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
Blood of the Sirens
by Raven Storm
About this book
Mermaids don’t exist. But mermen do.
And they’ve just risen from the deep.
When a horde of mermen invade Jesse’s quiet North Carolina beach town, they’re not searching for love—they’re hunting for fertile human women to breed their dying kind.
Unfortunately for Jesse, she’s at the top of their list.
She doesn’t know that when she finds a half-naked man tangled in a fishing net during her nightly kayak ritual. She just thinks she’s saving him. Instead, she unleashes a war beneath the waves—between rival mer clans, a vengeful sea witch, and a centuries-old curse that binds her fate to the ocean itself.
As secrets surface and loyalties blur, Jesse will have to choose between the men who would die for her... and the one who might destroy her.
Tropes:
🔥 Touch her and die
💦 Steamy scenes
🐚 Mermen shifters
🌊 Mermaid awakening
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B0D912P3BB
Reader Reviews
February 9, 2026
I loved this! I loved Jesse’s description and personality!! It kept me hooked right from the beginning!!!!! Can’t wait to get the next books! )
November 22, 2025
It’s like the author gave up caring in the last 10% of the book. There’s weird pronoun confusion, what flavor ice cream is she eating (it changed from one paragraph to the next), since when does she work at a museum with kids and not an aquarium? There are minor editing issues in the earlier part of the book, but it’s easy to overlook. I didn’t even want to finish because the errors keep popping up. And they’re really noticeable inconsistencies with the plot and story line. Aside from that,...
January 5, 2026
It's the first mermaid book I've read. I liked it. Started the next one already. Hoping to heal the part of me that book 1 broke. They deserve so much better. )
December 3, 2025
Avery fun and interesting book to read. I’m looking forward to reading more of the story to come. Yes please more. )
March 2, 2026
Jesse is living on the coast just trying to survive grad school and the upkeep on her house when she meets a strange man who is tangled in a net and she helps him and her life turns upside down. I had no idea what to expect, I've never read any mermaid/merman books before but this was so fun. Loved the plus size representation, major swoon when he is strong and picks her up like it's nothing. The beginning felt a little slow and then it went from nothing to a thousand in a blink and never...
