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Firevein: The Awakening
(Firevein Saga Book 1)
By Hanna Park
(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.
This is the second book I have read by Hanna Park and it did not disappoint. This is the story of Cristabel and Rurik. Their connection is intense almost immediately, but there’s also this sadness running underneath so many of their interactions that made their story feel heavier in a good way.
Rurik was definitely the standout character for me. The more you learn about him and what he’s been carrying for so long, the harder it is not to feel for him. I honestly thought the reincarnation storyline was one of the strongest parts of the book, especially the idea that he’s had to watch Cristabel die over and over again across different lifetimes. It added so much emotion to the story and made his behaviour make far more sense as things started being revealed.
Cristabel also felt believable to me because she doesn’t instantly understand what’s happening around her. She questions things, reacts emotionally, and sometimes struggles with everything being thrown at her, which made her feel much more real.
The fantasy side of the story takes a little longer to fully open up, but once it does near the end, it really adds another layer to everything that came before it. A lot of pieces start falling into place, and it definitely left me more invested in where the series is heading next.
This ended up being a really emotional fantasy romance with a relationship that stayed in my head long after I finished reading. I’ll definitely be continuing the series after that ending.
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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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