Firevein: The Awakening
(Firevein Saga Book 1)
By Hanna Park
Publication Date: 14th April 2026
Publisher: Baisong Press
Print Length: 246 Pages
Genre: Fantasy Romance
I went to Røros for a wedding—not to fall for a man
who looked at me like he had already mourned me once.
From the first moment Rurik touched me, something beneath my skin burned. Every kiss felt inevitable. Every glance pressed at the edge of memory. He says I’ve lived before, that I’ve died before, that he has loved me through it all. I don’t remember him—but the mountain does.
The tunnels beneath Røros hum when I pass. Runes flare in the stone. The deeper I fall into his arms, the more something inside me begins to awaken—hot, wild, and impossible to ignore. I was never meant to survive what should have killed me. Now something ancient is stirring, and I can’t shake the feeling that it’s because I did.
I have buried Cristabel in every lifetime—though she has worn different names.
Across centuries, I have found her and lost her to the curse my bloodline was sworn to guard. She was never meant to live this time—but she did. Now the fire in her veins is awakening too soon. The balance beneath the mountain is shifting, and the oath I have carried for generations is beginning to fracture.
I waited lifetimes to hold her again. This time, I will not let her go—even if saving her means unleashing what should have remained buried.
A steamy Nordic fantasy romance of reincarnation, fate, and fire.
Triggers: Female cancer survivor. Steamy open-door scenes.
Firevein: The Awakening completely pulled me in from the start. The atmosphere is one of the strongest parts of the book — cold landscapes, ancient magic, and a world that feels vivid without pages of heavy description slowing things down. The Nordic-inspired setting gave the story such a distinct feel and made it really easy to get lost in.
What kept me most invested though was the relationship between Cristabel and Rurik. Their connection is immediate, intense, and emotionally charged from the beginning, and every interaction between them carried tension. I loved that their dynamic wasn’t soft or straightforward; it felt conflicted and unpredictable in a way that made it difficult to stop reading. Rurik has that dark, guarded energy that works so well in fantasy romance, but he never felt flat, and Cristabel held her own throughout the story.
I also liked that the fantasy plot had real depth outside of the romance. There’s a bigger story unfolding beneath everything, with magic, history, and unanswered questions gradually coming together as the book progresses. The only part that slightly confused me was the sauna scene where they suddenly end up outside and alone, as I had to reread that section to fully understand what was happening. Aside from that, I found the story easy to follow and genuinely hard to put down.
If you enjoy fantasy romance with intense chemistry, strong atmosphere, and emotionally complicated characters, this is definitely one to pick up and I am looking forward to reading book 2.
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Hanna Park
I began my writing career in the pre-dawn of a winter morning while my husband snored like a train. We could call my husband the catalyst. If it weren’t for him, I would never have gone to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee, feed the cat, and sit on the loveseat in front of the fire. It was there, in those moments of wondrous quiet, that I did something I had never thought possible. I opened my laptop, and while the coffee went cold, I wrote a story. My husband had no idea that these sojourns to the loveseat in front of the fire would become a daily occurrence, that writing would become an obsession, but the cat knew. She knows everything.
I write stories that make you laugh, make you cry, and make you love. Thank you, friends, for reading!
In the beginning, there was an empty page.
I am a writer who lives in Muskoka, Canada, with a husband who snores, a hungry cat, and an almost perfect canine––he’s an adorable little shit.
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