title: Stars in the Desert: A Novel
author: Crying Wind
description: Crying Wind has written bestselling books such as CRYING WIND and MY SEARCHING HEART. She is the author of five books but this is her first romance novel published by Indian Life Books. A freelance author of short stories and an accomplished painter, Crying Wind is a mother and grandmother and makes her home in the greater Seattle area.
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  # The Wrath of the Fury
  
  
  ### An Elementals Short Story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Michelle Madow
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **FREE BOOK OFFER:** At the end of this short story, there are instructions
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  # Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Why did we have to come all the way out to the desert to see this thing?”
  Kayla asked, leaning back on the blanket we’d laid out and gazing up at the
  star filled sky. “It’s not like the comet won’t be here if we watch from
  home.”
  
  
  I shivered and took a sip of my still steaming latte—I was glad Kayla and I
  stopped at Starbucks on our way over to the park—and nodded. The desert in the
  middle of January in Las Vegas was freezing.
  
  
  “Because we’re supposed to experience this together, out in nature where we’re
  more in touch with the energy connected to the comet,” Garrett said as he
  joined us on the blanket. The moonlight