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Learn English Through Story | Of Fire and Fate ESL Listen-Along Series | Chapter 9
Welcome to Of Fire and Fate — the ESL Listen-Along Series, where author Karen Hunter reads her own paranormal romance novel aloud, chapter by chapter, to help you grow your English through real adult storytelling.In this episode, Karen reads the ninth chapter. After the episode, we discus 5 vocabulary words, an idiom and a question related to the chapter.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE LISTENINGThis podcast contains readings from an adult novel.It is intended for listeners aged 18 and over.This book contains:✦ Explicit sexual content — intimate scenes between characters described in detail✦ Depictions of domestic abuse and psychological trauma✦ Violence✦ Pregnancy loss and child mortality✦ Themes of cult recovery and healing from traumaThe romance depicted is healthy and fully consensual, but the content listed above is present throughout the series. Please make an informed decision before listening, and please do not share this podcast with anyone under 18.If any of these topics are difficult for you personally, please take care of yourself first.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THE BOOKOf Fire and Fate is a paranormal romance novel by Karen Hunter.He is a dragon King searching for his fated mate.She is running from a monster she just cannot escape.Seraphine thought escaping her abusive husband would end the nightmare — but her past refuses to stay buried. In the seaside town of Wavecrest, her fragile new peace is shattered when Draven walks into her café. Impossibly warm. Dangerously powerful. And utterly convinced she is his destined mate.His kingdom is dying. Her past is hunting her. And the cult that tortured her is coming to take her back.Draven will burn the world down to protect her. But the mate-bond must be chosen, not claimed. And Seraphine is not ready to trust a man who makes her feel again.Genre: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy RomanceSpice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of 5Content: Explicitly sexual — adults only━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎓 ABOUT THE ESL SERIESThis series is designed for upper intermediate to advanced English learners — approximately B2 to C1 on the CEFR scale.Each episode includes:✦ A full chapter reading by the author✦ Vocabulary highlights from that chapter✦ Idiom explanations✦ A discussion question to practise your thinking in EnglishYou do not need the book to enjoy this series — you can simply listen. But if you want to read along, Of Fire and Fate is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOKAvailable on Amazon — paperback and Kindle eBook:Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Mt1wM2 Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/48Y26c7 Also available on other Amazon sites, just search Of Fire and Fate by Karen Hunter
25 May 2026
Learn English Through Story | Of Fire and Fate ESL Listen-Along Series | Chapter 8
Welcome to Of Fire and Fate — the ESL Listen-Along Series, where author Karen Hunter reads her own paranormal romance novel aloud, chapter by chapter, to help you grow your English through real adult storytelling.In this episode, Karen reads the seventh chapter. After the episode, we discus 5 vocabulary words, an idiom and a question related to the chapter.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE LISTENINGThis podcast contains readings from an adult novel.It is intended for listeners aged 18 and over.This book contains:✦ Explicit sexual content — intimate scenes between characters described in detail✦ Depictions of domestic abuse and psychological trauma✦ Violence✦ Pregnancy loss and child mortality✦ Themes of cult recovery and healing from traumaThe romance depicted is healthy and fully consensual, but the content listed above is present throughout the series. Please make an informed decision before listening, and please do not share this podcast with anyone under 18.If any of these topics are difficult for you personally, please take care of yourself first.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THE BOOKOf Fire and Fate is a paranormal romance novel by Karen Hunter.He is a dragon King searching for his fated mate.She is running from a monster she just cannot escape.Seraphine thought escaping her abusive husband would end the nightmare — but her past refuses to stay buried. In the seaside town of Wavecrest, her fragile new peace is shattered when Draven walks into her café. Impossibly warm. Dangerously powerful. And utterly convinced she is his destined mate.His kingdom is dying. Her past is hunting her. And the cult that tortured her is coming to take her back.Draven will burn the world down to protect her. But the mate-bond must be chosen, not claimed. And Seraphine is not ready to trust a man who makes her feel again.Genre: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy RomanceSpice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of 5Content: Explicitly sexual — adults only━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎓 ABOUT THE ESL SERIESThis series is designed for upper intermediate to advanced English learners — approximately B2 to C1 on the CEFR scale.Each episode includes:✦ A full chapter reading by the author✦ Vocabulary highlights from that chapter✦ Idiom explanations✦ A discussion question to practise your thinking in EnglishYou do not need the book to enjoy this series — you can simply listen. But if you want to read along, Of Fire and Fate is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOKAvailable on Amazon — paperback and Kindle eBook:Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Mt1wM2 Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/48Y26c7 Also available on other Amazon sites, just search Of Fire and Fate by Karen Hunter
18 May 2026
Learn English Through Story | Of Fire and Fate ESL Listen-Along Series | Chapter 7
Welcome to Of Fire and Fate — the ESL Listen-Along Series, where author Karen Hunter reads her own paranormal romance novel aloud, chapter by chapter, to help you grow your English through real adult storytelling.In this episode, Karen reads the seventh chapter. After the episode we discus 5 vocabulary words, an idiom and a question related to the chapter.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE LISTENINGThis podcast contains readings from an adult novel.It is intended for listeners aged 18 and over.This book contains:✦ Explicit sexual content — intimate scenes between characters described in detail✦ Depictions of domestic abuse and psychological trauma✦ Violence✦ Pregnancy loss and child mortality✦ Themes of cult recovery and healing from traumaThe romance depicted is healthy and fully consensual, but the content listed above is present throughout the series. Please make an informed decision before listening, and please do not share this podcast with anyone under 18.If any of these topics are difficult for you personally, please take care of yourself first.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THE BOOKOf Fire and Fate is a paranormal romance novel by Karen Hunter.He is a dragon King searching for his fated mate.She is running from a monster she just cannot escape.Seraphine thought escaping her abusive husband would end the nightmare — but her past refuses to stay buried. In the seaside town of Wavecrest, her fragile new peace is shattered when Draven walks into her café. Impossibly warm. Dangerously powerful. And utterly convinced she is his destined mate.His kingdom is dying. Her past is hunting her. And the cult that tortured her is coming to take her back.Draven will burn the world down to protect her. But the mate-bond must be chosen, not claimed. And Seraphine is not ready to trust a man who makes her feel again.Genre: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy RomanceSpice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of 5Content: Explicitly sexual — adults only━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎓 ABOUT THE ESL SERIESThis series is designed for upper intermediate to advanced English learners — approximately B2 to C1 on the CEFR scale.Each episode includes:✦ A full chapter reading by the author✦ Vocabulary highlights from that chapter✦ Idiom explanations✦ A discussion question to practise your thinking in EnglishYou do not need the book to enjoy this series — you can simply listen. But if you want to read along, Of Fire and Fate is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOKAvailable on Amazon — paperback and Kindle eBook:Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Mt1wM2 Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/48Y26c7 Also available on other Amazon sites, just search Of Fire and Fate by Karen Hunter
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