Download or read book RoseBlood written by A. G. Howard and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the Splintered series, a talented young opera singer enrolls in a French performing arts school shrouded in mystery. Rune has a mysterious affliction that’s linked to her musical talent. Her mother believes creative direction will help, so she sends Rune to a French arts conservatory rumored to have inspired The Phantom of the Opera. When Rune begins to develop a friendship with the elusive Thorn, she realizes that with him, she feels cured. But as their love grows, Thorn is faced with an impossible choice: save Rune or protect the phantom haunting RoseBlood, the only father he’s ever known. Fans of Daughter of Smoke & Bone and the Splintered series will adore this retelling of one of the most famous stories of all time. Praise for RoseBlood “The Phantom of the Opera is reborn in this supernatural tale of music, passions, and love. . . . A rich, atmospheric story that readers will be hard-pressed to put down.” —Kirkus Reviews “Rune is a multifaceted, artistic character whose actions and reactions feel believably young adult as she confronts questions about family secrets and heredity. This is an accomplished undertaking. . . . VERDICT A good purchase for paranormal romance collections, and the connections to a classic work of literature add appeal.” —School Library Journal

Download or read book Stain written by A. G. Howard and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A princess must win back her kingdom, save a prince, and restore peace in this fantasy by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Splintered series. After Lyra—a princess incapable of speech or sound—is cast out of her kingdom of daylight by her wicked aunt, a witch saves her life, steals her memories, and raises her in an enchanted forest…disguised as a boy known only as Stain. Meanwhile, in Lyra’s rival kingdom, the prince of thorns and night is dying, and the only way for him to break his curse is to wed the princess of daylight—for she is his true equal. As Lyra finds her way back to her identity, an imposter princess prepares to steal her betrothed prince and her crown. To win back her kingdom, save the prince, and make peace with the land of the night, Lyra must be loud enough to be heard without a voice, and strong enough to pass a series of tests—ultimately proving she’s everything a traditional princess is not. “A decadent fantasy anchored in childhood delights with vibrantly detailed writing and brilliantly theatrical subplots.” —Kirkus Reviews “[A] reimagining of “The Princess and the Pea” . . . An emotionally complex tale of fate, inner beauty, and found family that illustrates the strength of love born from friendship.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Roseblood written by Paul Doherty and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1455, and as war approaches, each must choose their allegiance... Master historian Paul Doherty brings to life the brutal world of London in 1455 as he tells the epic story of the advent of the Wars of the Roses. Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and Susanna Gregory. 'Deliciously suspenseful, gorgeously written and atmospheric' -Historical Novels Review England, 1455: a kingdom on the brink of civil war. The Red Rose: King Henry of Lancaster's days are numbered. Deemed unfit for rule, even by his own mother, he surely cannot last on the throne for long. Simon Roseblood - London lord, taverner and alderman - is one of few loyal servants left to fight his cause. The White Rose: Ruthless Richard of York has his eye firmly set on the crown - and plenty of powerful allies who will do anything to help him win it. Henchman Amadeus Sevigny makes no bones about enforcing his own authority and asserting law and order at York's command. When Roseblood is summoned by Sevigny to stand trial for a crime he knows he didn't commit, their paths cross in ways that alter them both for ever. And as the Wars of the Roses looms, an even greater foe is poised to rock the foundations of England, and wreak horror in a hotbed of political unrest. What readers are saying about Roseblood: 'Paul Doherty is a synonym for quality and entertainment' 'A compelling tale of historical fiction that exudes accuracy and detail' 'The book is as entertaining as it is fascinating [and] satisfying as intricate plots and plans are revealed. The author takes the reader deep into this world of squalor and colour, stench and gore, death and deception, introducing characters whose strengths and weaknesses keep the tale alive and compelling'

Download or read book Blood Rose written by William Heffernan and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1992 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former New York City detective Paul Devlin must find a maniac killer who mutilates young women, leaving a withered rose in the place of their heart--before the woman he loves falls victim to the murder's knife.

