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When her twin sister goes missing, Tala hires the Shadow Zone’s most notorious dark hunter—a fiery hot werewolf with secrets that rival her own.

Practically Perfect. That’s the name of the magic shop my witch twin and I own in Chicago’s supernatural marketplace. In reality, things are not so perfect.

Tessa is the face of our shop. She draws in the customers to buy our potions, brews, spells, and enchantments. I’m the sensible sister moving boxes in the back. It works, sort of, and we have a pretty good life . . . until Tessa disappears.

My instincts tell me my sister didn’t leave by choice. But here’s the problem—this isn’t the first time she’s flitted off, forcing me to bail her out of trouble. So the authorities think I’m crying wolf. Again.

I have no choice but to venture to the Black Underbelly—part bar, part brothel, entirely dangerous—to hire the most notorious dark hunter in the Shadow Zone.

The Fire Wolf has flames in his eyes and a body that makes my mind go places it shouldn’t. I shouldn’t want him. I shouldn’t crave him.

Although none of that matters when we discover the reason behind Tessa’s abduction. Overnight I become a pawn in a much larger game that I never wanted to play.

Wolf of Fire is book one in a four-book shifter paranormal romance series with passionate slow-burn steam.

308 pages, ebook

First published April 29, 2022

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Krista Street

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Krista Street loves writing about coming of age characters who fight to find their place in this world while also finding their one true mate.

Krista Street is a Minnesota native but has lived throughout the U.S. and in another country or two. She loves to travel, read, and spend time in the great outdoors. When not writing, Krista is either chasing her children, spending time with her husband and friends, sipping a cup of tea, or enjoying the hidden gems of beauty that Minnesota has to offer.

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Profile Image for Mara.
2,538 reviews270 followers
July 31, 2022
I have a different idea about romance, it’s not lust, it’s not hormones that drug you stupid. In this case literally.
The plot was completely and repetely interrupted by illogical and unreal lust, lust-drug that completely destroyed both book and ending (as it “forced” the MFC to confess). I may believe in magic, I don’t believe in this.
There was a thin plot, and it was interesting. Pity.
Profile Image for Mikky.
975 reviews276 followers
March 19, 2023
March 2023-

Re-read #1


With all the romantasy I've been consuming lately this was a nice fluffy read that I didn't know I needed. You can just sit back and relax with this one. There are no super complex world-building/magical systems/story to wrap your head around. I'm glad I'm finally getting back into this one because I never ended up finishing the series and this will be my time!

I still stand by the opinions I expressed in my inicial review.
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June 2022 -

My Review:


I adore the universe this author has created! I feel bad that it took me SO long to get to this series. I was waiting on the audio book to release and it did not disappoint!

Fire Wolf was such a good character! I loved how he just gave zero f*cks unless it came to Tala. He's a bad*ss and just the right amount of possessive and domineering. He's definitely got his secrets and I want to unravel every single one of them. Personally. If he'll let me *wink wink*

Tala was kinda sorta all over the place. It's like she knows what she should be focused on but goes off on tangents and ends up swerving back to the point by sheer force of will. Since I was listening to the audio book it wasn't quite as distracting because I couldn't see what was coming up on a page. If I had been physically reading this book it would have probably annoyed me and lessened my enjoyment. On another note, I really want to understand why she feels how she feels about mate bonds. Does she simply believe they aren't real love? I'd like to dig into that more in the next novel of this series.

Tala's sister is an *ss. She does not deserve all that Tala has done and continues to do for her. Who simply decides to go off on their own without telling anyone for days on end enough times that the supernatural police simply refuse to look for them because of their stunts in the past? Who also decides to take the family secret and make it about themselves for attention? Tala's sister. That's who. If you ask me she has had it coming for a long time now.

I can't wait for the next audio book in the series to release! I was actually waiting for the audio books for the Supernatural Institute series to get released but that probably isn't in the cards anymore. I'll probably pick those up in the future when my eyes aren't on fire due to allergies.

The Audio Book:

The narrator wasn't a favorite but she wasn't bad either. I didn't find her range in male voices all that great if I'm being honest. Other than that everything was fine.
Profile Image for Sweet and Salty Reviews by DD.
612 reviews240 followers
May 17, 2022
World build is unique. I did find it hard to follow at times and had to do a little re-reading.

