Girls Behind The Books: Crown of lies

Title: Crown of lies

Author: Pepper Winters

Genre: Dark Romance

Release Date: January 31

Synopsis

“I met the man I wanted. But then he vanished, and a new man claimed me instead. My father approved, my colleagues congratulated, and behind closed doors, I was bedded by a stranger.”

Noelle Charlston lives a fairy-tale life: a doting father, a powerful job, and a future blessed with financial security.

However, two meetings with two men changes her happy existence forever. First, she meets the man who makes her heart sing. Three years later, she meets the man who makes her blood quiver.

Broken-hearted from a teenage romance, Noelle’s freedom is no longer hers. It belongs to the stranger her father believes is her perfect match. The stranger who pulls his lies over everyone he touches.

Including her.

Seduced and manipulated, Noelle gives into the mysterious Penn Everett. The lies he spins, the truth he hides, the mystery he weaves—it’s all enough to slowly erode the woman she is and turn her into something else.

Until her past collides with her present.

And it’s her turn to lie.

To everyone…including herself.

Review

Trust is something hard to give to any person who is a part of your life. You can trust your family, your friends and your boyfriend / girlfriend etc. but what happens if they betray you? Betrayal kills everything inside you and it makes hard to forgive things that they have done to you. This is what happened to little Noelle (Button Elle). Since childhood she was forced to mature by the circumstances. When she turns nineteen years her hormones made her to escape from her crystal tower to experience what real life is but all turns really bad. However every dark tunnel has a light at the end. Nameless came to her rescue. He saved her life but circumstances separated them. Elle experienced what is called attraction at first sight and she forced herself to forget Nameless and leave him in the past.

“Love is a small price to pay”

Sometime later she became a successful business woman who rules her family company. Her father tried to match her with any man he approved and his best friend’s son seemed to be perfect for her until she met Penn Everett who will twist her world. This cocky man is going to remind her of someone from her past.

“He was pure, one-hundred percent male, and he watched me as if I was a woman who’d already sacrificed herself on his ego temple, and he was about to dine an her soul”

She will be hunted and seduced by Mr. Everett who seems to understand her feelings and desires. Not everything will be hearts and flowers. Elle will play with fire and she will be burnt. She will discover of what she is capable to do. To the world Noelle seems to be the typical spoiled girl in front of her family business but they are wrong. She is a strong and beautiful woman who has dreams and she works hard to fulfil them and of course she has desires (like all women) which will be filled by Penn Everett.

“If I was playing something, are you intrigued enough to learn the rules?”

At some point she feels that Penn is hypnotizing her. Chasing her. Calling her. He will corrupt her world. At the end she will learn that she is surrounded by manipulators including someone she trusts. Betrayal will poison herself.

“People with lies could never make friends. But people with trust could never make enemies”

ARC courtesy of author in exchange for an honest review

Opinion

This is the third time I read Pepper Winters books and she never disappointed me. Crown of lies is a mind-blowing book. The main characters are really complex and well developed. From the first pages I felt like I was an outside spectator of Elle’s life. Someone could say that people with a solved life are always spoiled but they really know nothing about.

I had a mixture of feelings while reading this book. I went from calmness to rage, from happiness to sadness. I absolutely loved the story and I can’t wait to read more about Elle and Penn. The attraction and sexual tension between them is explosive. Pepper did it again. She really knows how to capture your attention from the first pages of every book she has written. I highly recommend you this book. It’s a must read that you won’t want to miss it. It’s about trust, betrayal and attraction and not everything is as it seems.

I have two theories about what will happen in the second book of the Truth & Lies duet but I will keep them until the release of it. I’m craving for more.

Rate: 5 stars

Buy Links

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About the Author

Pepper Winters is a NYT and USA Today International Bestseller. She wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex... her books have sex.

She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends. She's also honoured to wear the IndieReader Badge for being a Top 10 Indie Bestsellers, best BDSM series voted by the SmutClub, and recently signed a two book deal with Grand Central. Her books are currently being translated into numerous languages and will be in bookstores in the near future.

Her Dark Romance books include:

Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark #1)

Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark #2)

Twisted Together (Monsters in the Dark #3)

Debt Inheritance (Indebted #1)

Her Grey Romance books include:

Destroyed

Upcoming releases are:

First Debt (Indebted Series #2)

Ruin & Rule (Pure Corruption MC)

Je Suis a Toi (Monsters in the Dark Novella)

Forbidden Flaws (Standalone Erotic Romance)