Iron Lake Novels & Stories

She pulled a magenta crayon with slow precision from its box. “Dead skunk laying in the highway, hon,” he lied. “Smells bad, huh?” “A little.” Richard followed US Route 20 along with the other traffic going west. He noticed it had begun to rain, so he clicked on the wipers. In the overcast distance he saw an exit sign coming up fast: IRENE EXIT 1C BLACKWATER VAL ¼ MILE ROCKFORD ¾ MILE

"Lots of voices actually." The girl didn't seem to mind his random chatter and nodded thoughtfully. "Holly is barbed, has berries as red as blood and poisons the blood if consumed. Ivy chokes and kills others in its way. They are seen as lucky in your whimsical world but they are cruel. And those attributes are used in dark magic." She looked over his shoulder and into the darkness. The trees waved but no breeze touched them and her eyes became even sterner.

I watched has prince Liam shifted into his giant form and pluck the fruit for me. He reduced back and gave it to me " thank you" I said. "Come there's one more thing I want to show you" he said to me . Prince Liam took me to a different place entirely. The place was a little dark and surrounded by tall trees. There was a river in-between the trees, a kinda blue water. We stood at the bank of the river. "This river is called healing river , it does two things" he said. " What two two things does it do" I asked curiously.

The cottage is located at the waterfalls at the suburbs. The reason he joined the wolf hunting agency was to stop the wolves from coming at the humans. Then Tartal was still the alpha. Mr Carson found out a lot how to kill a wolf because he was a scientist but the good one. From the body of a murdered wolf, you know a wolf can kill another wolf...so he took blood from the dying wolf that couldn't make it alive and was able to test his theories with the blood only to come to a conclusion that the silver everyone talked about in the movie was partly correct.

It is pretty grand so we hold events here sometimes as it makes a great impression, there was also a den with a television and huge U shaped sofa, an office and a library. The room mom had picked for Iris had a huge king sized solid wooden sleigh bed, modern furniture with a rustic twist, a seating area with a sofa and television. There are doors that open out onto a small balcony with an outdoor seating area overlooking the lake. It had its own en suite that contained a huge free standing tub, a shower sink and toilet, all decorated in clean crisp whites and greys. Mom had draped over the bed our family patchwork quilt. It had been in our family for generations each generation had sewn some

Malachi and Levi drove to the Council ranch in silence. Levi had spent two full days silencing the Mexican cartel in Anaheim, making sure there would be no blow back to Kai. The Council’s ranch, in Montana, was located on Bitterroot Lake. It was built on the river with groves of trees flanking the house. It had wide open spaces, and it was quiet. The Council held meetings there, and once or twice, they’d invited future Council Alphas to the ranch.

"Oh a lot of homeowner's to-do list stuff. There's a list of stuff I'll pick up in Portland and then I can finish some projects when I come back. Let's both pray for good weather and no conferences for next weekend." "I'll pray for that." "When will you be home?" "We'll be leaving Bend at about noon on Monday. I figure we'll be back in Trout Lake by dark." "I'll be thinking about you as we're both on the road Monday." "I'll think of you too." She sounded sincere. I was torn. What was going on? Would she plead the "I was lonely" defense? Would she accept fault or attempt to hand it to me? Over the next few hours at home I looked for and thought about how I could get the evidence we needed. I

As dad goes through his questions, I think to offer to punish Kaiya, but he refuses me, for now. Dad banishes Kaiya from the pack and sentences her to five years’ imprisonment in The Iron Keep in Red Fields. I have only been to the place once, but it is a place rumored to be stained red from blood, when in fact the red is due to the high iron content in everything from the stones to the water. Even the soil takes on a red hue and the trees that grow there are gnarled and twisted. The Iron Keep is the most brutal werewolf prison in our region, but this is not enough punishment. As I watch Rebecca get placed on a stretcher and Kaiya’s limp form dragged away, I turn and whisper to Dylan, “I sho

"What kind of stone is this?" Iro was more than happy to show off his knowledge again. "This is iron. We've learned how to make it here - it's complicated,-" this time there was a snort from the silent tiger in the corner. "We started off making armor only with it, but we've found it's useful for pots and household items. It's strong like stone, but you heat it and mold it, instead of carving it, and you can make it very thin. It's still heavy, but Anna could pick this pot up if she needed to, where a stone pot could only be picked up my men.

I think about the images that Luka showed us of figures lying in wait, concealed in the shadows. Do not lose concentration Sylvia Ironwolf, I tell myself. Fer whines at me. You know what you need to do, I tell her. Though silver's touch is lethal to us werewolves, iron is still stronger than silver. I reach for the iron and it answers. I allow it to enter Fer's marrow, strengthening her bones. It coats her nails and teeth, lengthening and sharpening them. Then I find the other iron, the part that exists in everthing, always, ever present, ever fluid. I find it in the molecules of the air and earth, in the cellulose of the trees. I call this too and it answers.