Tala annoyed the piss out of me. There I said it and I am not taking I back. I think she had sever ADHD undiagnosed and unmedicated. She reminded me of my husband when he doesn’t take his meds. She could not stay focused to save her sisters life. She was constantly asking various people various questions that had nothing to do with finding her sister. Then she would say *gasp* I need to focus on my sister. This happened a lot. Board line redundant.

What saved it for me? Fire Wolf. Who is beyond compelling. Mysterious. Sexy. Assholeish. Powerful. He grabs you form the minute he arrives on the pages. Can not wait to unravel him more. Also, the storyline and mystery were enjoyable to read and left me guessing.

On to book 2!

Happy reading,
DD🥂
Profile Image for TJ.
3,285 reviews281 followers
December 26, 2025
Man, I’m in the weirdest semi-book-slump ever! I’ll find ONE book that is awesome, then drudge through three or four that are just meh. Think this one is #3 in this round. Let’s cross our fingers something turns up.

As for this particular story, it’s fine - nothing great, nothing terrible. Although the FMC is supposedly an adult (although the exact age I can’t remember), she acts like a young teenager. That’s always an annoying juxtaposition for a reader to be in - adult content with a 14 year old attitude. And that RIDICULOUS lust thing where she drools and fantasizes every. Single. TIME she looks at the MMC gets so stupid, I was actually embarrassed FOR her! The cherry on the stupid shake is the actual sex scene and her crying foul. Oh good grief! You have a BRAIN!!

Still, the overall story did keep me interested, so there is that. I don’t think I’ll continue the series, though.
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234 reviews8 followers
February 23, 2025
Fun!

A fun, fast past read... This is somewhere between romantasy and urban fantasy. Classic Krista Street, engaging and full of twists!
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115 reviews2 followers
August 22, 2024
What in the wattpad was that! This made me want to forget how to read. If you want a book with all the tropes and cringe this might be for you.
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3,127 reviews85 followers
April 23, 2022
I don’t think I have read a book by this author before this one, but I will definitely be reading more! Tala’s twin sister is abducted, and she must hire a hunter to help her find Tessa. This was such a fun read, and while it’s a great romance, it’s also a great suspense-filled read, too. All the characters were fun, and I’d love to get to know Tala’s friend Prish more. I can’t wait to read the next book to find out about Carlos, what’s going to happen after the very end cliffhanger (uh, oh, the wolf is on the prowl!), and what’s going to happen with the collector. Great read! Highly recommend. I was provided a complimentary copy which I voluntarily reviewed.
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903 reviews57 followers
August 5, 2022
I really liked it but there are two VERY strong off points that frustrated me.

First, that sex confession scene. Yeah, it’s as dumb as other reviewers say it is.

But the bigger issue is the heroine’s sisters personality. Its so one dimensional, irresponsible, weak, manipulative, narcissistic and.. done before. We’ve soo seen this before. She’s the weak sister, the heroine is the strong sister who always sacrifices herself and puts up with being taken advantage off. Ugh.

We only learn this at the end of the book but if I have to read about the sister acting like that again and the heroine putting up with it I won’t be able to handle it!
Profile Image for Hannah.
164 reviews102 followers
August 30, 2025
This didn’t blow me away, but it was good enough that I’m going to read the next book. I liked the supernatural urban romance setting of the book. I quite liked both the FMC and MMC even though both of them still have a lot of secrets to unfold. I’m hoping we’ll see more of the possessive werewolf vibe from the MMC. So far his personality has been pretty closed off.

There’s still so many secrets open between the main characters that the FMC still called the MMC “fire wolf” and not his actual name that we heard one time. I’m hoping as the relationship develops we’ll start to uncover the secrets and get more depth to the characters.

