With Hearts of Flame (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Dark Academia Romantasy Novel of Vampires and Dragons Featuring Stenciled Edges and Illustrated Endpapers (Bloodwing Academy, 4)
Briar Boleyn
Hunted by the Dragon Shifter
by Courtney Whims
About this book
A lot of factors make waking up naked in a puddle of blood worse.
Such as not remembering if it’s your blood or someone else’s.
Lyra and Marcella both wake up this way—unable to remember who they are and where they are.
Surrounded by dragon artwork in a gilded castle, they find themselves competing with twenty-eight other women for the chance at marrying Cyrus—the Dragon Land's king. A man whose white eyes are haunting enough to chill the blood in their veins. Despite his otherworldly beauty, there’s a way his figure glides within the shadows. Hinting of something sinister…and an eons-old secret.
The group of women begin to dwindle as they enter deadly trials set to test their compatibility with Cyrus. While it should be a comfort to know they’re closing in on a potential engagement, Lyra and Marcella notice something odd. Women are beginning to disappear outside of the trials. And no one knows why. As time goes on, their out-of-sync reflections and shifting shadows might not just be a hallucination.
They’re being hunted.
Rediscovering their pasts may be the key to not only finding love, but surviving. Or it could be the final nail in their coffins. Because secrets never die—they’re just buried in a grave.
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Hunt or be hunted…
Immortal Hunters is a collection of dark romantasy standalones—each novel can be read in any order, but once the hunt begins, it won’t stop.
Hunted by the Demon’s Vow by A.N. Caudle
Hunted by the Dragon Shifter by Courtney Whims
Hunted by the Dead King by Mallory Benjamin
Hunted by the Fae Duke by Kris K. Haines
Hunted by the Fae King’s Shadow by Shaylin Gandhi
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
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Reader Reviews
May 7, 2026
3.75 (very very good) Update: I HIGHLY recommend reading the Arterian series books 1-2 first, as doing so made the end if this less frustrating. I will say I really liked it and it was a great read, up until the end. I sat on this overnight and I have to knock a little off the rating for the ending as this is supposed to be able to be read as a standalone and yet the ending does not feel like it to me. But, I really did enjoy the book otherwise and plan to read the connected series. I would...
May 7, 2026
Courtney has done it again!! I absolutely adore her Arterian series, so I was ecstatic to learn there would be a prequel. I was even more excited to be selected to receive an ARC of the book and it lived up to my expectations and even exceeded them. I will say, just because this is a prequel doesn't mean you have to read the other two books first - Of Flames and Fallacies + Of Blood and Banes + Of Fire and Fates [release date TBA]. I have read both, but there is nothing in Hunted that would be...
May 8, 2026
Hunted by the Dragon Shifter by Courtney Whims Immortal Hunters series book 2 (non-connected standalones) Two POVs - the two FMCs of the book (and a few from MMC), slow burn, dangerous marriage trials, dragon shifter, love triangle, memory loss (on purpose), mystery and so many secrets, unlikely friendship Lyra wakes up with no memories and is told she is to participate in marriage trials to win the hand of the king. But supposedly she agreed to this and signed contracts before her memories...
May 7, 2026
Thank you Courtney Whims, for allowing me to ARC read Hunted by the Dragon Shifter. I was so excited to get into this book after reading OFAF and OBAB. Absolutely obsessed with the first two books in the Arterian series! HBTDS is a prequel to OFAF, to be read after OBAB. Going into this book I wasn't expecting to love it as much as the first two books, with it being a prequel. I typically enjoy the main books in the series more than the prequels and novellas. From the start HBTDS had me so...
May 14, 2026
HOLY EASTER EGGS!! 👀 ✍️ 📝 Courtney Whims is the Taylor Swift of authors! Let it be known!!! The amount of Easter eggs in the story had me writing notes, annotating and flipping through my past notes like a mad woman!!! 🤪 Anybody who knows me…knows that Courtney is one of my all time favorite authors and I absolutely adore her Arterian Series ( Book 1 Of Flames & Fallacies and Book 2 Of Blood & Banes …Book 3 Of Fire & Fates coming soon) I mean I ate those books up and I will own every copy...
