Pepper Winters is the master of betrayal and revenge.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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.

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Her Dark Erotica books include:
Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark #1)
Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark #2)

Her Grey Romance books include:
Destroyed

Her Indebted Series include
Debt Inheritance
First Debt
Second Debt
Third Debt
Fourth Debt
Final Debt
Indebted Epilogue

Pure Corruption
Ruin and Rule
Sin and Suffer