This is a fun and steamy dragon shifter romance. The story dives right into the attraction between Elodie and August. She walks out of a coffeeshop to interrupt an argument between a man and a woman. As soon as the man turns to her, he goes into heat, and as soon as he touches her, she joins him there.

If they sate their bond, they’ll be mated, but if they stay together (and maybe partake in some other actions to release some pressure), they may just make it through and be able to go their separate ways.

Fully expect to suspend your disbelief with this one; it is a dragon shifter romance after all. Elodie willingly goes with August, a dragon shifter whom she has just met, to his unfurnished cabin in the woods for four weeks. (Don’t worry; he gets furniture in there for her stat.) At least she has the forethought to be concerned about school and how her friends and mom will worry about her.

There’s plenty of heat to this one—both literal and of the attraction kind—but there’s also a sweetness to how they take care of each other. 

This is the first of three books, and it looks like each book focuses on the relationship between one of the three friends and one of the dragon shifter brothers.

I’m not going to lie; I will probably keep reading this series. This first book is a fun escape and has more plot than I was expecting. Listening to it at 2x speed on audio, it was a quick, little diversion that helped me get through some Saturday morning chores.

The audiobook has dual narration by Nick Mondelli and Renee Thorne. I expected his voice to be more gravely or growly as a dragon shifter, but ultimately liked his narration. Some of the phrasing in Thorne’s narration didn’t feel very natural to me, but those moments weren’t enough to fully pull me out of the story.

3.75⭐️

I listened to an advance copy of the audiobook from Dreamscape Media. All review opinions are my own.