Book Description
In a land of three warring kingdoms, a centaur huntsman and a warrior priestess might be the only hope for peace. If the two enemies don’t kill each other first, they might even find love.
Seira of Blackstone has fought in many border skirmishes against the centaurs of the lowlands, but when she comes upon a massacre, it’s soon apparent the centaur and human dead weren’t fighting each other. They were fighting together against a third, unknown foe.
Toryn, a centaur huntsman, is following the trail of a group of soul-mages when he encounters Seira, the most exquisite female he’s ever beheld. She’s majestic, battle-hardened, strong-willed, and her sharp tongue fires his blood more than any other female he’s ever met.
While Seira’s natural instinct is to kill the horseman, she’s also swift to see they have a better chance of success if they work together. But there is more danger than just an unknown enemy. As they come to depend on each other, Seira secretly admits she has growing feelings for her centaur partner.
That’s a problem. As a warrior-priestess of the Moon Goddess, Seira has sworn vows of obedience, loyalty, and chastity in exchange for her magic. As such, her body, heart, and soul can never be shared with another. Not even a noble centaur with equal parts desire and tender longing in his eyes.
But centaurs are renowned for their stubborn natures, and Toryn plans to claim Seira’s heart even if he risks having the warrior-priestess bury one of her blades in his chest for his troubles.
A fantasy romance.
Author’s Note: The Huntress vs Huntsman world is a fantasy romance series. If romance of the fantasy variety isn’t your thing, avoid like the plague.
My Review
Seira and Toryn have been hunting and avoiding each other for years and while they can appreciate each other, neither really wants to give up their lives in order to settle down. So they keep playing games with each other by raiding each others camp and stealing small things from each other. Toryn is a Centaur and Seira is a witch/warrior priestess.
Seira's family expects her to capture or be captured by Toryn or another Centaur so she can have children and carry on the traditions on her people. Toryn's people also expect him to capture a woman and bring her back to the clan in order to carry on their traditions and have children. Which ever one captures the other means the one captured has to give up their way of life and live with the other's people. Neither want to do that even though this is the way it's always been done for both of their people. So they play these games in the mean time until one of them gives in.
Toryn is attracted to Seira but doesn't have the heart to capture her and bring her back to his clan and Seira feels the same way about him. But things change when an old foe comes forward and puts both of their peoples in danger. Now they have to find a way to work together all the while stopping each others people from capturing the other and making them submit to the traditions of the clans.
In order for this to work they have to trust each other, which isn't easy but there's no other way to make sure they can defeat the ones who have come to kill them all.
Watching these two come to grips with how much they actually like each other while they are out hunting a foe who is coming to kill both of their peoples, was a lot of fun. The ending was so great and I loved how they decided they were going to start new traditions and not give in to what everyone else wanted. This was such a fun read. The banter between these two just made their interactions so much more fun.
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.
