Fiery Phoenix

By Sophie Masters

By night, I'm Pheonix-reindeer shifter, fire dancer, and performer at The Arctic Room's legendary fire bar. By day, I'm... still Pheonix, but with a bit more soot under my nails and a passion for igniting every stage I step onto. My soul blazes with the thrill of fire, whether I'm swirling flames under the Arctic sky or dazzling crowds at festivals around the globe. Santa's gentleman's club might pay my bills, but fire dancing is my art-and it's the one place I feel truly free. It's also where my family's secret-that we're not just caribou shifters but also legendary phoenixes-can be seen as performance art rather than something hidden in the farthest reaches of the North Pole.

Now, thanks to a last-minute security change, my upcoming week at Burning Man will be spent under the constant gaze of Everett, the head security guard's youngest son, my coworker at the bar, and the one person I've never seen eye to eye with, no matter how much I've tried. He's all rigid rules and infuriatingly watchful eyes, and the last person I want shadowing me. But with my usual guard suddenly unavailable, I'm stuck sharing every fiery performance, every late-night rehearsal, and even my temporary camp with my prickly protector-all while plotting how to ensure my full-moon transformation from human to caribou, to ash, and back dazzles the crowd as an incredible, magical performance without raising Everett's suspicions.

As the week unfolds in a blur of sparks and desert heat, we're forced into a tentative truce. I discover that maybe, just maybe, there's more to Everett than stoic duty and stone-gray eyes. Behind his armor, he's as fierce as the flames that fuel my art, and together, we're drawn into a passion as unpredictable-and as combustible-as fire itself.

Fiery Phoenix is a forced-proximity, enemies-to-lovers, holiday romance, where the fire that separates two opposites may just be the spark that brings them together.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FQ37HBB7
• ISBN13: 9798264042430
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"