Review: Very good start to the series :D
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
4 starsThis was a very good story. I really liked both Stig and Cora and enjoyed their story. I will warn you that the story is a bit shorter than it expected as it ended at around 80% on my Kindle (there's a preview for book #2 Red Hot Dragon at the end of the story). While it ended sooner than expected, I didn't feel it messed up the story.Cora is a baker and owns a bakery that her grandmother left her when she died. Cora is the sister to a Marine named Hector (who also died). Hector was a good friend to Stig (who Cora's been in love with for years) and when he dies, Stig offered Cora a place to go if she ever needs help. Unfortunately, some left over issues from Hector's pre-death dealings come calling on her and Cora finds herself in a big bind. This ends her up on Stig's doorstep with everything she owns in her car asking for his help.Stig is an immortal dragon shifter. He's in a brotherhood of dragons that protect the rest from "Knights" (humans that hunt the dragons because of an ancient blood feud). Part of the rules of the brotherhood is not to mate with human women. This rule and his friendship with Hector (bringing the "bro code" in to affect) has kept him from letting his attraction for Cora become anything more. When Cora shows up as his mating heat is starting Stig knows it's unwise to let her stay in his home but he cares to much for her to turn her out when she needs him.Cora is having trouble with some gangsters that her brother owed money from gambling debts. When things get rough, she goes to Stig for help. He doesn't want her to stay because he knows it'll be practically impossible stay away from her during his heat and also to hide things from her. He manages it the first night, although some hot dreams seem to prove a link between them. After she questions some weird noises she heard the night before, Stig admit there's something different about him and gives her a key to a chest containing some of his "history", which she looks over as he goes to lock himself away for the second night. Cora figures out that Stig is immortal and knows there's something strange about him but still doesn't know what he is.That night, after another hot dream, Stig (more under the control of his dragon side than his human) asks Cora to come to him, insisting that he needs her. She goes to the cavern he's locked himself up in and finds out what he is. She's actually more fascinated by him being a dragon than scared and they end up making love and she spends the night with him there. The next day, they admit their love for each other and things are going well until Cora starts experiencing some changes associated with her mating to Stig. She kind of freaks and starts to leave him but at the last moment, realizes she's being stupid and goes back to him. Unfortunately, on her way back, she's run off the road by the "Knights". Stig feels her need and comes to rescue her. They end up kind of saving each other and Stig's brotherhood comes to help out. In the end, Stig and Cora are safe, their mating is accepted by the brotherhood and they start their HEA together.I really liked this story. Cora and Stig are great and I really enjoyed the story. It's a hot and sweet story and I'm looking forward to the next story in the series. Id' recommend this story. Thumbs up. :D