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I'm Mir. Welcome to my website. Whether you're here for the dragons, the daredevils, or the hopeless romantics, you're in the right place.
Fire Power is an adult sports romantasy novel filled with high-stakes dragon racing, irresistible passion, unforgettable villains, hot-headed heroes, magic, and courage. I can't wait to share it with you.
Coming out in Fall 2026 from Mountain Leopard Press in the U.K. and Little, Brown in the U.S.
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From Fire Power by Mir Benitz:
Asta lifted her hand to acknowledge the fans and caught a glimpse of the gesture mirrored on the big screens. Even the cameras had noticed her. The crowd went wild, their voices pulling Asta under their riptide. She wanted to laugh. And cry. So many people. So many. And every one of them, expecting something of her.
She hoped they would forgive her.
Blending the enemies-to-lovers competition of sports romance and the magical escapism of romantasy, Fire Power takes place during the Hallium City’s national championships of dragon racing: a high-speed, often deadly, elite sport with an unimaginably big cash prize.
Asta Ekenberg and her dragon Carmine are the underdogs coming into the tournament. No sponsors, no high-tech gear, no fans out in the stands. Not to mention that a female rider hasn’t won the Prix for nearly sixty years. But Asta is determined to prove to everyone who ever doubted her—the training school that kicked her out for fighting a classmate, her family who wished she’d never left the farm, and most of all, her infuriatingly handsome and arrogant childhood-best-friend-turned-rival Felix, the reigning tournament champion and poster-boy heir to the Seraphin racing dynasty—that she belongs at the Silverscale Grand Prix.
But raw talent alone won’t be enough to get Asta and Carmine through these races, and soon it becomes clear that the risks Asta has taken to get to Silverscale could have devastating consequences.
“Exhilarating, dangerous and a little bit sexy. The genre blend I didn’t know I needed.” —Hazel McBride, author of A Fate Forged in Fire