Download or read book The Secret City written by C.J. Daugherty and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Da Vinci s Tiger written by L. M. Elliott and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of rich and vivid historical novels like Girl with a Pearl Earring and Code Name Verity, Laura Malone Elliott delivers the stunning tale of real-life Renaissance woman Ginevra de' Benci, the inspiration for one of Leonardo da Vinci's earliest masterpieces. The young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, Ginevra longs to share her poetry and participate in the artistic ferment of Renaissance Florence but is trapped in an arranged marriage in a society dictated by men. The arrival of the charismatic Venetian ambassador, Bernardo Bembo, introduces Ginevra to a dazzling circle of patrons, artists, and philosophers. Bembo chooses Ginevra as his Platonic muse and commissions a portrait of her by a young Leonardo da Vinci. Posing for the brilliant painter inspires an intimate connection between them, one Ginevra only begins to understand. In a rich and vivid world of exquisite art with a dangerous underbelly of deadly political feuds, Ginevra faces many challenges to discover her voice and artistic companionship—and to find love.

Download or read book Vampire s Kiss written by Atlas Rose and published by Atlas Rose. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampire's Kiss is dark, steamy and captivating free first in the series Vampire reverse harem romance and the first book in the 'Mafia Monster' world. Guaranteed happy ever after. Dive in today! Immortals rule the night in my world. They’re dangerous, deadly and occupy the darker side of our city across the river. Now I’m standing face to face with the most dangerous of their kind, the leader of the Crown City blood-thirsty hunters, a Vampire called Elithien. A creature my father is about to make an ally. My ally... My father, the head of the most dangerous Mafia families in Crown City is dying. And he thinks these savage monsters will somehow protect me when he’s gone. Elithien hunts me in the dead of the night, and corners me in a dark alley. He captures my wrists, pressing them against the wall over my head. He kisses me, whispering he wants to tell me the truth about my bloodline. Only it’s a truth I don’t want to believe. A truth that will unravel everything I know. But running from him won’t save me. Nothing will… Because these monsters like the chase.

Download or read book Red Rose Blood written by Michael Kudo and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I don't like to be called an Assassin, I prefer the term problem solver." My name's Alex. I'm an average guy. I kill people for a living. But don't judge me. I don't take jobs on just anybody though. I only kill the really annoying people, like cheaters or abusers. So if you think about it, I'm actually doing God's work-okay, maybe that's stretching things a bit. Other than the whole committing murder and trying to get away with it thing, my life is simple. Well... except for the fact I'm in love with a fellow assassin who happens to be my mentor. I also have to make sure I'm careful when I'm on the job because if I ever fail a hit, I'll be considered a "liability" and be executed promptly. Oh, and there's a small chance someone in the organization is trying to have me killed. But I'll figure that out, eventually. Did I mention I'm gay? Okay, maybe my life isn't so simple.

Download or read book Ruby in the Rough written by Emily Shore and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Ghetto, girls are the new currency. For four years, Ruby has escaped the gangs and sweepers hunting her. Until now... For the past four years, Ruby has lived in what was once a sprawling city of business and commerce. Now, it is the Ghetto; its main commerce exists in the form of females. Whether breeders, laborers, gang girls, or sex slaves, the Ghetto features any and every service with the Hotel as its central area of business. Thanks to her roof-topping skills and street smarts, which have made her impossible to catch, Ruby has made the Ghetto's most-wanted list. Fortunately, she has one ally: a young man named Ink, the one man determined not to sell her. Unlike Ruby, Ink has no desire to leave the Ghetto, but she owes him a life debt and is trapped as much by her honor as by the soldiers patrolling the only exits out of the city. Whether scavenging for food or holing up in an abandoned clock tower, Ruby and Ink remain unlikely partners until their home in an abandoned train yard is discovered. While Ink escapes, Ruby is captured by the roughest gang in the Ghetto. All too soon, Ruby learns she is bound for the Hotel where she will be used up piece by piece until there is nothing left. Unless she can escape and get the target off her back once and for all. A haunting tale with themes of modern day slavery, Ruby in the Rough is certain to keep readers turning pages and ready to rise up with its call to action.

