Knot on Fire - Ember Hollow Book One - Small-Town Omegaverse Reverse-Harem Romance

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A small-town baker in Ember Hollow tries to preserve a quiet, locked-down life after grief and a late biological shift awaken her omega designation. Following a diagnosis and advice that normal cycles may arrive months or even years later, she doubles down on routine: baking, hiding her scent, and avoiding conversations that lead to scrutiny. As the days in her warm kitchen stretch into new awareness, her carefully managed solitude is forced to confront the cravings her body can no longer silence.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages221

Reading Time5 h 40 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Knot On Fire

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

KnotonFire A REVERSE HAREM OMEGAVERSE EMBER HOLLOW BOOK ONE [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) Contents Knot On Fire Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Also by Eve Newton [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) A small-town omegaverse reverse-harem romance [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com) One Wren THE TRICK to a quiet life is simple. Lock the door. Light the oven. Don’t give anyone in town a reason to learn your business. Three weeks in Ember Hollow, and I’ve nearly cracked it. It isn’t even six in the morning, and the bakery is warm, gold, mine. First batch of cinnamon rolls proving on the counter. Coffee on. Out on Main, a truck rumbles past, slow. Everything’s slow here, like the whole town ate too much dinner and needs a minute to recover. I take down Aunt Marigold’s recipe box and flip to the scones. Her handwriting is still in there, every card of it. Loops and slants and little notes in the margins that don’t help me even a bit. Use the good butter. As if I know which one that is. Don’t rush them, they can tell. As if a scone has feelings and a grudge. She left me the whole place when she died. The shop, the apartment over it, the sourdough starter older than I am, the regulars who still call me by her name half the time. I came up from the city for the funeral and just never left. Everyone back home thought I’d lost my mind. Maybe I had. But I stood in this little kitchen the morning after we buried her, and it was the first room in years that felt like it wanted me in it. I miss her so much, it sits in my throat some mornings. No time for that today, though. There’s a standing order of forty scones for the diner, and Della will have my hide if they’re late. The mixing I can do in my sleep by now. Flour, cold butter, the smell coming up warm and sweet. My hands know the work even when my head wanders off. That’s the best thing about this place. In here it’s only me. Nobody wanting anything. Nobody watching. Nothing to get wrong but the bake. Back in the city, I spent six years at a patisserie so upscale the butter practically had a passport, turning out two hundred identical croissants a day for a boss named Diane, who ran that kitchen like a submarine and still, six years in, wrote the wrong name on my schedule. I ran everyone else’s stations, smoothed everyone else’s disasters, and stood at the edge of everyone else’s photos. Nights I rode the train home to a third-floor walk-up that asked me nothing and gave me the same. Here I’m the woman who makes the cinnamon rolls. Turns out that’s the happiest I’ve been in a longtime. Or I would be, if my own body hadn’t decided, three weeks ago, to redo its paperwork without consulting me. Twenty-eight years as a beta. Twenty-eight years of nothing to declare, no scent, no cycle, no fuss, the biological equivalent of beige paint, and I mean that as a compliment, beige never ruined anybody’s life. Betas get to stand outside the whole overheated alpha-omega opera and just live, unbothered and unread, and I had built an entire personality on it. Then, the week after we buried Marigold, I went down with what I firmly decided was the flu. Three days of fever on the couch upstairs, aching like I’d been taken apart and put back together by someone working off bad instructions. On day four, the fever broke, and the world came back wrong. Loud. I could smell ra

FAQs

What is the premise of Knot on Fire in Ember Hollow?

A baker in a quiet small town maintains strict control over her life and scent after becoming an omega later than expected, setting the stage for tension between solitude and desire.

Why does the protagonist seek a doctor?

After weeks of illness and fever, her world returns “wrong” with heightened senses and an urgent “wanting” that she cannot ignore, leading her to medical testing.

How does she try to keep her omega designation private?

She avoids conversations, keeps her head down, and treats baking and routines as boundaries—since there is no locking a door on her scent, she relies on distance and control.

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