Love Triangles are the Best!

 Audiobook from Audible. Purchased for 1 credit. 

The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest. 

If you haven't read The Black Witch you are going to want to stop reading this now and go to that posting or get the book. The Iron Flower is book 2 in this series. Our dear Mage Gardner finds herself in more trouble as the politics and world leaders change. Along with those changes are horrible laws put into place to hurt the other species.

 Her Aunt is still bound determined that she will fast to Lucas. Mage Gardner even considers it herself at times because she feels her magic, that she cannot use, stir when he's around. Her magic even makes his more powerful for a time after they kiss. Lucas is moving up in the military which goes against everything she believes in when her friends start getting hurt. 

Oh but the kitchen boy who has always given her dirty looks from day one is starting to look at her differently. Could that be compassion instead of hate? As war breaks out they find themselves getting closer to one another. However, he's hiding something. She just hasn't been able to figure out what. I'm pretty sure she's falling in love with him but will the secret he's keeping make that impossible? 

A great book and for a sequel it did no disappoint. I feel that book 2 picked up where book one left off. There was over 18 hours of reading content. It is not a short read  and was well worth the credit I paid to purchase. Luckily there is a book 3 that I now have to get my hands on because I need to know what happens next!