Download or read book The Wisdom of Blood written by A. G. Howard and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gaslit gothic atmosphere of a Victorian penny dreadful meets the dangerous romance of Hades and Persephone in A.G. Howard's newest lush adult vampire fantasy fraught with passion, horror, and mystery.

Download or read book Malik s Tribe The Journal Of Truth written by Wael Bolbol and published by Wael Bolbol. This book was released on 2023-05-07 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It seems that the Satanists have won, doesn't it? Everything has been turned upside down. The world is frolicking within the death throes of the new age. It's an era of depravity, insolence, and evaporated dreams that have turned into nightmares. The Godless gorge themselves on an unwary comatose public, infatuated with reckless and vain desires, the war has begun. The 7 realms have been infiltrated by demonic generals and Satanic soldiers. All facets of life have been confiscated. Economies, traditions, entertainment, and teaching institutions have been taken over and mutated into something sinister and without mercy. Cities that were once the pearls of the old world have become nothing but ruins of smoke, poverty, and dilapidated infrastructures. Nothing was the same after Babylonia the Great waged a nuclear war on it's rivals.....and even before the Greatest War Waged, the world showed signs of madness and confusion. The GWW was mentioned by the religious scholars of the old world, Armageddon or Malhama Al Kubra, was prophesied by messengers of GOD in periods of time forgotten and lost. Only a few remained vigilant and faithful towards GOD, the balance of the world fell into the clutches of a Satanic regime determined to destroy the essential core of man. Within these perilous times the emergence of the Anti-Christ took center stage. The One-Eyed Chief deceiver became the prominent influencer for the detrimentally lost. The engine of evil. The demonic forces beckoned this diabolical leader's arrival......and when he arrived he unleashed his baggages of debauchery and hatred towards humans. The world was in complete chaos and division..." Although, the Light of the Ineffable can never be extinguished, this is a spiritual law. The demonic insurgence couldn't anticipate the resistance that took place. The psychological nets of stupidity and vanity were supposed to suppress the citizens of the 7 realms...but somehow a band of good humans broke through the indoctrination programs of Babylonia the Great. Some said that they were led by Angels. Some rumors suggested that they were the literal moving hand of GOD. Whatever the gossip, the Satanic generals couldn't have fathomed that there would be a counter force so efficient and surgical in their executions. This is a story of perseverance and an example of the human potential when unity is the defining factor.

Download or read book Rose Blood written by Jarrad Dickson and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionRose Blood: A Psychosis Induced Fantasy is sourced from the "literary" structures of psychosis, and develops them with the use of the imagination. It is the only one or one of the few of its kind, that of being wrought from mental illness, and not about mental illness. It is about an alternate reality created by the author, whose source is Pandora, and she is a schizophrenic and Jarrad turns into God as he taps into this source and gains powers such as fire hair, space time continuum plane shifts, albino skin, etc that allow him to exist in outer space. The idea is that Mankind needs organic technology of their own bodies as well as outer body technology to be outer space creatures. It posits a white space universe, with black stars. It is a fantasy novel, though short, and the main characters are Pandora, Jarrad Dickson and a mysterious woman named Rose Blood. It has original settings and striking visual elements, and is a strange, dark fantasy and one of its kind in the very popular literary genre of Fantasy. About the AuthorJarrad Dickson was born in 1986 in Auckland New Zealand and grew up in Hahei, and was educated at Dilworth School. He then went to the University of Auckland to study a BA. Though happy as a child, in his teenage years he had an unbelievable torment of depression. After befriending a girl who killed herself he descended into alcoholism and this made him very delusional, and after awhile his brain went haywire and had a tormenting and very frightening psychotic breakdown which lasted two months. He saw his entire life pass before his eyes, but he saw himself be raped, abducted, eaten and saw his principle as an alien from Pluto who was wearing a body suit. After that, he thought he was suing Dilworth, who have millions of dollars of assets, and drew castles he would have at their properties. He frequently overdosed to shorten the time till he got the money. This delusion caused a psychotic relapse as well as using cannabis, and he relapsed the year after he had a psychotic breakdown. On that day, he jumped over James Dilworth's grave in Symonds Street cemetery thinking he would teleport into another dimension where Lily Cole was an albino goddess and was marrying him. He also knows four languages.

