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 Emm E. Goshald
The daughter of the Aztec God Huitzilopochtli and the legendary white wolf Natalia, Xochil has spent the last three years traveling the world.
Now at twenty six, when her friends and family are all finding their mates and having pups, but she’s in no rush to find her mate. All goes out the window when a flight delay lands her in Phoenix in the middle of the night and she goes to a late-night steakhouse for dinner, only to find her mate yelling at a customer in the middle of the restaurant.
Her mate is not who Xochil expected to be. She expected she could be mated to any other kind of magical species but a human. Things get even more complicated when she realizes her mate is being stalked.
Aline has a secret of her own that cost her parents their lives and forced her and her grandmother to flee Brazil when she was young. Now, at twenty-nine, Aline is driven and focused on her restaurant. But things haven’t been right for the past few months. Everything is going wrong and she feels like she’s been cursed.
Then she meets Xochil. The woman calls to her like no other has and she finds herself bringing the woman into her home after knowing her for one day. Will Aline be able to accept the secret Xochil is hiding from her, and will Xochil be able to protect Aline from the man that stalks her every step.
May 5, 2025
I love shifter romances! Fated mates is my personal FAVORITE trope!!! This story was well written, sweet, with just a tinnnnyyyy bit of angst! As a Dominican woman myself I reallllyyy loved the ancestral worship rep! I think the spin on the gods and orixas (in DR we say Orisha) was super cool and creative and did a really good job at normalizing ancestral practices which so many people view as scary. I saw this author writes a lot of str8 romances which as a le$bian I don’t particularly enjoy...
September 16, 2025
Loved this take on a paranormal romance. Seeing non-white deities really was amazing! I really hope there are more wlw stories in the future but I'm looking forward to reading Miguel's story next. ) One person found this helpful
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