Iron Falls - The Healer's Price
(2026)(The fourth book in the Iron Creek Bears series)
A novel by Wolf Specter
He buried his mate three years ago. His bear has not shifted since.
Cole Reeves used to be the steady one. Alpha enforcer of a small Colorado clan, mediator in a hundred disputes, a man whose bear ran golden and patient. Then Mari died on a rural highway and the bear went quiet and Cole has been drifting ever since, running a consulting business out of Denver and sleeping alone in a house that still smells like her.
When an old Wisconsin contact calls asking for help, Cole takes the job. Iron Creek needs a shifter contract lawyer. Their former Vane bears are being threatened by inherited legal obligations, and the clan doesn’t have the expertise to fight it. Six weeks of work. In and out. No complications.
He doesn’t expect the quiet omega at the general store counter who sits down the moment Cole walks through the door.
Wren Ashby reads people. Literally.
Wren’s gift is the emotional weight carried in a person’s scent. He can feel grief, guilt, joy, the ache of a failing marriage, the specific frequency of a bear that hasn’t shifted in months. He has spent seven years learning to filter, to wall off, to survive the constant hum of other people’s lives.
He has never felt what Cole Reeves makes him feel. Call and response. Recognition. A weight so specific it reads like a door opening in a house Wren did not know he had.
Wren does not want a mate. He has built his life around not wanting a mate. His gift shows him too much of what other people carry, and he has spent a decade protecting his interior for exactly this reason.
But Cole keeps showing up. At Rosy’s store. On the path between their cabins. At the courthouse where they fight together to protect the absorbed Vane bears. And when Elias Vane arrives in Iron Creek with contracts and smooth words and a bear dormant so deep even Wren can barely scent it, the legal fight becomes something bigger.
A widowed alpha who has stopped believing he can love.
An omega whose gift is too precise for romance.
And a clan whose enemies are not finished with them yet.
Iron Falls is Book 4 of the Iron Creek Bears series. It features a slow-burn MM bear shifter romance with mpreg, hurt/comfort, found family, and the beginning of a new arc that will change Iron Creek forever.
For readers who loved Iron Creek, Iron Ridge, and Iron Blood — and for anyone who has ever wondered what happens after the war is won, when two quiet people with too much history meet at a store counter in the middle of a Maine November.
Can be read as a standalone, but best enjoyed after Books 1-3.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Cole Reeves used to be the steady one. Alpha enforcer of a small Colorado clan, mediator in a hundred disputes, a man whose bear ran golden and patient. Then Mari died on a rural highway and the bear went quiet and Cole has been drifting ever since, running a consulting business out of Denver and sleeping alone in a house that still smells like her.
When an old Wisconsin contact calls asking for help, Cole takes the job. Iron Creek needs a shifter contract lawyer. Their former Vane bears are being threatened by inherited legal obligations, and the clan doesn’t have the expertise to fight it. Six weeks of work. In and out. No complications.
He doesn’t expect the quiet omega at the general store counter who sits down the moment Cole walks through the door.
Wren Ashby reads people. Literally.
Wren’s gift is the emotional weight carried in a person’s scent. He can feel grief, guilt, joy, the ache of a failing marriage, the specific frequency of a bear that hasn’t shifted in months. He has spent seven years learning to filter, to wall off, to survive the constant hum of other people’s lives.
He has never felt what Cole Reeves makes him feel. Call and response. Recognition. A weight so specific it reads like a door opening in a house Wren did not know he had.
Wren does not want a mate. He has built his life around not wanting a mate. His gift shows him too much of what other people carry, and he has spent a decade protecting his interior for exactly this reason.
But Cole keeps showing up. At Rosy’s store. On the path between their cabins. At the courthouse where they fight together to protect the absorbed Vane bears. And when Elias Vane arrives in Iron Creek with contracts and smooth words and a bear dormant so deep even Wren can barely scent it, the legal fight becomes something bigger.
A widowed alpha who has stopped believing he can love.
An omega whose gift is too precise for romance.
And a clan whose enemies are not finished with them yet.
Iron Falls is Book 4 of the Iron Creek Bears series. It features a slow-burn MM bear shifter romance with mpreg, hurt/comfort, found family, and the beginning of a new arc that will change Iron Creek forever.
For readers who loved Iron Creek, Iron Ridge, and Iron Blood — and for anyone who has ever wondered what happens after the war is won, when two quiet people with too much history meet at a store counter in the middle of a Maine November.
Can be read as a standalone, but best enjoyed after Books 1-3.
Genre: Paranormal Romance