Wayward Secrets

My name is Cordelia Stone, and I want to die somewhere pretty.

That's how I ended up at Fallen Mountain. Lonely lakeshores, crumbling stone mountains all around me, and a forest, where I can wander into the deep when the time is right.

But even the terminally ill need to work, and I'm not dead yet. The Raven Brothers are the local guides, and they need someone to work in their camp supply store, booking hiking packages for tourists, and that sort of thing. It's the kind of job I can do for now, and they won't have too much trouble replacing me once I'm... gone.

They're not really brothers. That's the first thing I learn about them. Beau Raven, Kyron Hart, and Grady Ward might as well be related though, with how well they work together and are nearly always finishing each other's sentences. I understand why half the women in town are chasing after them, given that they seem to have a problem with keeping their shirts on most days.

It would be the whole town lusting after them, I think, except some of the women keep disappearing, into the woods, never to be seen again.

Fallen Mountain might not be the quiet place for my last few months on Earth I thought it would be...

And the Ravens not being blood-related is only one secret, the most tame one, that the brothers are keeping...