Already a fan of Erin
Kellison’s unique imagination and character building talents, dragons just
sucked me in. I’m so glad I didn’t resist buying and reading, TEMPTED BY FIRE,
book one in the Dragons of Bloodfire series.
***purchased
for my own personal reading but sharing my honest and unscripted review
Blurb for TEMPTED BY
FIRE:
Dragon
shifter Thane Ealdian has waited six hundred years to avenge the loss of his
family, and finally a clue has surfaced that implicates an old adversary. Thane
will stop at nothing to seek his revenge, but to prevent violence between the
clans, the Bloodkin Triad has forced a mediator on him. Some upstart named
Emerson Clark...
Emerson is
fed up with all Bloodkin and how they've managed to control every aspect of her
life. While she doesn’t believe that Bloodkin can shift into dragons—because,
really?—she has to admit, they are exceptionally nice to look at. But once the
mediation is over, she wants nothing to do with them ever again.
When Thane
discovers that the clever and beautiful Emerson is the key to uncovering the
truth, he has no intention of letting her go. Although she wants to run, she
can’t turn her back on Thane or her intense feelings for him. His quest pulls
at her heart, just as his nearness sparks something dangerous inside her. With
evil in hot pursuit, sooner or later everything will ignite—the mediation, the
shifter within her... and their passions.
*TEMPTED BY FIRE was
previously published in the anthology, DARK AND DAMAGED.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Emerson
does not believe that she has dragon blood and since becoming involved with the
Bloodkin – a dragon society – she is definitely convinced she doesn’t and wants
nothing more to do with them. She doesn’t even believe there are dragons much
less her being one. When she is asked to mediate a dispute over the remains of a woman
and baby, she begrudgingly goes but fully intends to quit and disappear as
soon as it’s over. Things don’t go quite as planned, especially after she meets
the reclusive and rather grumpy, Thane Ealdian. Even more shocking for Emerson
is to discover that dragons do exist and then things get very interesting…very.
Thane
is ready to accept his dragon and travel to Havyn, the isle where old dragons go to fly free, flame, and fall to ash but when the remains of his wife and son
are recovered he must first discover who killed them. To complicate matters, he
is unusually drawn to the beautiful young woman who has been sent by the
Bloodkin Triad to act as mediator. His dragon seems to desire her dragon and so
perhaps, it’s not quite time to let his dragon fly free.
Wow,
and double wow! I loved everything about this book…the characters, the story
line, the action – even when a bit gory – the premise of dragons living among
us with their hoards and magic life-extending blood. Thane is grumpy,
introverted, and possessive but actually a complete romantic. Emerson is
everything strong and modern in a woman but her dragon knows what she wants, and
I’m with her. Erin has conjured a modern world, which we all recognize but has layered
within it, a mysterious and magical paranormal realm that fits like a glove. I
can’t wait to read the next one, AWAKENED BY FIRE, which I’ve already bought. I
want so much to read it next but it’s going to have to wait just a bit longer.
In
the meantime, I highly recommend TEMPTED BY FIRE, the first book in this
extraordinary Dragons of Bloodfire series by Erin Kellison – even if you’re not
a fan of paranormal, it’s everything exciting – castles and fast cars, and intrigue driven
by amazing characters and buried secrets.
Happy
Reading Everyone!
TEMPTED
BY FIRE, a Dragons of Bloodfire novel by Eric Kellison, Fire Flower Publishing,
available now in print and ebook formats at Amazon,
Barnes
& Noble, and Kobobooks.
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