This book!!! I can’t believe what I just read. Wow! Pepper Winters is the queen of Dark Romance. I was lost from the first page. She makes you want to close your eyes or look away, but you still want the bad guy to get his girl. 

What becomes clearer as the book heads into the cliffhanger (yes it is a dirty word, but I will still read every one of the book Mrs. Winters writes as soon as I can) is that Henri fights with himself every second. He fights for Ily, and in a very small way he starts to see all the other jewels too. This is a hard topic. Trafficking people is horrific. The monsters don’t care about anyone but themselves, and the monsters in this book… they are the worst. In the end, he realizes he’s jumped into an ocean of sharks. His hope for rescue slowly dies. My hope was dying too! 

Mrs. Winters is masterful. This is dark, and I’m not talking dark grey… I’m talking pitch black. Heed the warning readers. Now when you decide you can read it… dive in. Henri & Ily are waiting.