Download or read book Notes To Self written by Christopher Alan Broadstone and published by BCP/Texas POĒtrope. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love POE, BARKER and THE TWILIGHT ZONE, you'll love “NOTES-TO-SELF”! “Notes-To-Self: Accumulated Thoughts, Transferred Into Word Form” is a brand new version of an historical collection of works that comprises Christopher Alan Broadstone's long out-of-print, handmade ‘About 9 Times’ fan-book titled “Beyond Blue Sky, Nothing” (July 1988), which included an amalgam of 92 early poems (many of them ‘About 9 Times’ lyrics), along with two early short stories, “Again Once More” and “The Deformity”. New to this edition are the very early, never before published tales “Grandma” and the experimental “The Dying Man: A Comedy Of Eschatology”, along with the unfinished incarnation tale “Homo Amphibious Burlesque”, which plays prominently in the feature film “Human No More” (2020). Spearheading this collection is the acclaimed, but rare, demonic serial-killer thriller “Note-To-Self”, previously featured in the “Journals Of Horror: Found Fiction” anthology (2014, out-of-print), and now updated with additional material. Also included is the very rare (as yet unproduced) screenplay for the short film “Roseblood”, based on Broadstone's controversial Christian horror story of the same name, first published in “Suicide The Hard Way: And Other Tales From The Innerzone”. Bringing this enhanced collection into perspective, and linking Broadstone's earliest stories to his most current, is “Human No More” producer Matthew Sanderson, who also edited Broadstone’s “Suicide The Hard Way” and “A Catch In Time”. Sanderson’s comprehensive and fascinating essay “Truth & Tragedy: God Cakes Won’t Help You In Hell” completes “Notes-To-Self” with brand new perspective. Last but not least, as with the original “Beyond Blue Sky, Nothing” fan-book, the ending section is comprised of all 92 of C.A. Broadstone’s poetry and lyrics, although now updated with an additional 26 entries––including two lost poems, “Abattoir” and “The Bloody Dead”, which were recently discovered sandwiched between old printouts of the stories “Grandma” and “The Dying Man”. If you love Christopher Alan Broadstone's philosophical and macabre books and films, as well as his lyrics for the jazz/punk/new-wave band ‘About 9 Times’ and his grunge band ‘The Judas Engine’, you'll want to see where it all began. And where it all has come to. "With razor-sharp precision, “Note-To-Self” explores a world of unhealed emotional scars and inescapable body horror. Broadstone captures the dislocation of being a stranger in your own skin, alongside the existential curiosity of commingling human reality with the dark void of the unknown." –– Jonny Numb, Crash Palace Productions “As our [“Note-To-Self”] killer embarks on a twisted quest, his journey and mindset are the elements that unnerve us. Whether in the bosom of a benign tribe of Bedouins, or sojourning through a chaotic Cairo, Mr. Broadstone ensures that we the reader will find no comfort, or reprieve from horror.” –– Christopher Zisi, Zisi Emporium For B-Movies

