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One Night to Burn
When the stylists told her they would make her hot, Kira didn’t believe they meant literally. She never dreamed that at the end of the free makeover, a stranger would toss the torch that would burn away her former self. To her horror, she would find more changed than her hair color. For Kira, life would never be the same.
Humans feared the power of the elementals, so they locked them away. In the process they altered the balance of nature…
800 years later, the elements have awakened. Maddened by centuries of imprisonment, these powerful beings crave vengeance. Three unsuspecting women will have to soothe the savage forces before it’s too late.
One will find rebirth in the flames that take her life.
40,000 words
Humans feared the power of the elementals, so they locked them away. In the process they altered the balance of nature…
800 years later, the elements have awakened. Maddened by centuries of imprisonment, these powerful beings crave vengeance. Three unsuspecting women will have to soothe the savage forces before it’s too late.
One will find rebirth in the flames that take her life.
40,000 words
151 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 25, 2012
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Autumn Dawn
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I'm a stay at home mom with three kids, a dog and an active imagination. I spent the first 34 years of my life in Alaska, land of the midnight sun, but these days I'm located in Washington, and am enjoying a much warmer sun :) I'm married to my high school sweetheart, John, who is known to bring me flowers "just because".
My leisure time is filled with gardening, crochet, knitting, sewing, art and reading.
I'm a stay at home mom with three kids, a dog and an active imagination. I spent the first 34 years of my life in Alaska, land of the midnight sun, but these days I'm located in Washington, and am enjoying a much warmer sun :) I'm married to my high school sweetheart, John, who is known to bring me flowers "just because".
My leisure time is filled with gardening, crochet, knitting, sewing, art and reading.
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November 25, 2012
What a fantastic, original story! Just when I thought I had read just about everything in the paranormal romance genre One Night to Burn came along and blew my mind!
Kira's stuck in a rut and decides to take a vacation to Hawaii. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned when she signs up for a free makeover. After a pretty horrible scene, where she just knows she's going to die, she wakes up back in her hotel room alive, but very changed. She's more beautiful, has jewelry that can't be removed, and is ravenously hungry. Food doesn't diminish the hunger she feels, but to her horror fire does! Which leads her to the volcanoes of Hawaii. She's drawn to the lava, and the fire Elemental that resides there, Raze.
Raze is pissed. After 800 years of being imprisoned he's free and ready to take his revenge. Unfortunately for him the Fates have a plan to keep him placid, and it involves a fiery, former human, redhead wearing his wedding jewelry.
Thrown together by the Fates Raze and Kira start to explore an inevitable attraction. But their relationship takes a back seat when Kira's hateful mother shows up, a murderous cult has it's eye on getting rid of the former Fire King, and a power hungry elemental Queen starts causing problems.
I can't praise One Night to Burn enough. I'm a sucker for an 'ordinary girl-turned extraordinary' storyline. Add that with a brooding, extremely hot immortal and enough action to keep my adrenaline flowing and you've got a winner. I can't wait to return to the alternate world Autumn Dawn has created in the forthcoming second in the series; When the Sea Burns.
Kira's stuck in a rut and decides to take a vacation to Hawaii. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned when she signs up for a free makeover. After a pretty horrible scene, where she just knows she's going to die, she wakes up back in her hotel room alive, but very changed. She's more beautiful, has jewelry that can't be removed, and is ravenously hungry. Food doesn't diminish the hunger she feels, but to her horror fire does! Which leads her to the volcanoes of Hawaii. She's drawn to the lava, and the fire Elemental that resides there, Raze.
Raze is pissed. After 800 years of being imprisoned he's free and ready to take his revenge. Unfortunately for him the Fates have a plan to keep him placid, and it involves a fiery, former human, redhead wearing his wedding jewelry.
Thrown together by the Fates Raze and Kira start to explore an inevitable attraction. But their relationship takes a back seat when Kira's hateful mother shows up, a murderous cult has it's eye on getting rid of the former Fire King, and a power hungry elemental Queen starts causing problems.
I can't praise One Night to Burn enough. I'm a sucker for an 'ordinary girl-turned extraordinary' storyline. Add that with a brooding, extremely hot immortal and enough action to keep my adrenaline flowing and you've got a winner. I can't wait to return to the alternate world Autumn Dawn has created in the forthcoming second in the series; When the Sea Burns.
