Hearts and Diamonds

Prologue

Okay, so I've lived in Grayling, Alaska, all my life. So have my parents and my aunt.
Grayling is always cold and almost no one lives here. The wind is crazy and the temperature is crazy and the snow is always crazy. My life's pretty crazy too.
My family are all dog sled racers and wolf lovers and....crazy. My mother, Lani Eldon, met my father, Ryder Eldon when she was fourteen. My mom has a sister, Lily O'Brien, or as I call her Aunt Lil.
Anyway, other then my human family, I have a lot of dog and wolf family members. There's Ace; he's the old man of the pack. He's a timber wolf that my mom and dad found when he was about a year old. He was injured after being attacked by hunters. Ace was lead dog of my mom's sled team. They won the Iditarod dog race back in the day.
Ace had four pups. Their mother was Aunt Lily's old Scotch Shepard, Honey. The puppies names were Jack, Rosie, Little-Paw and Howler. All four served as sled dogs. Jack was chosen to have the next generation; he was the most like Ace. Jack had puppies with an Alaskan Husky named Sweet-Heart, who was owned by some fancy breeder. Mom and Dad kept one of the puppies, which they called Scarlett. Scarlett was trained to be a sled dog and then had a litter of her own with a local sled dog named Valentino. Mom and Dad sold most of the puppies, and one went to Valentino's owner, but they kept one. She belongs to me.
Her name is Red Diamond, or Diamond for short. She is a three year old Alaskan husky with a red coat. One day, I'd like he to be my lead dog. You know, when I get my own sledge.
Other then Ace, Honey, Jack, Rosie, Little-Paw and Howler, Mom and Dad had two other dogs that made up their original team. They were called Kiara and King and they were former mail dogs. Mom and Dad's current sled dog team is made up of eight dogs. Their names are Scarlett, Storm, Nikki, North, Angel, Ajax, Maxx and Minx. Each dog's partner's name has a matching first letter. Other then those dogs, my mom and dad still own Ace and Jack and I take care of Diamond.
My grandfather was a champion sled dog racer. His name was Thomas O'Brien. I'm named after him. Oh, yeah, my name is Adam Thomas Eldon, by the way. Anyway, my grandad's dog were all named after letters in the radio communication code, like Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc.
Aunt Lily doesn't like sled dog racing as much as mom and dad. She always goes to watch and she really likes mom and dad, she really likes the dogs too, she just says it's too dangerous for her. I think it's because my grandad died in a dog sled racing accident. That doesn't stop my mom from loving the sport though. She says that what hurts us makes us stronger and what makes us stronger is what make us unique.
Some day, I'd like to be a great dog sled racer like her...