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
by E.P. Bali
With my life going down in literal flames I ran from everything: From my father, from a forced marriage, from my mates.
Now, charged with a crime I didn’t commit, they’re all hunting me. And they’re all furious.
The dangerous deputy headmaster of Animus Academy manages to catch me and along with three of my five mates (two are still a mystery) we’re taken back to the prison-school they use to teach feral beasts how to live alongside humans.
Now I’m locked up with the very men I’ve been trying to avoid all my life.
No one can know who my mates are. No one can know who I really am. Because if they do, it’s lights out for me. I’ll be chained and bred until I die.
And I refuse to allow that to happen.
This is the first book in a New Adult MFMMMM 5 book series where the heroine has five fated mate love interests that will form a bonded group. It is slow burn with 18+ spice starting from book 1. Each book has a cliffhanger ending but the series will finish with a HEA.
Length: 13 hours
Tropes: fated mates, found family, hidden identity, hidden powers, slow-mid burn
Please see author's website for content warnings: ektaabali.com/themes
August 21, 2025
I received this as an audiobook ARC and man did I eat this up! After completing the prequel audio book for the series I dove right into this one dying for more of not just the story but all of the characters. This story follows the FMC and her 5 fated mates, so right there you know the spice and relationships are going to be heated and heavy, and it does not disappoint. The mates are revealed slowly and so far it seams each book expands on the backstory as well as character development and...
May 20, 2026
Love it but I actually meant to start with this book because I didn’t see a prequel listed and just accidentally happened upon the prequel and did read that first, if I didn’t I probably wouldn’t have gotten through this one because I would’ve been a bit lost. Ive been glued since though 🥰 )
January 25, 2026
I had no clue I would absolutely devour this book. The description of the book was intriguing and I did think I would have a good time. But I absolutely loved everything about this book. Even the smallest change in the wolf shifter from the \"intro book\", the book vicious beast that are recommended to read first. And yes you absolutely should read that book first. And at first I was thrown back of how different Savage is. But at the end see why that was necessary, and also that it wasn't that...
January 21, 2026
Definitely dint see this tagged as DARK romance, but there’s strong bullying and trauma throughout the entire book. It’s. But all over the place, a lot of repeating information and not all of the story is well developed/explained. It could do with a decent edit/cull of some of the filler. However, the plot is original and interesting and it reads well. ) 4 people found this helpful
July 31, 2025
Let me tell you, this series came out of nowhere for me, and now I’m fully obsessed. I hadn’t even heard of it until yesterday. I went in completely blind, no expectations, no spoilers… and then I got blessed with an email that included the audiobooks for both this novel and the prequel novella Her Vicious Beast. Naturally, I started immediately, and wow, I did not stop. I was so hooked that I binge-read/listened to both the novella and this nearly 600-page book in one day. That’s how immersive...
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