Second Debt

Nila Weaver arrives at this point in the story changed. She began as a naïve seamstress, and she now fights back with whatever lies within reach. Ordinary objects become weapons, and so does sex. She has paid the First Debt and expects to pay more, but she refuses to let the Hawks win.

Jethro Hawk is her chief opponent. Nila tries to play the Hawks at their own game of deceit, and just when she believes she is ahead, she learns she is not. Jethro is a master of duplicity, and she will not let him wear her down any further.

Jethro, in turn, has met more than a worthy adversary in her. She is the woman who could destroy him. The fate of his house rests on his shoulders, and his heart is cold, yet Nila burns too brightly for him to put out.

This is the third book in a series, so it carries on from the earlier volumes. It is a dark romance built on a contest of wills between two people who sit on the line between hatred and love, and between fear and respect. Expect a tense, adversarial dynamic in which each side is trying to outmaneuver the other.