June 12, 2023
Sigh. I'm a huge Autumn Dawn fan, or I was. I live in a small Southern town that is made up primarily of mixed race couples, so I don't appreciate the continual references to Southern ignorance and intolerance for mixed race couples....which, btw, happens in the North also. The author took the cheap, cliched road and delivered more than a little sloppy writing because of it. Also, the hero wasn't even of African descent....he was a fire elemental, so I wonder if the implication that he was "black" by ethnicity standards would be offensive to someone of actual African American descent? Maybe someone will weigh in for me on this!
Ms. Dawn phoned this one in big time. The world development was fairly strong and had some promise, but the plot was tired, overdone, cliched, etc. Having read the rest of her books outside of this series, I am grossly disappointed and won't be picking up the next one.
Honestly, it read like a cheap, poorly done remake of M. Hall's Kingdom series...just sayin'. The parallels are astounding.
She would've done better to develop a sequal to Women, Whiskey, & Gold which represents the potential level of unique and compelling writing at which this story should've been written but wasn't.
Ms. Dawn phoned this one in big time. The world development was fairly strong and had some promise, but the plot was tired, overdone, cliched, etc. Having read the rest of her books outside of this series, I am grossly disappointed and won't be picking up the next one.
Honestly, it read like a cheap, poorly done remake of M. Hall's Kingdom series...just sayin'. The parallels are astounding.
She would've done better to develop a sequal to Women, Whiskey, & Gold which represents the potential level of unique and compelling writing at which this story should've been written but wasn't.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 11, 2015
I couldn't finish this book. I made it a third of the way through before finally giving up. It read like a rough draft on fast forward. All tell and no show...no emotion. Just blah. Odd because I liked Autumn Dawn's book 'Charmer', but One Night To Burn felt like a completely different author.
August 10, 2015
This was a good book and was interesting. I would have liked to know more about the elementals and the fates and how they picked the women but overall it was good.
December 15, 2016
When I first saw this book it seemed interesting, but overall I think the whole idea of the book is redundant and not that interesting. It had a few good parts but I didn't like it.
March 10, 2014
I thoroughly enjoyed the concept of the book. After slogging my way through a sea of Were-mance, Fang-dom and Hocus-Poke-This (soz, I couldnt help it!) I was tickled pink with the change. Plus I've just finished uploading the two sequels in the series from Kobo.
However, parts of it felt too hurried and lacked any real substance. And admittedly other parts were bland and rather yawn worthy. I don't know bout you, but if I was sacrificed to appease some kind of genocidal maniac, I would have other things on my mind besides how to jump his molten bones. Just saying.
Now, would I recommend this? Sure. After all it was a free book (Kobo) and it killed an hour or two. But if you're a heavy on descriptive writing or a champion of the prose, this may not appeal. Otherwise give it a go.
Happy reading!
However, parts of it felt too hurried and lacked any real substance. And admittedly other parts were bland and rather yawn worthy. I don't know bout you, but if I was sacrificed to appease some kind of genocidal maniac, I would have other things on my mind besides how to jump his molten bones. Just saying.
Now, would I recommend this? Sure. After all it was a free book (Kobo) and it killed an hour or two. But if you're a heavy on descriptive writing or a champion of the prose, this may not appeal. Otherwise give it a go.
Happy reading!
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January 4, 2014This book is so bland, and so underwhelming, I was actually shocked when it ended because nothing happened. The characters were flat and uninteresting, there was no real development, and no real explanation to anything. I finished this only because my mom loaned it to me and wanted me to read it. Otherwise, this book is worth skipping.
January 30, 2013
I really liked it. Autumn Dawn is starting to become one of my favorite authors. The one detail was that it was a little choppy in some places. Otherwise it would be in my favorites of favorites. Can't wait for the next books
July 26, 2015
Good book
Loved the book, would recommend to anyone interested in books about Elements. The characters were funny, especially like some of the abilities that they had from their elements. A great book and am looking forward to others in the series.
Loved the book, would recommend to anyone interested in books about Elements. The characters were funny, especially like some of the abilities that they had from their elements. A great book and am looking forward to others in the series.
June 25, 2013
Could do with more proof reading as a few errors which detracted from the reading experience
December 29, 2013
A great introduction to a new world. Love that we get a glimpse into a different setting with Elementals...fire, earth, water and wind. Over enjoyable...wish the story was s little longer!
March 4, 2014
Surprisingly good book. I recommend this book along with her other series.
May 5, 2014
pretty good.. fast paced and interesting plot line
although it's all tell and no show in this book.
although it's all tell and no show in this book.
June 2, 2016
Fates prepare young women for relationships with Earth elementals, in this case, the king of fire. Cute love affair.
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