Born To Burn: Firecasters Series, #1

By Vashti Valant

Firecasters can start fires with their minds. Most people don’t realize they exist. Some fear them. Some want to control them. And the only way to channel their power is through intense sexual bonding…

Shar had no idea she was a Firecaster until a brutal attack unleashed her power. Now a rugged, handsome man named Dax warns her she has to learn to control her power… and the only way to do it is to submit her body to intense sexual training. The training opens Shar to new levels of passion she’s never imagined, but she also starts falling, and falling hard, for Dax. Unfortunately, after a tragedy in his own past, Dax has sworn never to fall in love with a trainee….

This is a NOVELLA. It is the first Stand-Alone novella in the steamy Paranormal Romance Firecasters series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Misque Press
• Release date: Aug 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516388745

Book preview

Chapter One

Ah wouldn’t imagine that you’d be too happy to see mah face agin, he hissed, holding one hand across Shar’s chest and the other over her mouth. So ah’ll gist keep you turned in the direction of your new boyfriends, continued Ray, her parolee ex-boyfriend, whom she had helped send to prison two years ago.

Shar squirmed in his grasp, fighting down the bile rising in her throat, and the anger that could threaten to engulf her if she didn’t control it. God knows it had gotten her into enough trouble over the years, beatings and scorn, and a life of being shunted from foster home to home after the authorities removed her from being a plaything for her abusive stepfather.

Hold it down, can’t let it engulf me, she thought desperately, there’s gotta be a way out. Remembering that only Bad Things happened when she let the anger take over, Shar panted furiously, trying to control herself.

Just ten minutes ago, she had been dancing mindlessly to the thrumming hard rock at Southern Comfort, one of the older dance clubs in downtown Atlanta. Dancing to forget the latest bad breakup from the cheating asshole she had just dumped. She caught him, actually caught him, with another woman at his apartment, and then he tried to turn the tables by flying into a jealous rage over her breaking up with him. What gall!

She had always been attracted to the bad boys, the rough-around-the-edges anarchists, the rebels, but this guy was more edge than substance and he had to go. He had threatened to get back at her for leaving, but she had determined that she would not allow his shadowy threats to cage her in fear and worry, so she danced. Danced to forget everything.

She wouldn’t even be here except that her roommate Jean, whom she’d come with, had gone home with someone, leaving Shar to walk alone to her car through the unsavory neighborhood. That was when the two thugs grabbed her and dragged her around the corner into the alley where Ray was waiting.

You fucked up mah life good, bitch, and now ah’m gonna fuck up yours, Ray growled into her ear, squeezing one of her breasts cruelly. Shar kicked backwards at him, but in her platform heels, couldn’t get much driving force as he bent her backward.

Meet my friends, Plug ‘n Fug. Ah invahted them to have some fun with the cunt who sent me up, oh those two long years ago... he continued, and out of the darkness stepped two gigantic males, nasty lustful looks on both their faces.

Ah’m gonna give them a chance to do what they want with you, ‘cause ah’m done, don’t wanna dip my junk into that cunt again...Ah’m just gonna watch...and take some pretty pitchers. Gonna put them on the web for ever’one to see, maybe even make a few bucks, ‘cause yer gonna look soooo sexy gettin’ plugged, he drawled in his loathsome, nasal twang.

Fug, one of the behemoths, put a gag in her mouth, tied her elbows together behind her back, and held her from behind, leaving Ray free now to step around her and get out his smartphone. Plug ripped open the neckline of her dress to her waist, and roughly pulled down the cups of her bra, making her C-cup size breasts with their big, cherry nipples jut upward enticingly. Putting his mouth on one, he sucked hard and teased the other, rolling it between his thumb and forefinger, before yanking it outward and letting go.

Snaking his hand up under her short baby-doll dress, he roughly snatched away her thong, while avoiding her kicking heels.

Jeez, hold her still, man! he uttered breathlessly, as Shar looked down and saw the bulge in his pants, knowing