検索キーワード： "Pepper Winters" 選集・短編小説

For ten years, Kassen has lived alone—hidden in a forgotten mansion tucked away in the woods. If the walls could talk, they would whisper of the horrors and monsters he survived. Of the price he paid to save everyone else but himself. And now all he wants is for death to finally find him. But she finds him instead. She trespasses into his nightmares and wakes up his atrophied heart. The only problem is, he's only ever known hate and violence. He has no idea how to tell her she's the only thing he's ever wanted and the only person who can save him. Instead, he chains her to him.

'Some say the past is in the past. That vengeance will hurt both innocent and guilty. I never believed those lies.' Cleo 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...

'We met in a nightmare. The in-between world where time had no power over reason. We fell in love. We fell hard. But then we woke up. And it was over....' She is a woman divided. Her past, present, and future are as twisted as the lies she's lived for the past eight years. Desperate to get the...