Library
Maghanap
Home / Werewolf / Raven Hollow Mysteries: Moonbound Secrets / CHAPTER 3 The Wolf Sheriff

Share

CHAPTER 3 The Wolf Sheriff

Author: Chrystie Kilbourn-Terry
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-09-04 00:58:12

Lucas Stone steps into the heart of the trouble with more on his shoulders than just a new badge.

The silver star pinned to his coat catches the morning light too bright, too clean for a place like Raven Hollow, where nothing stays untouched for long. It stands out against him in a way that feels temporary, as though the shine will dull soon enough. The weight behind it, however, already has. It settles into him easily, familiar in a way that has nothing to do with the metal itself.

He carries
Patuloy na basahin ang aklat na ito nang libre
I-scan ang code upang i-download ang App
Nakaraang Kabanata Susunod na kabanata
Locked Chapter

Pinakabagong kabanata

  • Raven Hollow Mysteries: Moonbound Secrets   CHAPTER 28 What Drives Them

    Hours slip by as Evelyn and Lucas continue tracing the records.One document leads to another family name branching across generations, each connection opening into something wider, more complex. Birth certificates. Marriage licenses. Property deeds. Fragments of lives carefully recorded, carefully preserved.At first, the pattern is difficult to see. Then it isn’t. A name appears, then shifts. Reappears somewhere else, altered just enough to avoid notice. Lines split, reconnect, disappear, and surface again decades later under something new.What once felt like scattered inconsistencies begins to align. One connection leads to another. Then another. Then another. Until the truth stops being something they are searching for and becomes something they cannot ignore.Evelyn stills, her hand hovering over the page as the final piece settles into place.“The child,” she says quietly.Lucas looks up. “What?”She doesn’t take her eyes off the records. “Lucien’s daughter.”A slow realization

  • Raven Hollow Mysteries: Moonbound Secrets   CHAPTER 26 Buried Secrets

    For a long moment, neither of them speaks. The discovery settles in slow and heavy, as a stone dropped in deep water, pulling at everything around it.Then Evelyn moves. Not toward another book. Not toward another answer. Toward the ledger. The one with Celeste’s handwriting. Her fingers move faster now, the old hesitation gone. She scans the margins, the notes she’d read before but never quite understood, not until now.Lucas watches her, tension building. “What are you looking for?”“She knew,” Evelyn says under her breath. “She had to.”“Evelyn ”“Look.”She stops on a page and turns it toward him.At first glance, it looks like the rest of the theoretical fragments, scribbled references to old books. But now, after everything, the meaning feels different. The language is no longer speculative.It’s precise.Intentional.There are corrections in the margins, small changes to symbols, notes about timing and alignment, little reminders about thresholds.Not questions.Refinements.Lu

  • Raven Hollow Mysteries: Moonbound Secrets   CHAPTER 25 A Darkness Revealed

    The discovery begins with something small. A single inconsistency. That Evelyn almost missed it.She sits hunched over the birth records, the paper thin and yellowed beneath her hands, ink faded to a whisper. Three centuries of names and dates, all lined up in careful script. She had come here searching for answers about the town's beginnings, and maybe about her own family's quiet secrets. It’s only when her eyes drift over a gap, a space where something should be, that she pauses. It’s the kind of thing you could miss if you weren’t looking for it.A name appears in one record. Then vanishes in the next. No death noted. No marriage. No transfer. Nothing to explain the absence. Just… gone. As if someone intended it that way.“Lucas.” Her voice cuts through the quiet, sharper than intended.He looks up immediately. “What is it?”Evelyn slides the page toward him, her finger marking the line. “Look at this.”Lucas leans in, scanning the entry. The name is unfamiliar.Lucien Voss.He fr

  • Raven Hollow Mysteries: Moonbound Secrets   CHAPTER 24 Rallying Raven Hollow

    Rain slips down in steady lines as Lucas and Evelyn linger at the edge of the square, half-hidden beneath the awning of the old bakery. They watch Celeste address the crowd, her words threading through the hush that always settles when the weather turns. Lanterns spill their light across the slick cobblestones, reflections shifting with every drop. The drizzle softens the edges of the town, muffling the usual evening chatter. In the center, Celeste stands beneath her umbrella, untouched by the storm, as if the rain knows better than to trouble her. Her voice carries clearly through the damp air. “We must trust one another now more than ever.” The crowd leans in, heads dipping, shoulders easing as if they’ve been holding their breath all week. Relief flickers across familiar faces, something close to hope, though no one quite dares to name it. Lucas stands close beside Ev

  • Raven Hollow Mysteries: Moonbound Secrets   CHAPTER 23 Uncovering Motives

    For the first time, something like a motive starts to take shape, though it’s quieter than anger or spite. What sits beneath is a kind of worn-out protectiveness, the sort that settles in your bones after too many years of watching over the same streets. Celeste has always tried to keep Raven Hollow safe. She remembers the night everything nearly came apart. Rain hammered against the windows, and the smell of smoke seeped in from the orchard as sirens echoed up the hill. She remembers how helpless she felt, trapped outside the old chapel while the shadows grew long and frantic voices called from across the square. That memory never really left. Every warning since, every new crack in the old seal, brings that night back. The cracks have deepened. She’s seen what happens when old mistakes circle back around. She wants to understand the spirit, not for herself, but because she can’t look away from the damage, can’t ignore the way the threat pres

  • Raven Hollow Mysteries: Moonbound Secrets   CHAPTER 22 Connecting the Dots

    They don’t wait. Night settles over Raven Hollow. Evelyn and Lucas slip out before the last porch light flickers off, drawn by the promise and the threat hidden in the old map Evelyn found in her grandmother's trunk. They cannot let another night pass with questions gnawing at them, not with the burden of Miriam's disappearance shadowing every step. Evelyn keeps the map close, fingers pressed to the worn paper like it might vanish if she lets go. They follow the map in silence, slipping down narrow paths where the streetlights don’t quite reach. Each step takes them farther from what they know. The trees lean in, the air grows heavy, and the ground feels stubborn, as if it’s guarding something it won’t let go. “This is it,” Lucas says quietly, stopping near a cluster of stone half-swallowed by earth and roots.

Higit pang Kabanata

Maaari mong magustuhan

Galugarin at basahin ang magagandang nobela
Libreng basahin ang magagandang nobela sa GoodNovel app. I-download ang mga librong gusto mo at basahin kahit saan at anumang oras.
Libreng basahin ang mga aklat sa app
I-scan ang code para mabasa sa App
DMCA.com Protection Status