Title: Sealed By Fire
Series: N/A
Author: A. Catherine Noon and Rachel Wilder
Genre: Fantasy/ Paranormal
Length: Novel (291 pages)
Publisher: Loose Id (June 24th, 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥3Hearts
Blurb: Vanya is a sorcerer’s apprentice who finally achieves his goal, initiation as a sorcerer – only to find that he, himself, is the intended sacrifice in their ritual. When the ritual goes wrong, his master flees and he is left with the creature that his master summons.
Stranded on this side of the portal, Nash is a powerful being with only one desire – find the sorcerer who stranded him and wreak his revenge. Vanya agrees to help, and in the process, he and Nash find more than they ever bargained for: love, friendship, and belonging.
Can they protect themselves against the sorcerer’s growing power, or will he destroy all that they hold dear?
Product Link: http://www.loose-id.com/sealed-by-fire.html
ISBN: 978-1-62300-143-8
Reviewer: Shorty
Review: Vanya, a handsome human virgin, sorcerer’s apprentice, learns at the last-minute that he’s the intended sacrifice to the Fire Elemental Ignatius. The ritual goes wrong and King, the mage who started the ritual, flees. Coming face to face with fire elemental intrigues, yet terrifies Vanya. What he doesn’t realize but Ignatius tells him, is the sacrifice is his innocence and not his life. Ignatius, the sexy fire elemental, binds himself to Vanya so King can’t get him for at least three days.
What he doesn’t realize but Ignatius tells him, is the sacrifice is his innocence and not his life. King wants power and immortality and will get it at any cost even murder. After getting help from the Lamia to track down King and to protect Vanya, they all set out to find the truth about King. Vanya learning that King put everything in Vanya’s name is horrified to learn that King named himself as beneficiary in the event of Vanya’s death. As the story unfolds, we learn of lies and deceptions of King’s and the length’s he’s willing to go to get power as well as who Ignatius really is. Hot sex scenes between Nash and Vanya ignite the pages. The details of Swallows Nest and the cottage were both breathtaking and frightening.
It was an interesting story to read and well written but it felt unbalanced to me. A lot of focus in this book is on Vanya’s thoughts and feelings on different matters. The scenes that involved King seemed rushed with not a lot of details that would have added to the appeal of the story. All in all in it was a good read.