THE GIRL AND HER REN ( The Ribbon Duet #2) by Pepper Winters-review and excerpt tour

THE GIRL AND HER REN
The Ribbon Duet #2
by Pepper Winters
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Genre: adult, contemporary, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 5, 2018

“What do you do when you write down all your secrets? No…that’s not enough. What do you do when you write down all your secrets and the one person who should never read them does?
I’ll tell you what you do.
You hope.”

REN
Ren didn’t know the meaning of love until he took Della for his own.
To begin with he hated her, but as the months bled into years, he learned the opposite of hate, dedicating his life to giving her everything.
Every sacrifice, every gift, he gave wholeheartedly.
But then love turned to lust and ruined everything.

DELLA
I was stupid to write my secrets down, but I’d been stupid before so it was nothing new.
I couldn’t blame him, hate him, fix him.
I tried to move on without him.
But no matter what I did, I couldn’t seem to delete the secrets I’d written.
Until something happened.
Until he came back and read my stupid secrets.
And nothing was the same after that.

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REVIEW: THE GIRL AND HER REN is the second instalment in Pepper Winters’ contemporary, adult THE RIBBON Duet focusing on Ren Wild and Della Ribbon. THE GIRL AND HER REN should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after the events and cliff hanger of book one-The Boy and His Ribbon.

Told from dual first person points of view (Ren and Della), and second person perspective using present day and future reflections of the past THE GIRL AND HER REN is a heart breaking, brilliant and staggering narrative that focuses on twelve years in the life of Ren Wild and Della Ribbon. Where as book one covers the first eighteen years together, THE GIRL AND HER REN is a dramatic, traumatic and realistic introspective about two people on an ill-fated journey of love, laughter, idealism and fate.

From the outset, life would never be easy for Ren and Della; smooth waters gave way to rushing torrents; peace and happiness were but a momentary dreams of ideation and long-sought comfort. Pepper Winters takes the reader on an odyssey of transitory emotions, emotions as volatile and fragile as life itself. Forever is but a fairy-tale of the imagination; romance is a sentiment found only in stories and books…but love….love is permanence, a permanence that transcends life and death, yet in the end not everyone finds the perfection that is the love between Della and Ren.

THE GIRL AND HER REN is a dual introspection of one man’s struggle to be the man deserving of his happily ever after, and one woman’s battle to prove he is worthy of that love. Pepper Winters writes a sensitive, imaginative and riveting tale that will leave your heart in pieces, and your mind in turmoil as you come to grips with what happened and why. THE GIRL AND HER REN is an intoxicating, tragic and exhilarating story that will remain in your psyche for a very long time.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one -THE BOY AND HIS RIBBON

Copy supplied for review

Reviewed by Sandy

The fallen papers crunched beneath my boot as I shifted my weight, leaning into her, seeking an answer. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

She flinched, her eyes closing beneath an avalanche of pain.

This hurt.

Everything hurt.

“Della…please.” My calloused thumbs caressed her silky-soft skin, catching on her young perfection with my older imperfection.

Ten years separated us.

Ten years was an eternity when she was a babe and I was a boy, but now…it no longer held such power. I refused to let it because I didn’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t touch her the way I was touching her now.

She laughed quietly, full of torture and tragedy. “I did tell you. In a roundabout way.”

“You didn’t.”

“But I did.” She dared meet my eyes. “I never understood how I could touch you, hug you, kiss you, and you never knew. I didn’t know how I could hide my jealousy when you were with Cassie or later with your one-night stands. I lay awake at night analysing every sentence I said to you, amazed that you never heard what I’d been shouting for longer than I could remember.”

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 19 books currently published, she has hit the bestseller charts twenty-six 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 and Turkish. Audio Books for her entire back-list will be available in 2017.