Download or read book A Catch In Time A Macabre Novella Short Stories written by Christopher Alan Broadstone and published by BCP/Texas POĒtrope. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love POE, BARKER and THE TWILIGHT ZONE, you'll love “A CATCH IN TIME“! "A CATCH IN TIME grew so vividly and beautifully absurd…I could not take my eyes off the book for long…C. A. Broadstone has easily convinced me that his writing style is indeed brilliant." –– Oliver Lippert, The Huffington Post San Antonio Del Tequendama Cundinamarca, Colombia November 1938 ‘My front door is broken, bleeding guts of shadows...’ ‘...how do I find new skin...’ ‘...among my desolate bones...’ “But this is nothing, right?” whispered Tatiana. “I’m still alive.” These were her abstract thoughts as she stared like a saucer-eyed cat confronting a deluge––stared into her emerald green eyes in the large, heart-shaped crest-mirror hanging above the vanity table in her bedroom suite at Hotel “Bochica”, Salto del Tequendama. Tatiana Marita Ospina has run away from her forced marriage to an aristocratic philanderer, and sought sanctuary at “Bochica”, a retreat for the rich and famous. The last thing she expected, however, was to discover a convoy of Nazi SS soldiers arriving at the hotel under cover of night, led by Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. In the darkest hours of the morning, Tatiana’s sleep is disrupted by strange, ghostly music and voices, which grip her imagination and compel her to explore the lower levels of “Bochica”, where she stumbles onto the true secret the hotel has been hiding: the occult mystery behind the rising Axis powers. Openly confronted by this insurmountable horror, she must decide if she can make the sacrifice necessary to accept her role in the secret history of World War II. But will it be destiny or damnation for Tatiana Marita Ospina, as well as for the rest of the world? Weaving together psychological horror and alternative history with theater of the absurd, A CATCH IN TIME marks the triumphant and genre-defying return of dark fantasist Christopher Alan Broadstone following last year’s SUICIDE THE HARD WAY: AND OTHER TALES OF THE INNERZONE. A CATCH IN TIME also includes two short stories from SUICIDE THE HARD WAY––SMILEYS' GRAVE and ROSEBLOOD––and also "CHAPTER 19" from the novel PUZZLEMAN. SMILEYS' GRAVE Poet Aaron Shelley Wanton has become a lost soul among artists. He's alone, miserable, broke and––worst of all––he's no longer writing. His inability to string together any words-of-worth is driving him closer and closer toward a cliff-edge of madness. Somehow he must reconnect with his muse, the Moon, who has abandoned him. Heartbroken, he once again finds himself lying among the grim stones of Mulls Cemetery, staring up at the lunar orb through the tangle of trees. On this night, however, his burning desire for the Moon's inspiration will invoke far more than he ever bargained for. ROSEBLOOD "It's every place I look." The voices agreed. The voices also intoned that today would bring something special. With a dozen roses in hand, Andre––a filthy, bearded flower-seller wearing a prairie coat and ragged cowboy hat––stepped up to the curb before him. There was a mess of merging cars inching down the frontage road, exiting from Interstate 30 into Garland, Texas. Once again the voices spoke to Andre, insisting that somewhere in this herd of vehicles there would be a sacred man. One who would nod his head yes, roll down his window, and ask how much for a rose––a blossom of God! “A great man,” muttered Andre, studying the traffic. "A saint." Evening was approaching, and Andre knew it was going to spiral into a very glorious night. PUZZLEMAN: A Macabre Thriller Fall into a world of Grumemonsters, where no one is sane down a drain, and down a drain no one is sane. Follow Amanda Zimmerman, Professor John Rainbow, Jeannette Orfèvre, Ben Henfy, and The Legless Man, all seeking retribution and escape from a horror worse than death. They are five disparate lives meticulously woven together over time to play a special part in the Puzzleman’s twisted vision of eternal life. Welcome to truth and eternity. Welcome to the Pipeworld.

