The night was like any other in Delta, crisp and clean, lending itself naturally to sniffing out intruders. George Ramsey knew his path like the back of his paw, winding through the streets of his community, always on the alert. It was a precaution taken after Sara Vail had disappeared. If somebody could take their favorite schoolteacher out from under their noses, nobody in Delta was safe. George had done his first midnight patrol a week after she vanished.
There had been rumblings for a while that maybe it wasn’t an intruder. Maybe the threat was a little closer to home. Dr. Joshua Ames wasn’t a shifter, after all, and outsiders weren’t to be trusted, no matter who they were sleeping with. But George had squelched that gossip at every corner. “You don’t live next door to them,” he’d arg
