Heartless Hunter
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?
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Rune is a young woman who hunts witches by night and saves them by day. The hunter she most wants to keep at arm's length, Gideon, decides to court her in public. He has reasons of his own to be close.
Heartless Hunter was written by Kristen Ciccarelli and published in 2024. It is the first book in the Crimson Moth duology, a romantasy with a witch-hunter premise.
Heartless Hunter contains some explicit on-page scenes, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is enemy-witch and witch-hunter slow-burn.
Heartless Hunter contains some explicit on-page scenes, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is enemy-witch and witch-hunter slow-burn.
Heartless Hunter is 410 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Heartless Hunter takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
Heartless Hunter is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
Heartless Hunter is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.