Serpent & Dove (2019)
Serpent & Dove is a 2019 young adult fiction book written by Shelby Mahurin.
Louise le Blanc walked away from her coven two years ago and has survived on stolen coins in the city of Cesarine, where the Church burns witches like her on sight. Reid Diggory hunts them, sworn to a single unbending creed. A reckless scheme throws the two together and binds them, against everything they believe, in marriage. Shelby Mahurin builds a world of hidden magic, smoke, and gallows, then sets a sharp-tongued witch and a devout huntsman loose inside it. The heat between them runs straight against the fear that either one could be the death of the other.
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What is Serpent & Dove about?
Louise le Blanc walked away from her coven two years ago and has survived on stolen coins in the city of Cesarine, where the Church burns witches like her on sight. Reid Diggory hunts them, sworn to a single unbending creed. A reckless scheme throws the two together and binds them, against everything they believe, in marriage. Shelby Mahurin builds a world of hidden magic, smoke, and gallows, then sets a sharp-tongued witch and a devout huntsman loose inside it. The heat between them runs straight against the fear that either one could be the death of the other.
When was Serpent & Dove published?
Serpent & Dove was published on 3 September 2019.
Who made Serpent & Dove?
Serpent & Dove was written by Shelby Mahurin.
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A few thoughts on Serpent & Dove
Fans of two people bound by duty and desire should try Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where a slayer and a vampire keep falling for the thing they are sworn to fight. For the same morally gray world of Witches, curses, and hard bargains, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt trades candlelit ballrooms for a mud-soaked continent of monster hunters.
Enemies forced into marriage who fall for each other anyway
Louise and Reid are bound together by a reckless scheme, a witch and a witch-hunter thrown into a marriage neither one chose. Throne of Glass and The Cruel Prince pair a fierce heroine with a man sworn to despise her, Outlander builds the same charge inside an arranged marriage between strangers, and A Court of Thorns and Roses and Vampire Academy trade that same friction for something neither one wanted.
Witch hunters and the wars fought over hidden magic
Reid was raised to hunt witches for a Church that treats magic as a capital crime. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Shadowhunters put their own hunters on the front line of a hidden supernatural war, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt casts you as a witcher feared for that same reason, and Shadow and Bone hunts down a magic its empire would rather burn out.
Supernatural romance where loving them could get you killed
Louise and Reid's romance runs on the same current as these: get close to the wrong person and it costs everything. Twilight and its sequel New Moon build a human-and-vampire bond the world keeps trying to break, Beautiful Creatures pairs a small-town boy with a girl whose magic marks her as dangerous, and Fallen carries a forbidden love with real teeth behind it.