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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.
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Book Review
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Firevein: The Awakening begins in a world that feels warm, festive, and almost unreal in its beauty, but it does not take long for that atmosphere to shift into something stranger. What first appears to be a winter wedding trip slowly unfolds into a story shaped by memory, longing, mythology, and the unsettling feeling that some connections begin long before two people officially meet.
At the centre of the novel is Cristabel Johnson, who arrives in Norway carrying far more beneath the surface than she initially allows others to see. Outwardly she is witty, flirtatious, and endlessly talkative, using humour to smooth over awkwardness and discomfort before anyone can look too closely. Yet underneath that brightness sits exhaustion, grief, and the lasting emotional damage left behind by illness and abandonment. The revelation that she survived cancer, only to be left by the person who should have supported her, changes the way many of her reactions are understood. Her humour stops feeling careless and begins to feel protective.
The novel handles that vulnerability carefully. Cristabel is never reduced to her suffering, nor is she presented as fragile because of it. Instead, the story allows her to remain contradictory—confident and insecure, bold and frightened, deeply lonely while trying very hard to appear unaffected. That balance makes her feel far more believable than many fantasy romance heroines.
Alongside her is Rurik, whose presence shapes the emotional atmosphere of the book almost immediately. Their first meeting at the airport is written with an unusual sense of familiarity, as though both characters are responding to something half remembered rather than entirely new. The attraction between them is immediate, but what gives it weight is the sense that recognition arrives before understanding.
As the novel progresses, the relationship between them becomes increasingly physical, and the story leans heavily into erotic fantasy. However, the intimacy rarely feels disconnected from the emotional or supernatural elements surrounding it. Desire in this novel is tied closely to memory, instinct, and identity. Physical closeness becomes a way of uncovering truths rather than escaping them, which gives those scenes a stronger narrative purpose than simple attraction alone.
The setting contributes enormously to the atmosphere. Norway is presented almost like a place caught between reality and folklore—snow-covered streets, candlelit buildings, forests, ancient hotels, and traditions that feel older than explanation. The further the story moves into Røros and the spaces surrounding it, the clearer it becomes that the world itself is not entirely ordinary. The novel gradually introduces the idea that humans are not the only beings occupying it, and that older forces continue to exist quietly beneath modern life.
What I found particularly effective was the way the mythology unfolds slowly rather than through long explanations. Fragments of memory, repeated sensations, strange recognitions, and moments of uncertainty slowly build into something larger. The novel trusts the reader to sit within uncertainty for quite a long time before everything begins to connect.
By the end, the story becomes less concerned with whether the supernatural elements are real and more focused on what they represent. Beneath the mythology and sensuality sits a story about being seen fully after pain, about returning to something once lost, and about the terrifying hope involved in trusting love again after survival has taught you not to expect it.
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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A heartfelt thank you for your review of FIREVEIN: THE AWAKENING. It means so much to see the book out in the world with such wonderful support behind it. ❄️🔥
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your kind review and for being part of the blog tour. Your thoughtful comments about the romance, mystery, and Norse lore absolutely made my day.
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