First Debt

Nila Weaver belongs to Jethro Hawk, whatever she says to the contrary. Her family owes a debt set down in an agreement more than six hundred years old, and that agreement has left her taken from her life and bound to him with no clear way out.

Jethro's patience is wearing thin. The inheritance that brought Nila to him tests him, challenges him and surprises him, and in ways he does not welcome. He has put no leash on her, yet he believes he has found a means of tying her to him for good.

His proposal comes as a wager. If he wins, Nila agrees of her own will to sign the debt agreement and a second contract that makes him her master until she dies. If she holds out, she keeps the chance of refusing him. Nila insists he will never own her.

This is a dark romance and the second book in its series. The relationship is one of captor and captive, built on obligation, power and defiance, and the tone is dark and tense. Readers who want to start from the beginning should read the first book first, since this one continues a story already under way.

The debts keep growing, and payment is waiting to be collected.