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
Fan Service
by Rosie Danan
About this book
“Danan’s one of the best at breaking your heart with a single sentence...Because as romance readers we want to feel just as shattered — and just as redeemed — as the people on the page.”—New York Times Book Review
The truth is stranger than fan fiction in the next sexy paranormal rom-com from the beloved author of The Roommate.
The only place small-town outcast Alex Lawson fits in is the online fan forum she built for The Arcane Files, a long-running werewolf detective show. Her dedication to archiving fictional supernatural lore made her Internet-famous, even if she harbors a secret disdain for the show’s star, Devin Ashwood. (Never meet your heroes—sometimes they turn out to be The Worst.)
Ever since his show went off the air, Devin and his career have spiraled, but waking up naked in the woods outside his LA home with no memory of the night before is a new low. It must have been a coincidence that the once-in-a-century Wolf Blood Moon crested last night. The claws, fangs, and howling are a little more difficult to explain away. Desperate for answers, Devin finds Alex—the closest thing to an expert that exists. If only he could convince her to stop hating his guts long enough to help....
Once he makes her an offer she can’t refuse, these reluctant allies lower their guards trying to wrangle his inner beast. Unfortunately, getting up close and personal quickly comes back to bite them.
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
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Reader Reviews
June 24, 2025
5 / 5 Stars Gosh, I LOVED this book. It was the perfect mix of funny, spicy, and heartfelt. Alex grew up as the weirdo in Tompkins, Florida. The town is divided into the have and have nots and folks decided Alex was a have not. So Alex has kept everyone at an arm's length. The only thing that kept her going was The Arcane Files, a werewolf detective TV show, that she watched growing up. She loved it so much, she became the moderator of the online forum and keeper of all TAF knowledge. So when...
March 27, 2025
I love this author because she writes books that are different, unique, sometimes magical but always with depth and emotions. I liked this story. I enjoyed the dynamic between the two characters, their banter (even though it was kinda mean at times,) and the sweet, flutters in my chest during certain moments between them (i particularly liked the nod to beauty and the beast and the idea of the magic of love.) but there were times I really disliked the characters, especially the mmc. He was...
April 16, 2025
I have really enjoyed all of her other books. This one felt a little preachy to me. And I have a hard time reading a book that uses plural pronouns for singular people. It feels like the grammar is wrong which I don't enjoy. I wish I had waited to buy this book when it went on sale instead of right after it came out. ) 5 people found this helpful
December 7, 2025
So adorable and different! I usually can't stand romance books that bring up romance books and fanfic (it usually feels fourth-wall-breaky in a cringey way) but this story pulled it off, I think because the tv and fanfic history fed the main character's flaws and character growth. I loved the characters, loved that they were in their mid-thirties and early forties, and loved the werewolf origin story and them getting to work everything out together from the jump, with lots of great tension...
March 15, 2025
THIS WAS A SUCH A BLAST!!!! Pretty sure this is my favorite Rosie Danan. (Possible vague spoilers below??) I was all in from the moment he was so sweet to her at the Con only for things to take a drastic turn not 3 paragraphs later. And for Alex to have used that interaction as the evidence she needed to fuel her persona for the rest of her life - it hurts so much!!! And poor Devin! Going through so much and being trained all his life to stuff it down to make himself more palatable. Their...
