A steamy game of cat and mouse between witch and witch-hunter, played out against a backdrop of opulence, secrets, and bloody history.
On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is.
Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch hunters off her scent and gain the intel she desperately needs by courting the handsome Gideon Sharpe – a notorious and unforgiving witch hunter loyal to the revolution – who she can’t help but find herself falling for.
Gideon loathes the decadence and superficiality Rune represents, but when he learns the Crimson Moth has been using Rune’s merchant ships to smuggle renegade witches out of the republic, he inserts himself into her social circles by pretending to court her right back. He soon realizes that beneath her beauty and shallow façade, is someone fiercely intelligent and tender who feels like his perfect match. Except, what if she’s the very villain he’s been hunting?
Kristen Ciccarelli’s Heartless Hunter is the thrilling start to a romantic fantasy duology where the only thing more treacherous than being a witch…is falling in love.
But I didn’t want to forget that evil lurks where we least expect it.”
Heartless Hunter absolutely stole my heart, my emotions, and my awe. I could not put this book down for a second once I started. This book deserves SO much more hype because it gripped me with emotions the entire time.
Rune, our little witch. Everything she does is purely for those she loves and the cause she truly believes in. I could not help but stand behind her and fight with her. On the other side, Gideon, oh Gideon… you brute you. I love everything he stands for. He’s so conflicted, yet always sticks to his morals and I have to admire him for that.
“For now, their roles had reversed. Rune was the predator; he was the prey. And she was closing in on him.”
Also…. witch and which hunter who “pretend” to date, try to play each other, but then love bests both of them. Hellllooooo…. I eat this stuff for breakfast and wanted eighteen bowls of it. Also, the last 20% of this book is a doozy. My heart was all over the place. However, Heartless Hunter was just everything. I cannot wait for book two. I need all the damage that Kristen created fixed… I hope.
Thank you for Netgalley & St. Martin’s Press for an eARC of the book.
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