Blood and Fire Books in Order

Blood and Fire drops readers into a rougher fantasy world than some of Abby James's other series. Five years before the story begins, a Gate opened and released the worst of purgatory into the world. That one event changes everything. Life is harder, safety is scarce, and power has become a commodity.

At the center of it is Embry, who is being hunted for her blood and trying to stay free long enough to protect the people she cares about. She is not walking into a magical destiny with a supportive guide and plenty of time to prepare. She is already in danger when the series opens, already making choices under pressure, and already carrying secrets that other people would kill to uncover.

The dragons matter too.

Four dragon shifters, the last of their kind, are hunting the sorcerer who destroyed their people. That revenge plot gives the series its second engine. Embry is trying to stay hidden, while the shifters are trying to finish an old war, and the two paths crash into each other. Abby James uses that collision to build both the fantasy conflict and the romantic tension. Nobody enters the relationship from a neutral place.

What makes Blood and Fire interesting is the way it balances apocalypse-style damage with shifter romance. The world has already been scarred. Monsters are real. Old grudges are still active. At the same time, the story keeps tightening around questions of trust, desire, and what happens when the people who might save you are also capable of destroying you.

By the second book, the setup deepens rather than resets. Embry's blood, the shifters' grief, and the sorcerer's long shadow keep driving the story. If you like dragon fantasy with a darker survival streak, protective but dangerous heroes, and a heroine who has to stay sharp to stay alive, Blood and Fire is playing in that exact space.