The action is very fast paced but the burn has been excruciatingly slow. I feel like I’m the only person who actually really loves a fast burn/insta love story! I mean they’re obviously both into each other so WHAT is the problem?? I luuurve when the drama in a book is external and the relationship is strong - ya know? So anyway I’m rambling now, but I hope this slow burn doesn’t drag on for multiple books 😂

Also…the sister is such an ungrateful b.
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191 reviews
July 15, 2024
3.75. everything felt so rushed and not fully developed but it was a super easy and quick read.
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900 reviews38 followers
July 20, 2024
If Carlos doesn't take one look at Kaillen and bow out, he deserves everything that's going to happen to him, in my opinion.
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145 reviews5 followers
July 7, 2025
What a fun little read. Considering it’s only 300 pages there is a lot jam packed into this book. While the short length doesn’t allow for the deep dive of information and relationship building, it’s still a good read. Given that it’s set in the human world, with a secret magic society, there’s not an extensive need for world building here, mostly building of the magic system.

We’ve got Twin witches, Tessa and Tala.
When Tessa is abducted and the authorities won’t help because she has a tendency to be dramatic and run off without telling anyone, Tala hires a dangerous Hunter to track her down. The “fire wolf” as he’s known helps Tala locate and rescue Tessa, while it turns out there’s a lot more to her abduction than first realised. Tessa has been lying to people, claiming she has powers beyond what she should, when in fact it’s Tala with the enhanced powers and Tessa has almost none. Tala was supposed to be the victim of the kidnapping, as the gang that took Tessa have been kidnapping other powerful supernatural beings as well. While coming to terms with all this information, Tala is fighting off the mating bond of the Fire Wolf, after he’s lied to her.

This is well written for such a short story. The pace is fast and actioned packed, as expected for a quick 300 pages, at no point does it get boring and remains easy to follow. Due to the shortened length of the story it doesn’t really allow for the deep connection of relationship and world building as some other story’s, in saying that even with the short storyline, you’re not left feeling like anything is missing from the story because the detail that is included is thorough and decently well explained.

Tala is an exceptionally powerful witch, who has been hiding the true extent of her powers due to concern she could be targeted. She’s stubborn, feisty and a boss bitch. Doesn’t take shit from anyone and is happy to stand up to whoever she needs to. Everyone’s scared of the fire wolf but she goes toe to toe with him during their adventure of trying to find her sister.
There’s a real intelligence to her, considering she figures out their is a mating bond in place well before the fire wolf does, and considering it’s his order is creating the bond you’d think he’d be more aware of it. She quickly pieces together the apparent crime syndicate for kidnapping powerful beings and that the fire wolf wasn’t just working for her, but other people linked into these kidnapping too.
While the story is short and doesn’t allow for much of a deep dive into Tala and Tessa’s background, there is still thorough explanation as to why she is the way she is, and the reason she has for hiding her power in the first place.
Her being upset and feeling betrayed by the fire wolf when she figures out that he was working for another person to locate a kidnapped being before he started helping her, is immature. Given that this is probably a trope leading into the next book of her hating him and feeling betrayed, it’s obviously an additive to the storyline, but it’s immature, and takes away from any significant character development. He’s a hired Hunter, he owes Tala nothing and the fact that she’s upset he’s working for other people is egotistical.

The fire wolf, or Kaillen as we find out is his real name, is a scary, powerful, arrogant, forced to be reckoned with as described through the start of the book when Tala is trying to hire someone to track down her kidnapped sister. His sense of power and arrogance is well written into the story and developed through the first half of the book, given that this is a shortened story, there is a thorough explanation of who he is as a person, somewhat deeper than surface level. The idea that he doesn’t realise the mating bond because he’s out of tune with his order is really interesting and adds a good dynamic to the storyline. He’s obviously aware that something is going on given the overwhelming need he feels to be with Tala and protect her, and the idea that he doesn’t realise what’s going on is a different and enjoyable aspect to his character. He’s clearly powerful and a force of nature given how quickly he finds Tessa, really looking forward to his development in future books.

