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Heartless Hunter
416 pages
A high-stakes, swoony game of cat-and-mouse where the greatest danger is falling in love with the enemy.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like stepping into a dimly lit ballroom where every glance is a weapon and every dance is a trap. It delivers a deliciously tense, propulsive experience built entirely around the electric friction of mutual deception. The atmosphere is thick with cloak-and-dagger suspense, balancing the grim reality of a ruthless regime with the breathless, swoony indulgence of a classic enemies-to-lovers romance. The prose is accessible and emotionally charged, keeping the pages turning as the emotional stakes ratchet higher than the political ones. It is a perfect fit for readers who devour stories of forbidden attraction, secret identities, and the delicious agony of falling for the exact person who is sworn to destroy you.
- Mood
- suspenseful
- swoony
- atmospheric
- cloak-and-dagger
- Tone
- tense
- romantic
- dramatic
- earnest
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- forbidden attraction · the burden of secrets · enemies to lovers · loyalty versus love · systemic oppression
- The writing
- Accessible and emotionally charged, prioritizing internal tension and romantic chemistry over dense worldbuilding.
- The arc
- Moves from guarded deception and mutual suspicion to an intense, vulnerable, and dangerous romantic entanglement.
- Who it's for
- Readers who live for high-stakes YA fantasy romance, secret identity angst, and the delicious tension of the enemies-to-lovers trope.
Content notes
- violence
- blood
- persecution
- execution
About the book
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?
Description from Open Library.
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