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
The Defiant Mate (Book 1)
by jennifer francis
About this book
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Jay-la is banished by the future Alpha, Alpha Nathan of her pack, Blood Moon Pack, her lover for just over a year, for striking with claws out his newly found fated mate, told to never come back. Jay-la leaves as alpha ordered, not turned rogue only because he is not yet the Alpha in charge. When she asks her wolf Kora why she strikes the future Luna with claws out Kora responds, "to protect pup."
She returns to university to live on campus to finish her law degree, stays in the human world working as divorce lawyer, staying away from her pack, away from the future Luna who hates her and she knows would never tolerate her pups. A secret no one knows about.
Six years she has been away when she gets an official pack letter to return home, she burns it and defies the new Alpha in charge's order, Alpha Nathan, to come home.
He will bring her in no matter what. She will never go back. She will fight to stay in the human world, away from him and his Luna who would harm her children.
Confined to try and capture her in the human world, as she is well known to the humans around her and can not suddenly just go missing, can he bring her in and return her to his pack, to his side where she belongs?
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B0C51X2RRH
Reader Reviews
March 13, 2026
I initially found this book online but never found the whole book. I had it for several months and finally sat down to read the whole thing. Book 1 took much longer than Book 2 but that was me being into many others at the same time. Book 2 was read in two days less than 24 hours actually. I loved how Nathan continued to pursue Jay-la but finally realizing he had to give her time. Nathan realized why Jay-la was avoiding him and worked to help her learn he loved her and wouldn’t hurt her. Wish...
September 9, 2023
The story is good and tugged all the emotional heartstrings. My issue with this product is that it doesn't tell a whole story. The main problem introduced at the beginning of the book is not resolved by the end. The missing ending is dismissed with a \"To be continued,\" but unless they're gonna send me the next issue, I would rather not pay full price for half the story. ) 11 people found this helpful
April 20, 2025
Read this book along the defiant mate 2 on Dreame I really like them a lot so when I saw the paperback versions here I had to buy them since they are very good and it is nice sometimes to have a proper hard copy rather than just a screen. I have in fact Jennifer Francis books on Dreame including ‘alpha Addison’ ‘the alpha and beta’s regret’ ‘unscentable’ and ‘her alphas orders’ and I hope these will be also be published in hard copies so I can buy them to add to my book collection. I would...
January 9, 2024
This was a good story but it is in dire need of editing. I don’t know what school is like where author lives, but spelling is bad, wrong words used, some poorly constructed sentences that had words being misplaced in the sentence. Book 2 was no better. In the Author’s Note at the beginning, she commends her editor, Viktor. If Viktor actually did edit, his education is no better than hers. ) 3 people found this helpful
November 2, 2023
I really like this author, this book, and the sequel. It’s Dreames fault it’s split into 3 books instead of one larger book. They are doing that for all the books and I honestly hate it. I would rather just buy a bigger book. ) 6 people found this helpful
