Cover of To Hunt a Demon King

To Hunt a Demon King

Madeleine Eliot

King and Coven #1

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Little Red runs from her coven — straight into the arms of the Demon King she's meant to hunt.

Description

Little Red Riding Hood meets spicy romantasy in this witchy retelling of a classic fairy tale. Elara has only one goal in her life: to convince her mother to treat her like the fully grown witch she is and let her attend a Coven meeting. But on her twenty-fifth birthday, Elara discovers that her mother had good reasons for keeping her away from the Coven and her grandmother, its unfeeling Crone.Now forced to run for her life to hide a magic she shouldn’t possess, Elara is told to find the wicked Demon King and claim his protection. But when she runs into a handsome hunter and his wolf in the forest, her journey takes on a dimension she never expected. Tropes include:Reluctant allies to loversOnly one bedOnly one horseForced proximityMistaken identities

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