Nightshade Keri Lake Novels & Stories

“Alpha Gideon, you should hear Lisa. She may have found the key to your mate's hidden scent.” Gideon’s gaze snapped toward Lisa, who nodded. Earlier, Angela’s scent had vanished as though it had never existed. But after hours of searching, she had finally uncovered something. “Did you find her?” Gideon raced toward her and held her shoulders, demanding. “Tell me.” Lisa exchanged a glance with Alpha Jacob as Orion stepped aside. Jacob silently urged her to speak. “No,” she admitted. “But I know the most likely place where Kesha will perform the Witch Ceremony, the night after tomorrow.”

“Keep this between us until she is mine. I can’t let anyone know until she is under my protection.” “Yes Alpha.” Ethan said as he left to go to the cabin. About twenty minutes later Shawn rushed into my office, “They are closing in on her scent.” “Where are they at now?” I ask as I stood up to follow him. “She’s on the outskirts of pack land near Bridge Road.” Shawn told me and my wolf started to growl and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to hold him back much longer. Kera was going after our mate once again and I didn’t stop her from leaving. If anything happens to her it’s blood on my hands for not protecting her.

I asked, feeling a surge of pride that Zarek had managed to defend himself. "That’s the thing... Kane and I are ninety-five percent sure Zarek has no clue how to get back to our pack. He ran the opposite direction and ended up jumping off a cliff into the lake that leads to Twilight River. You know, the lake with the waterfall? It's just outside North River territory, but it's pretty well known.”

“Heartbreaking.” “Absolutely tragic,” Vanessa murmured, barely hiding her grin. My dad did the same, but they both ended up snickering. Dad really loves vanessa. But how could he not? “You should see the lake too,” I added. “Silver Lake. It’s up in the north part of the property, past the tree line. Real peaceful this time of year. Water’s still as glass.” “That sounds incredible,” Macey said. “Do people swim in it?” “In summer. It’s cold as sin right now even though there’s no snow.”

I drank, and the scotch tasted like ashes. Elara POV Dawn came slowly, bleeding gray light across the dark landscape. We'd left the motorway behind, winding now through increasingly narrow roads that hugged the sides of hills and skirted dark expanses of water. The Lake District. Anne had finally told me where we were heading. A place called Keswick, a small town nestled among the lakes and mountains. Tourist destination in summer, quiet in winter. A good place to hide.

she said, with a nod toward me. We had honey for the hot-cakes, kind of an odd combo to me, but I was ravenous and it hit the spot. "What should I be doing this morning," I asked, slowly coming to life. "Me!" Jill cried out. "No, Me! Me!" Robin argued. I was still a little slow on the take. Looking on in awe as the two gorgeous ladies vied for my attentions. I could feel myself responding to the idea. "Down boy. They're teasing you. Take a dip in the lake, you stink of booze. Then take a ride up the trail and see how bad it's going to be getting out of here," Sheri told me.

“Go on.” “We identified a compound that traces back to the Nightshade black leaf,” he said. My brows furrowed. “Nightshade black leaf?” I repeated slowly. He nodded. “Yes, it’s a very poisonous leaf. Extremely lethal, even in small doses.” I sighed, rubbing my jaw. “I know about this plant. But we don’t have it here in Shadowfang. Neither does it grow in the neighboring packs or surrounding regions.” “You’re very correct,” Javier agreed, nodding solemnly. “It doesn’t grow here at all. Which is why this discovery is… concerning.”

She lowered her head respectfully toward Asher before turning her soft, mournful eyes to me. “Luna Livia,” Serena said, her voice dripping with gentle sorrow. “Please do not make this harder for the pack. I personally examined the Alpha’s remains. The poison in his veins was Night- shade root - a rare , volatile herb that grows only in the soil behind your cabin.I matched the toxin myself.” The crowd began to snarl again, the low rumble of wolfish anger rippling through the front lines. I stared at her, my blood running cold. “You lied. You weren't even in the courtyard when he collapsed. You were at the eastern border.”

The morning sun was really cozy. Kira woke up from her soft bed, stretching her stylish butt lazily in the sheets, arms stretching forward like a kitty just getting out of a snooze. As usual she slipped on a pure white tracksuit and headed to the backyard lake for some solo kayaking. Jason had already cleaned up and was waiting by the lake, left hand holding a water bottle, right arm carrying a clean towel, waiting for Kira to come ashore. “Gone. Every video of Jasmine insulting our hotel staff online is wiped clean. Keyword search, zilch.”

Needless to say, I picked up the pace matching stride with Trey pretty easily now. While running down the shoveled wooden trail it turned into ankle-high snow in the most shallow bits and knee-high in the deepest which heavily affected my ability to keep pushing forward. I was slowing down but so was Tiana and her zombie posse. Trey who had pulled a head shot a glance back at me and waited, starting to pull me along when I caught up. We passed about four cabins before he said anything. "What number of cabins are we?" I shot a look at the cabin to our left reading 778