“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?” - taken from Goodreads.
In this gender-swapping take of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Rune Winters depicts herself as a boring socialite to everyone while concealing her true identity. Masquerading as the Crimson Moth, Rune is determined to save every witch she can after sacrificing her own grandmother to save her own life. When she fails to rescue the one witch she promised her grandmother she would save, Rune decides that her best course of action to find the necessary information is to “court” Gideon Sharpe, her best friend’s older brother and a witch hunter, Using each other to in an attempt in uncover elusive information, Rune and Gideon soon turn from enemies to lovers while trying to glean information from one another. With feelings in the way, the ending is a jaw dropping, high stakes reveal to set up the next book in the series.
A great series starter for fans of Shelby Mahone's Serpent and Dove trilogy.
Book two is not yet published.
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