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
Love Bites (Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery, 1)
by Cynthia St. Aubin
About this book
Hanna Harvey is a recently divorced art history grad student who just wants to pay her rent and keep her three beloved cats fed. When she lands a dream job as an assistant to the dangerously attractive gallery owner Mark Abernathy, she thinks her biggest challenge will be keeping her professional composure. Instead, she finds herself thrust into a dangerous supernatural mystery that threatens to turn her life upside down.
This witty urban fantasy kicks off a series that perfectly blends suspense with laugh-out-loud humor. As shifters begin to reveal their true nature, Hanna discovers that her boss is guarding a dark secret. When his former flames start turning up dead, she becomes the prime target in a murder investigation led by a brooding, gorgeous detective who is far too invested in her survival.
If you love the academy setting vibe mixed with high-stakes paranormal romance, this story is your next obsession. It is a refreshing take on the genre, featuring a relatable, snarky heroine who proves that solving a murder is hard work, but keeping a household of hungry felines satisfied is the real trial. Dive into this addictive mystery where the bite is just as sharp as the banter.
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- 1250407117
Reader Reviews
March 3, 2023
I am a lover of suspense and paranormal, and the touches if hysterical humor and a relatable main character make this series absolute perfection. Your heart will melt, you will fall over laughing, you will cry, and you will finish reading while simultaneously purchasing the next one. Cynthia is a goddess! The stories she writes, the detail in her words, the beautiful fluidity of the storyline. It can NOT be beat! Audiobook review: I am not usually a fan of solo narration, but Stella Hunter...
May 19, 2022
This one caught me by surprise. Though I admit, it could have done with a much better editing. There’s a whole section where Hannas name was changed to Hank. That said, the witty banter was on point, the flirtation heavy and the delightfully anxious organization desperate woman main character was amazing. I’m not pleased with the abrupt cliffhanger ending, but a solid shifter novel with an entertaining plot. )
November 3, 2023
This is the first book I have read from Cynthia. Purely by chance I saw this novel in my library because my husband has a habit of grabbing books when they are free. I picked this out of the many because cats were mentioned—how typical. Though the werewolf hint was already given right now the cover, there was still enough mystery in there to get me wondering if it's \"really gonna be like that\". Well, it is, but the way it is revealed still takes me by surprise! Hanna is also an amazingly...
April 26, 2024
Interesting concept; for the most part, the conceit and the story are relatively well told, and the mystery angle is quite well done. However, it remains unclear how Hanna is able to function as anything masquerading as an adult human. She spends almost all of her time thinking about how long it’s been since she last had, shall we say “adult fun times” for any censors lurking in Amazon? She is so preoccupied by when she has last had such, and the shapes of the male bodies around her, that she...
April 24, 2024
Rarely do I find an author that immediately triggered the need to purchase all of her books and start reading as fast as possible. This author hit every category of fantastic with her opening book in the Alpha Art Gallery series. I purchased, based on comments from two authors in my “immediate purchase and read” group. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, and these authors were “spot-on” with their recommendation. I also just returned from Amazon where I purchased all of St. Aubin’s...