I knew I would hate Tessa from the get go. As soon as it became relevant that she is immature, scatterbrained, reckless, and impulsive I knew she was going to be annoying. And annoying she is. The fact that she had been lying about her level of power didn’t seem integral at first, given that Tala didn’t want to be known for the power. But once we find out that Tessa had been going around spilling Tala’s deepest secret, which could put her in significant danger, I knew that this character wasn’t going to develop far at least in this book. It’s unsurprising that jealousy is then extended into the framework of her character, blaming Tala for stealing her magic in the womb. Jealousy fits in well with her characteristics. Will she have a redemption arc in future books? Who knows. But from the start, I think it was fairly obvious she’s a bitch and can’t be trusted.

Tala not wanting to be a part of the mating bond is not a new basis of a storyline. Well, this has been used in multiple popular fantasy works it’ll be interesting to see if an individual shift can be written into this story. The addition of the crime syndicate kidnapping people should extend their story into future books well. It’ll be interesting to see the relationship dynamics and how they build in future books.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for alyona.
237 reviews10 followers
April 25, 2023
2.5/5

So that didn’t really end? I feel like the book was unfinished so you’d go and read the rest in the series… at least fire wolf was super cool!
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26 reviews
August 12, 2025
Great author and great story! My daughter (she’s 30 years-old) raved about these books so I decided to start one. Wow! Addicting! She was right! It’s so nice to read an engaging story with adventure, suspense, humor and erotica. I love the characters, the plot, the magic, it’s fabulous!

I would love to see a streaming series!

I’m already on the 3rd book, LOL!
Profile Image for Nancy.
64 reviews3 followers
April 23, 2022
This book is freaking amazing, probably my new Krista Street favorite. The Fire Wolf is the perfect alphahole; rude,opportunist, and arrogant but it’s not really all he he is and I like that Tala is a total boss and I love that she’s the farthest thing from a damsel in distress. And the spice is 🥵 I would recommend this to anyone who loves spicy 🌶 PNR.
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184 reviews5 followers
January 5, 2024
Not an amazing or super well written book, but it was very entertaining
Profile Image for Imee Benzon.
488 reviews21 followers
March 7, 2024
*** Amazing read***

I loved this book, it's fast paced and the fmc can kicked ass. Firewolf grrrr he is a swoon worthy mc. Can't wait for book 2
322 reviews2 followers
July 13, 2024
New series new author
Profile Image for KC Ray.
15 reviews
January 31, 2025
Good book. Fast, fluffy read that required no mental processing on my part which was just what I wanted. Will read the other books in the series.
12 reviews1 follower
September 23, 2025
This was good, starting the next book now . It’s little bits that i was like “this is unnecessary” lol but anywho .
Profile Image for Jaime Runyon.
22 reviews
April 17, 2024
so good.

I have never read this author before. But I really loved this book and I am really picky. If the rest are this good I will be so happy.
Profile Image for Lacey.
73 reviews
February 29, 2024
Oh man. This book was FUN. it was interesting, it had spice (but not too much). It was funny.

I read this free on kindle unlimited, and if you know anything about KU, good books are few and far between. They exist, but are SO hard to find. I liked this book, and I don’t know if it’s everyone’s cup of tea, mostly because outside of the two main characters, everything is just sort of glossed over. There’s not much depth to the outside world, and while that doesn’t bother me too much, I know a lot of other readers get upset when side characters and world building aren’t deep.

Starting with Tala’s sister, Tessa, it’s said she’s known for disappearing and eludes to her being an inconvenience a lot of the times because of if, yet you don’t actually see that person that’s described. She seems fine to me until the “police force” refuse to help due to the other 3 times Tessa has vanished and come back on her own, which is why Tala had to hire a hunter. It’s a good plot device, but again, Tessa doesn’t seem like she’s that kind of person. You are just told she is.

Also you know next to nothing about their parents because they died when they were young. Know nothing about any other family.

I think the author should’ve expanded a little more on that, and maybe she does in the other books but I have yet to see.

Really my only complaint.

I will say Fire Wolf (which is annoying to have him called that the entire book instead of his real name) is an ass hole. Which he’s supposed to be. But I feel like his douche bag-ness was well balanced and he wasn’t overly an ass hole. A lot of ass hole men turned lover in books are always too much of one where they’re like, borderline abusive. And very toxic. While Fire Wolf did some … bad things and he definitely shouldn’t have done one of them, it makes him flawed. And maybe he’ll apologize for it in the future.
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