I came to Fire Ridge to disappear. No clan. No claim. No one forcing me to mate and settle down. Just a quiet job, a classroom full of third graders, and a chance to breathe for once.
Then the school caught fire. And he came crashing through the flames.
Captain Draven Blackscale is everything I’m not—commanding, dangerous, impossible to ignore. He kissed me once to calm me down. Just one kiss. It should’ve ended there.
But now I can’t stop thinking about him. And my old clan just showed up demanding I come back… pregnant.
They don’t care that the baby is his. They don’t care that I finally found someone who makes me feel safe.
But Draven? He’s a dragon. And dragons don’t give up what’s theirs.
Fire Captain’s Baby is a sticky sweet and steamy M/M mpreg shifter romance featuring a cinnamon-sweet bear shifter teacher, a gruff protective dragon alpha, fated mates, a surprise pregnancy, knotting, and a clan war that threatens to burn it all down. High heat, tender moments, and an HEA guaranteed.
I only made it half through this story. It could use a rewrite. They’re supposed to be hiding their identities, but it keeps coming up. Even a third grader mentioned dragon/bear babies. Jonah’s brother recognized the dragon and yet Jonah seemed to be surprised by it later in the chapter.
Wanted to like this but can’t. One step forward 10 steps back they’re all omg he’s a dragon… but wait let me show you what I am, it’s cool let’s mate, but wait I have to tell you something, I’m a dragon. Did ai write this or was there zero proofreading? So much plot jumping back then repeating slightly different or what feels basically the exact same.
How a story this short could have so many contradictions and plot holes is astounding. Do we publish without any sort of edit, or beta reader or logic?
Spoiler alert! * * * * * * * I seem to have developed a mild, okay, aggressive, obsession with a new book genre. I found this book, the blurb was intriguing, and it looked like a promising start to a new series. Great. I was invested. Then I read Chapter One. There’s a fire at a school where one of the main characters is a teacher. His classroom is supposedly destroyed. Or at least, that’s what I inferred happened because Mr. Dragon Firefighter describes it as a “structural fire” and casually mentions stepping over a fallen beam that apparently would’ve required three firefighters to move. Fair enough. Classroom: toast. Fast forward to the very next day. The teacher, MC strolls back into school like nothing happened and starts describing his classroom as if it’s in its usual, perfectly intact state. No rubble. No fire damage. No “wow, insurance is going to love this.” Then we enter Shifter Logic: At one point, the MC partially shifts, and one of the bears straight-up calls him a dragon. Another character is openly referred to as a bear. Cool. Everyone seems aware. Great. World-building achieved. Except, next chapter Mr. Dragon is suddenly spiraling because he’s terrified he might have to explain to a human that he’s a dragon. Sir. What? Did we not just establish that Mr. Bear MC knows? Or are we playing some kind of supernatural peek-a-boo where everyone knows but also absolutely does not know? It honestly feels like the book was published halfway through a group edit where no one spoke to each other. Or at all. There is no rhyme, no reason, and no internal logic. It’s impossible to follow, deeply confusing, and leaves me wondering: Did anyone read this book before it escaped into the wild?
This story was a bit hard to follow at times, it would say one thing then contradict itself in the next line. Maybe if the book was a bit longer or gone through more editing it would have been better. I enjoyed the underlying plot, I think the story had so much potential and this really could have been a great novel!
This story was short but you'll find love & acceptance everywhere!!! I just wish the story was longer & included the birth of baby dragons bear But thanks for a beautiful story - Lori
Cute story, but what in the world? This story is so inconsistent. They don’t know each other are shifters, no one knows about shifters, then suddenly everyone in the town does and it’s accepted.
This was a cute, sweet, super quick read, and I enjoyed Draven and Jonah and how Draven was immediately drawn to Jonah and the way he cared for children. I liked how Draven protected Jonah from his past coming after him. This was fun and cute.