Download or read book Suicide The Hard Way And Other Tales From The Innerzone written by Christopher Alan Broadstone and published by BCP/Texas POĒtrope. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love POE, BARKER and THE TWILIGHT ZONE, you'll love "SUICIDE THE HARD WAY"! SUICIDE THE HARD WAY: And Other Tales From The Innerzone –– collects 7 never-before-released stories of the macabre from CHRISTOPHER ALAN BROADSTONE, horror filmmaker (3 DEAD GIRLS!) and novelist (PUZZLEMAN). Each tale lures us down twilight byways instinctively sped-through and discounted by most, but never explored. Within these stories, however, we become lost, meandering onto backstreets and alleyways –– stumbling through the grim reality of introspection that always leads to a terrifying, nihilistic, and often brutal look into the soul: the Innerzone. Continuing this theme, SUICIDE THE HARD WAY also includes Broadstone's 3 screenplays for his award-winning short films, SCREAM FOR ME (Best Short Film: New York City Horror Film Festival), MY SKIN! (Best Horror Short Category: Shriekfest Film Festival [L.A.]), and HUMAN NO MORE (Best Horror Short: The Indie Gathering [O.H.]). These films, anthologized as the DVD 3 DEAD GIRLS! (available on Amazon), are explored in-depth by film critic MATTHEW SANDERSON in his original essay for this printing, titled: MADNESS AND MEANING. To bring even greater insight to Broadstone's filmmaking process, is the production diary kept by reviewer/filmmaker LEE BAILES, while working as Assistant Camera and BTS videographer on the set of HUMAN NO MORE. First published on the website THE RUMOUR MACHINE, it is now available here, titled: THE MAKING OF HNM: How An Englishman Spent His Summer In An L.A. Basement. (Active links to Film Music and Additional Film Info are also included in the Kindle version of this book.) Completing SUICIDE THE HARD WAY is a section compiling 32 of Broadstone's previously unpublished dark, introspective lyrics and poetry, some if which are interpolated into his films, and many others of which are lyrics for music recorded and performed by his heavy grunge/rock band, THE JUDAS ENGINE. (Active links to Downloadable Music are also included in the Kindle version of this book.) SUICIDE THE HARD WAY: And Other Tales From The Innerzone is an ambitious work that chronicles all facets of Christopher Alan Broadstone's creative career: writer, poet/lyricist, musician, and filmmaker. CONTENTS: Preface by Rick Wildridge Foreword by Lee Bailes SHORT STORIES –– Little Jimmy Combat / Hellbound Hillary / Smileys' Grave / On Strike / Suicide The Hard Way / Scream For Me / Roseblood 3 SHORT SCREENPLAYS –– Foreword by Michael Laimo –– Madness And Meaning: A Filmic Essay by Matthew Sanderson –– Screenplay Key –– Scream For Me (Adapted) / My Skin! / Human No More –– The Making of HNM by Lee Bailes –– Kindle edition includes active links throughout to Film Music and Additional Film Info. LYRICS & POETRY –– About The Lyrics & Poetry by C.A. Broadstone –– The Black Cab / Blood & Love / Broken Arm / Can I Kill It / Care And Feeding Of Suspension Bridges / Charlie Asleep / Color Of Flame / Concret. Dirt. / Cut / Dig In / Earth Machine / Endless / Goodbye In The World Again / Heaven Missed / I Am A Wall / In The Moonlight / Killer In A Jar / Little Darkness / Misanthropia / My Skin / My Swim / Never On My Hands / Night Before Never / No Misunderstanding / Scorpion Ocean / Snow / Soul In A Hole / Squirm / Thrush / Tongue / World Scream / Y –– Kindle edition includes active links throughout to Downloadable Music.

Download or read book Rose Blood written by Anita G. Howard and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rune, whose voice has been compared to that of an angel, has a mysterious affliction linked to her talent that leaves her sick and drained at the end of every performance. Convinced creative direction will cure her, her mother ships her off to a French boarding school for the arts, rumored to have a haunted past. Shortly after arriving at RoseBlood conservatory, Rune starts to believe something otherworldly is indeed afoot. The mystery boy she's seen frequenting the graveyard beside the opera house doesn't have any classes at the school, and vanishes almost as quickly as he appears. When Rune begins to develop a secret friendship with the elusive Thorn, who dresses in clothing straight out of the 19th century, she realizes that in his presence she feels cured. Thorn may be falling for Rune, but the phantom haunting RoseBlood wants her for a very specific and dangerous purpose. As their love continues to grow, Thorn is faced with an impossible choice: lead Rune to her destruction, or save her and face the wrath of the phantom, the only father he's ever known.

Download or read book Heartless Hunter written by Kristen Ciccarelli and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A steamy game of cat and mouse between witch and witch-hunter, played out against a backdrop of opulence, secrets, and bloody history. I couldn't look away." - Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Champion of Fate Enemies-to-lovers doesn't get more high stakes than a witch and a witch hunter falling in love in bestselling author Kristen Ciccarelli's latest romantic fantasy. 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 The Crimson Moth duology, a romantic fantasy series where the only thing more treacherous than being a witch...is falling in love. “Enchanting and deeply romantic, Heartless Hunter drew me in with the first sentence and left me breathless by the last. A story that unfolds like a spell, and one that is destined to capture your heart.” - Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals