Stroke of Fire

At almost thirty, Briella Everett is finally getting the chance to spread her wings away from her overprotective parents and pursue the life of an artist in New Orleans. She has fun new friends, an apartment she loves and the promise of a showing of her paintings at a small art gallery. The fact she can listen in on other people's thoughts and has the occasional, freakily accurate premonition is the little secret that inspires her work. Syn Terravon is content with his vagabond life. He travels the world and lives as he pleases, never staying in one place too long. It's a good way to forget about the horror that drove Syn and his fellow Firestorm dragons from their homeland three decades ago, separating them from their mortal companions. He's about to leave the Big Easy in search of his next adventure when he spots her. His lifemate. The connection is hot, raw and immediate. On his part. Briella is more annoyed than afraid when a tall, dark and dangerously attractive man with flames - actual flames - in his eyes accosts her outside her apartment. Yeah, sure he's there to protect her. She's shocked to learn the safe life she enjoys is nothing more than an illusion. For a woman to whom hard-won independence is sacred, putting her faith in a chivalrous stranger might just be the most dangerous challenge she's ever taken on.