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 Leah Ryan
It's a simple arrangement.
Wolves show up at Melori's door bleeding, growling, occasionally trying to bite the woman stitching them back together. She fixes them. They leave. She doesn't ask why they keep coming back.
She probably should have asked.
When her cottage is attacked, her best friend turns out to be a werewolf, and every wolf Melori has ever fed table scraps to walks back into her life on two legs. None of them are happy she knows about them. Especially not the alpha. The one with the scars. The one with the missing eye. The one she's been spoon-feeding rabbit stew for years.
Keer doesn't trust humans. He doesn't want her in his territory, doesn't want his pack depending on a healer who argues with him in a voice pitched high enough to shatter glass, and definitely doesn't want to think about why he can't stop watching her hands while she works.
But the same flowers Melori uses to save lives are being weaponized to take them—and she's the only one who knows the difference between the poison and the cure.
War is coming. The pack is splintering. And Melori, who chose this quiet life on purpose, is starting to wonder if she was alone out here all this time—or just waiting.
Moonbright is a standalone werewolf romance featuring a healer who thinks in spirals, a one-eyed alpha, found family, inverted lunar mythology, a pink chicken named Nugget, and a slow burn that earns every spark.
🌙 Standalone with full HEA
🌙 Slow burn, dual POV
🌙 Explicit content
🌙 Open world—room for more stories with different couples
May 20, 2026
I have had a hard time finding a book that pulls me and KEEPs me in its world.. and this book did that and it was amazing I look forward to reading more from Leah Ryan ! )
May 23, 2026
Love the humor in this book! I laughed out loud several times!! Mel is cool, but Nugget is the star of the book, obviously! )
May 23, 2026
I would love a second book to this one. This story was amazingly well written, I loved all the characters. )
May 16, 2026
There are authors you enjoy, and then there are authors you would follow anywhere. After Moonbright, Leah Ryan has firmly, irrevocably earned her place in the latter category! This standalone is an absolute treat from beginning to end, the kind of book that reminds you that romantasy doesn't always need to devastate — sometimes it just needs to be gloriously, brilliantly fun. Ryan wields wit like a precision instrument, her subtext layered so deftly beneath the surface that you find yourself...
May 18, 2026
Entertaining read. The flow is unique but in a way that feels true to the adhd side of the story. If you don't have adhd this might be a jumpy read, but any of us with it can relate. Another review claimed cliffhanger, which is not the case unless you can't read context clues. Overall cute easy low stakes read. )
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